Product Type: Books
Age: Early Elementary School Years
Categories: Concept Books
2008 Award
(by Rotraut Susanne Berner, Chronicle $16.99 Score:
) Remember your Richard Scary books with all the buy street scenes with so many small details to discover? This is a more European version with surprises in every window, upstairs and down. There are no words to read, except for signs. Each scene is crowded with realistic as well as whimsical characters do what they do. A splendid book for developing language and attention to details on a printer page. Children will enjoy talking about the things they see as well as browsing alone. An over-sized book that is perfect for lap time together and solo discoveries. 4-7.
Age: Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2008. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Award
(by Sara Gillingham, Chronicle $15.99 Score:
) Young baseball fans who may not otherwise be enchanted with an alphabet book, may be engrossed with this alphabetical tour of baseball words and objects. Combining old photos, illustrations and baseball words—this is sure to be a “hit” with little leaguers. 5 & up.
Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2009 Award
(by Jean Marzollo/ photos Walter Wick , Scholastic $16.99 Score:
) In a redesigned version of their I Spy Phonics, this updated book can be used with children of varying ages in different ways. Author Jean Marzollo gives parents helpful suggestions for encouraging kids to read the “rebus pictures in the text and find them in the big picture. Use it for developing rhyming skills, memory, and finally phonics. You’ll find the way kids enjoy this book changes as they are developing new skills. 4-8
Age: Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2009.
2009 Awards
(by David Goodman and Zoe Miller, Tate $22.5 Score:
) This big square book is full of colorful examples that introduce the basic concepts of geometric shapes. The bright photographs give you plenty to talk about as you share this with preschoolers and early school years children. There are some activities suggested...we would add the simple idea of giving children the three dimensional objects to hold in their hands to reinforce the shape concepts they can only look at in a book. 3-7
Age: Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2009.
2009 Award
(by David Goodman and Zoe Miller, Tate/Abrams $22.99 Score:
) This big square book is full of colorful examples that introduce the basic concepts of geometric shapes. The bright photographs give you plenty to talk about as you share this with preschoolers and early school years children. There are some activities suggested...we would add the simple idea of giving children the three dimensional objects to hold in their hands to reinforce the shape concepts they can only look at in a book. 3-7
Age: Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2002 Awards
(by Polly Alakija, Barefoot Books $16.99 Score:
) Ayoka was supposed to take care of the family goat. Oh, oh! That runaway goat has gone to the market! In a romp through a Nigerian market, this is a spirited counting book with details to explore on every page, including a sighting of that runaway goat! Lyrical African names and repetitive pattern makes for a fun read aloud! 2-6. Age: Toddlers,Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2002.
2003 Award
(by Saxton Freymann/illus. by Joost Elffers, Scholastic $12.95 Score:
) Combines word play and food play in a delicious little book of dogs made out of bananas, pears, peppers, and more. As always, this creative team makes fruits and veggies something kids enjoy!
Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Valeri Gorbachev, Philomel $15.99 Score:
) A charmingly patterned counting book in which Pig recounts (sorry) to his friend Goat why he got all wet during a rainy day in the forest. He runs into two porcupines, three buffaloes, four leopards, and five lions… you get the idea.
Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Virginia Miller, Candlewick $13.95 Score:
) With each turn of the page, Bartholomew plays under and in a beautiful old apple tree as a small story unfolds. Best of all, the apples on the tree turn red one at a time so there is something new to count at every turn. A concept book that's on the mark for 2–5. Age: Toddlers,Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
2003 Award
(by Karen Katz, Simon & Schuster $16.95 Score:
) Suppose you could make a hat for each month of the year. What would you put on them to reflect the season or important holiday? Done in charming collage with gouache and colored pencils, this is a book that should inspire young artists as well as introduce them to the names of the months of the year.
Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2003.
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