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The Night Before Mother's Day

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 The Night Before Mother's Day Title: The Night Before Mother's Day Author: Natasha Wing Illustrated by: Amy Wummer Teacher Evaluation: This is a great book for teachers to read to younger students before mother's day. It will teach them how they can pamper their amazing parents/ guardians. It would be important to children who may only have dads, or 2 parents of the same sex, or maybe in foster care. Just let them know they should thank someone who they are grateful for.  Summary: It was the night before mothers day and dad had a plan to get mom. out of the house. He put her sneakers by the door so her running friends would pass by soon. Mom left and they got to work. They started making cake with frosting, and fancy cards with coupons. When mom came home she found a mess, and she wondered what was wrong. The next morning they got her a giant bouquet and gave her all of her gifts. They pampered her all day. Dad made a gourmet brunch. they celebrated the best mom ever, an...
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Journey Through Japan

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  Title: Journey Through Japan Author: Richard Tames Genre: Informational nonfiction Ages:2 and up Teacher evaluation: I love this book for classrooms when we are studying Geography and get to Japan it would be a great book to use for any grade level to find out little information about the country that is very informative.  Summary: This book begins by giving the facts about Japan the size, population capital, cities, and landmasses or water parts. We begin to learn about Japan and how different it is from all other countries. They have a special language, food, art and clothing. Tokyo the capital of Japan is densely populated and it is very modern. The Sumida River is a river that you can take a double decker boat up to visit all different monuments and pieces of Japanese culture. Mount Fuji is the most famous mountain in Japan we learn all different facts about it. They also have 5 different lakes that experience freezing and warm temperatures. They have a bullet train that...
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This Old Man: Poetry

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 This Old Man Title: "This Old Man" Illustrated by: Carol Jones Genre: Poetry age group: 5-7  Teacher Evaluation: This is a good book when learning about things. You can point to the things he is drumming on. It is also teaching counting so it could be used for EC education when they are beginning to learn their numbers.  Summary: This old man plays with drum sticks, so he begins playing nick nack on a drum, shoe, knee, door, hive, sticks, heaven, gate, line, and a hen. He played "Nick nack paddy wack give a dog a bone" on all of these things while counting to ten, and rhyming. 
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