NCTE Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
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What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child?
Lots of noise!
Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the...
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It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food. When they get tired, they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is...
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Aunt Ant goes on a tour of the zoo and describes it all using clever and hilarious word play.
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If you were a fuzzy caterpillar crawling through the tall, tall grass on a sunny afternoon, what would you see? Beginning as the sun is high in the sky and...
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An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices
Viginia Euwer Wolff’s groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of...
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Nice place they got here.
Bed. Bowl. Blankie. Just like home!
Or so I've been told.
Visiting hours!
Yawn. I pretend not to care.
Yet -- I sneak a...
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Nothing drives a family crazy faster than an old black fly on a hot summer day, especially when the family's a little crazy already. And this fly is as bad as...
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Ying Chang Compestine’s pseudo-biographical story of growing up during the reign of Chairman Mao is a beautifully written, compelling story of a girl with the...
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Once upon a time, in Mexico . . . in Ireland . . . in Zimbabwe . . . there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields . . . then spent the night by the...
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An award winning, poignant novel in poems about a family coping with a father’s disappearance
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What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child?
Lots of noise!
Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the...
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Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with...
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Kids are often told to sit still and be quiet. But Denise Fleming encourages them to shout, shout it out! By taking basic learning concepts like numbers,...
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A blending of rich Mexican and American cultural traditions
"My name is Ramón Ernesto Ramírez, but everybody calls me Monchi. I live on a...
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A lyrical account of the life of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet slave of Cuba, in verse
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Text in both Inuktitut and English describes a now vanished way of life for the Inuit.
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Have you ever stumbled upon a famous quote and thought, "Who said that?" Well, now you can find out in this amusing and informative introduction to quotes and...
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A beak is a spoon, a beak is a slicer.
A beak is a scraper, stabber, and spiker.
Have you ever wondered why birds have different shaped beaks? Many beaks...
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An NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts.
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A runaway seeks Harper Lee for answers
Sometimes the things that need to be discovered aren’t so easily found at home. Erin is certain that this is true in...
