With the new release of one of Bashful Book Bee’s favorite series, this week’s book of the week is Pete The Cat and His Magic Sunglasses by Kimberly and James Dean. Pete’s story is a collaborative effort with Pete the Cat illustrator James Dean and his wife Kimberly. 

 

The original four Pete the Cat books were created by author Eric Litwin and James Dean as illustrator. 

·         Pete the Cat I love My White Shoes

·         Pete the Cat Rockin in My School Shoes

·         Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

·         Pete the Cat Saves Christmas

The Pete the Cat series originated with James pet, a little black cat. Jame’s love of this little cat, and his love of art, have ballooned into quite a creative series.

 James has created another series around his little black cat….his holiday series…

·         Pete the Cat, The First Thanksgiving

·         Pete The Cat Big Easter Adventure

·         Pete the Cat Valentine’s Day is Cool

James also has Pete’s song books

·         Pete the Cat Wheels on the Bus

·         Pete the Cat Old MacDonald Had a Farm

James has even now started writing Pete books, that are part of the “I Can Read” series….

·         Pete at the Beach

·         Pete’s Big Lunch

·         Play Ball

·         Too Cool for school

If readers visit Pete’s publisher’s web site, teachers will find all kinds of down loads to accompany lessons with the books.

http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/feature/petethecat/

 What can Bashful say except… “Read Pete….he’s groovy”

 

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Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents and grandparents.

 

 

This week’s “BEELOVED” book of the week is in recognition of
“Texas Digital Citizenship Week.”  Educators across the state of Texas will be engaging students, teachers and families in your community to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly online.  To provide teachers with a great book to support internet critical thinking, Bashful Book Bee is recommending Toni Buzzeo’s book
“But I Read It On The Internet.”  In the creative style that Ms. Buzzeo uses with her writing and pictures, Mrs. Skorupski…the librarian shows students and other educators how to critique information, whether it is a book or an internet site.  The pictures are colorful and the story line is captivating.  The book presents great insight on whether or not a book is true and how to know if a web site is credible.  The book even presents a great chart for readers to use on how to evaluate a web site. 

 

 

 

Bashful’s other recommendation this week is a series of books to promote good habits in kids. Sean Covey has written the 7 Habits of Happy kids…. Book 1: Be Proactive: You’re in Charge… Book 2: Begin With the End in Mind: Have a Plan…    Book 3: Put First Things First: Work First, Then Play… Book 4: Think Win-Win: Everyone Can Win… Book 5:  Seek First to Understand: Listen Before You Talk…     Book 6:  Synergize: Together Is Better… Book 7: Sharpen the Saw: Balance Feels Best…                                and yes Sean is Stephen Covey’s sonJ

 

Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents and grandparents.

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Remember when teachers order books from “The Peppermint Pig” they will receive 15% off cover price when they mention Bashful Book Bee.

 

 This week Bashful Book Bee has found several sweet books for children. I would recommend all of them highly.  However, my “beeloved” book of the week is….

 

Glasswings, a butterfly’s story by Elisa Kleven

This sweet story introduces readers to a species of butterflies that most people will not know exists… that being a Glasswing butterfly..  These fragile creatures can be found in Central and South America. Because of their translucent wings, they are nearly invisible.  The art work in this book is beautiful.  The story however brings the element of love of family to its creation. The story then has an added twist by taking our character Claire on a scary trip away from her family.  However her new friends, an ant, ladybug, and pigeon, acclimate her to her new environment and help her survive.  The story further educates readers by teaching them how each of these creatures helps in the pollination process, natural pest control, and soil circulation… to help promote plant growth.  The story provides a happy ending (which Bashful Book Bee thinks is a must) by bringing her family to her new home. Bashful Book Bee believes all readers will love this story and pictures.

Other great read selections for this week are:

·         Millie and the Big Rescue by Alexander Steffensmeier-Great farm story, combining hide and seek, friendships of the farm animals, a woman farmer, and encouragement to take new looks at our homes.

·         Gabby by Joyce Grant-Is a fun silly story about alphabets and beginning word sounds, with great lesson suggestions for teachers in the back of the book.

·         When I was little by Jamie Lee Curtis-another of Ms. Curtis’s sweet stories. Simple words that tell a tale from the perspective of a preschooler on how things were when “she was little.”

·         Pirates love underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort…. What can I say... a silly story, but a definite win win for little boys… Pirates and underpants, they will love it. 

 

Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents and grandparents.

