Fantastic book about universality...the sun is there for all of us and the sun gives all of us life! The pictures are beautiful and take us on a tour around the world. When reading this aloud, this is perfect accompanied with a globe showing where all the countries mentioned are. The book begins and ends with MADAGASCAR/the rainforest. Very beautiful, very relatable.
Absolutely beautiful book for children of all ages. An example of a line from this poetic book: "If I was an apple and you were a worm you'd call me lunch and I'd call you squirm." Wonderful!
Julia Fogliano & Loren Long
Through a
collaboration with UW-Extension Outagamie County Money Smart week activities
happened across public libraries last week. Our volunteer from the committee
was Mia Peterson who works at Fox Cities Credit Union. She disseminated
resources to families during a regularly scheduled story time on April 7, 2025.
It was cool for children to walk away with banks to save their money in! For
years, with my strong background in children’s literature, I have studied books
that make sense for teaching money skills to young children. Many of the books
are just so-so. They teach the names and values of coins and currency, but they
do not teach healthy habits of dealing with and taking actions with money.
This year I hit the jackpot (ha-ha!)
with a series of books that have positive messages about how to work with money
AND have good stories. I highly recommend these! They are available to you
through Infosoup. (The series is Moneybunny; the author & illustrator is
Cinders McLeod) In each story carrots are the currency, and a bunny rabbit is
the main character.
A new addition
published in 2024!
Beautiful color book, I love the way that it is formatted. It won my heart with "red is for cordial"!!!
This board book is designed for our youngest readers! Introduce ANNE to the next generation!
I love that the picture book format is so well suited to telling a factual story. There are so many great picture books that take an overlooked piece of history and spin a yarn around it. This is a case in point, a story about how a stray cat won two blue ribbons at a cat show in a fancy hotel. The author and illustrator are sisters! The final two paragraphs of the author's note are delightful:
"It is the job of adults to make and change laws, but I think it's young people who change the culture. Children, like my fictional Louise and real-life you, are often able to see the world not as it is but as it should be.
Furry friends help, too. The year after the contest that inspired this story, Mr. Silver entered again and won six awards, including two first prizes, at the 1948 Greater St. Louis Cat Club Show. Hope sometimes comes on little cat feet."
A great book to think about opposites and differing
perspectives.
Sun knows only what happens during the day and Moon knows only
what happens during the night. Cloud comes along and offers sage advice: “stay
up a bit beyond your bedtime and see what it is like.” They each get to see the
human activities which change based on the time of day.
This is a very clever book. The hard part for young kids is
to think that both Sun and Moon could be correct simultaneously. This is too
hard for kids’ black and white thinking at a young age. I loved when I used
this for read aloud and kids were saying, “Moon is right” or “Sun is right”. And
they were so definite, adorable!
I used props with this book the second time around. They
helped with comprehension.
