When I Feel Angry is part of a series of books written by child psychologist Cornelia Maude Spelmen to help children identify and understand their emotions. We have others in the series, including When I Miss You, When I Feel Scared, and When I Care About Others, but the book about anger is the one I turn to most often.
If you are like me, you know Patrick McDonnell mainly for his comic strip, Mutts, which records the adventures of Mooch the cat, his best friend Earl (a dog), and their human companions. But he also has several picture books, with whimsical art, simple text, and heart-warming stories to appeal to readers of all ages.
Somebody Else’s Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children is nearly unique on the Caterpickles bookshelves in that it does not contain stories written for children by adults, but stories told by children to adults. Or rather, one particular adult, Ruth Krauss.
Laura Seeger’s The Hidden Alphabet is a work of art posing as an alphabet book.
The Important Book By Margaret Wise Brown Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard HarperTrophy, 1989 Age Range: 4-8 The important thing about this book is that it is…
Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaurs! by Kathleen Kudlinski does a great job of showing how the theory of evolution applies to science itself. Strong hypotheses survive and multiply; weak ones die off.
Laurence Anholt’s Stone Girl, Bone Girl tells the story of Mary Anning, an extraordinarily prolific fossil hunter born in England in 1799.
Reading Prehistoric Actual Size to my daughter, I found myself placing my hands on the page very carefully, lest I snag my finger on a Baryonyx claw or accidentally touch the Very Large Cockroach. It’s not that the illustrations are so terribly life-like. They are clearly pictures. It’s just that the effect of seeing these creatures, or in most cases, bits of these creatures, at actual size is so startling.
In 1853, almost no one knew what a dinosaur looked like. No one had ever mounted a complete dinosaur skeleton, and who could imagine what these strange creatures would have looked like with muscles, skin, teeth, eyes, tails, and feet all in their proper places from just a heap of bones? In the Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, Barbara Kerley tells the story of the Victorian artist who, with the help of renowned scientist Richard Owen, brought dinosaurs to life for the people around him.
Of all the dinosaur books my daughter and I have read so far, Lenny Hort’s Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza?: Mysteries Science Hasn’t Solved may be our favorite. It packs a lot of information into very readable bursts of text.
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