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This week Bashful Book Bee has found a series that will be great teaching tools.

The Animal Fairy Tales by Charlotte Guillain, are not only fun stories, but great lesson resources.  The author takes fairy tales and replaces the main characters with animals.  The rest of the story is very similar to the original fairy tales, but with the change in main characters a new story evolves. Teachers will be able to use the stories as great compare and contrast tools, as a foundation for fairy tale lessons, and even history lessons.  Each book tells the traditional fairy tale, but the new lead character creates new stories and at the end of each book the author provides the history of each original fairy tale.  As much as young children love animals, they will love these stories. 

 

·         Goldiclucks and the Three Bear… instead of a little Golden haired girl, we have a little gold chicken

·         Kitten who cried Dog…instead of a boy who cried wolf, we have a kitten who cries dog

·         Little Red Riding Duck… instead of a little brown haired girl, we have a little duck

·         Pandarella…instead of a young maiden, we have a Panda

·         Poodle and the pea…instead of a Princess, we have a poodle

 

 

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Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents and grandparents.

It’s officially FALL…. This week’s Bashful Book Bee recommendations are great books to share with children about the excitement of the season… With the cooler air the weather makes us all excited to anticipate the fun events we look forward to in October and November.  The changing of the leaves, the soft winds, we can feel the anticipation of our first fire in the fireplace.  I hope fall brings you joy.  Our selections of this week should provide you with great books to bring the fun of fall to your children. 

This week’s Bashful Book Bee “BEELOVED FEATURE book is:

 

How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow

by Wendell Minor

This book is a fun adventure using fourteen states, exploring many of their famous landmarks…while using various synonyms of the word BIG to describe the landmarks with size and scale words that are descriptive of the state. The pictures are colorful, the words are creatively fun.  This book will be great for descriptive writing and reading lessons, but a perfect book to use for building your newest fall social studies lesson.

 

Bashful Book Bee’s other weekly recommendations

1.    Wild Child by Lynn Plourde

…. A rhyming story of how Mother Earth’s wild child, Autumn,

bounces through the beautiful fall season.

2.    Will You Be My Friend? By Bernadette Watts

…Sweet little story around the traditional story of rebellious little rabbits going to the cabbage patch, to be saved from the cold by a gentle scarecrow.

3.    Miss Maple’s Seeds by Eliza Wheeler

….a gentle story of Miss Maple’s gathering, love and care of seeds from the fall, to provide new plants throughout the land next spring.

4.    Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage

…A counting book around all the traditional characters of Halloween.                                                                                                       

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Sept. 15 is International Dot day, so with that Bashful book bee's "Beeloved" book of the week is The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds.  While many may use this book as an Art lesson... I think in this story you will find much more.... courtesy, facing challenge, try and try again, never give up, do unto others.... Check it out I think you will find it's a must for every classroom.
Happy Reading...

1. The Monster who lost his mean by Tiffany Strelitz Habor

2.Caterina and the perfect party by Erin Eitter Kono

3. Charlie the ranch dog: Where's the Bacon by Ree Drummond, and Diane deGroat

4. A hole in the bottom of the sea by Jessica Law

YOO HOO Katie Woo

 

This week’s Bashful Book Bee’s "Beeloved book" of the week is a SERIES of books…

If you haven’t heard of Katie Woo, YOU must check her out~ Her very own Facebook page describes her as a spunky, sassy, and stylish school girl that readers will fall in love with!  Bashful Book Bee agrees.  Katie’s author, Fran Manushkin, has done a wonderful job with her series of books that now exceeds 25.  However, what I’m sharing today is her newest series Katie Woo “Star Writer.” This great series not only encourages students in writing…Katie also gives her reader’s writing tips.  Each book addresses a specific type of writing.  Katie describes the process and how to develop the content. Every language arts teacher can benefit from the skills that have helped Katie become a great writer.

Star Writer Series:

1.    It Doesn’t Need To Rhyme, Katie…Writing a Poem with Katie Woo

 

2.    Sincerely, Katie…Writing a letter with Katie Woo

3.    Stick to the Facts, Katie…Writing a Research Paper with Katie Woo

4.    What Do You Think, Katie?...Writing an opinion piece with Katie Woo

5.    What Happens Next, Katie…Writing a narrative with Katie Woo

6.    What’s in Your Heart, Katie?....Writing in a journal with Katie Woo

 

I hope when you use the Katie Woo books to teach children about writing, that this Star Writer Katie makes an unforgettable impression of these writing traits in your children.

 

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