What Is Supply and Demand? by Kelly Lee introduces children to the basic economic concepts of supply and demand through a simple and relatable story. The book follows Charlie, who owns a bakery that sells cookies and ice cream sandwiches. His bakery attracts many customers during summer but receives fewer customers during winter. Through Charlie's experience, children learn how changes in custo…
Money Sense for Kids! by Hollis Page Harman is an educational book that introduces children to money and basic financial management. It explains how money is produced, the features of paper currency and coins, and how money moves from the mint to banks and consumers. It also introduces practical financial skills, including opening a bank account, writing checks, using ATM cards, saving money, b…
This book examines fake news, bias, and the importance of media literacy in today's information environment. It helps young readers understand how misleading information and bias can influence news reporting and public understanding. The book encourages readers to evaluate information carefully, recognize potentially unreliable sources, and develop critical thinking skills when reading or viewi…
Discover more about the world under our feet. Beneath a tree live moles, rabbits and earthworms. Under bustling cities people visit shops and park their cars. Trains travel above and below the ground, carrying people through dark tunnels. Children can discover what goes on underground in this beautifully illustrated wordless book. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a compelling non-fiction series th…
Brave, brilliant and bold Billie B. Brown has started ballet classes. She wants to be a famous ballerina, but can she? One of a series full of down-to-earth, real-life, fun and funny stories that children can enjoy and relate to. With word art or illustrations on every second page, and no huge blocks of text or intimidating words, they're perfect for newly independent readers.
When a young bear finds a scrap of an old letter, he is so curious about the mysterious marks that he searches out their source—a cabin in the woods. There he meets a young woman and is mesmerized by the sound of her voice. Though he cannot understand her words, he returns every day to hear the woman's stories of sailors, goddesses, and far-off lands. Dennis Haseley's magical fantasy…
Juice Faulstich lives with her pa and ma and four sisters in the North Carolina hills. Working with her hands comes easy to Juice, but not school. This year, she's back again in Miss Hamble's third grade. Letters and numbers still don't make sense to her, even though she's the biggest kid in class.Juice skips school when she can, and spends the day with her pa. When he gets an official-looking …
Pandora has been warned about the forbidden jar. Although she is surrounded with gifts and has rooms, gardens, and a courtyard to explore, Pandora is drawn to one room--the one that holds that jar. Is Pandora’s curiosity a curse? In a seamless blend of prose and verse--and drawing from traditional mythological sources--Robert Burleigh dramatically tells Pandora's story for young readers. Com…
You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creatures together." Byrd Baylor's spare, poetic text and Peter Parnall's striking illustrations lime the sky, stone and sand of the desert in this haunt…
What's DIY Literacy? It's making your own visual teaching tools instead of buying them. It's using your teaching smarts to get the most from those tools. And it's helping kids think strategically so they can be DIY learners. "Teaching tools create an impact on students' learning," write Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts. "They help students hold onto our teaching and become changed by …