Category: Children’s Books

Ready to Read books are great learning tools over the summer to prepare your child for independent reading or a head start. Ready to Read: Level One books are for ages 4-6 and the first independent readers. These will have fun stories with appropriate words children in this skill level can master easily. If you are looking for Summer reading, these 2 titles are a hit!

Hairy, Hairy Poodle by Marilyn Singer

Poodle coming, poodle going.
Poodle’s curly hair is growing.
Poodle’s eyes are hardly showing.
Like the grass, that dog needs mowing!

See Poodle’s hair grow and grow and grow in this rhyming book for beginning readers. Buy on Amazon.

Red Truck Monsters: Race for First Place by Candice Ransom

Monsters high five. Monsters grin. Monsters hope their truck might win!

A family of monsters enter a race with their beloved red truck. But soon they realize the race is for monster trucks, not monsters in trucks! Can they still finish in first place? Buy on Amazon!

These titles are published by Simon Schuster.

Winner of a Gold Mom’s Choice Awards and published by SPARK Publications, My Big Notebook: It’s About Me with a Little Help fromMy Friend JC is a coping tool. It is a notebook for children who may have experienced trauma situations, anxieties, isolation and even loss.

It is written by Carla A. Carlisle an author, child advocate, trauma expert, and TEDx Speaker. Carla adopted a boy to become her son through her fostering. Her son is JC and he helped her write this book.

What you get is more than a book, it is a tool! My Big Notebook includes:

• real stories
• healthy coping mechanisms
• positive affirmations
• coloring & journaling pages
• resources for kids
• techniques to help children express their feelings in a positive way
• letter to parents from a child and adolescent psychiatrist
• support for parents

Your child will learn to navigate small and big emotions and learn some coping skills along the way. My Big Notebook is available now at stores and Amazon.

The Moon Thief is written by Kristine Keck. The book is written to entertain and teach. It is written for ages 5-8.

Something terrible is happening in a small rural town! A very adventurous little boy with a fantastical imagination discovers that the moon is getting smaller by the day and a mysterious thief must be stealing it! It is up to him and his dog, Luna to bring it back.

Once the story ends, the kids might have some questions about the moon and this book has the answers. It includes an educational explanation and diagram on why the moon really changes, along with a fun calendar to track the moon’s phases. 

The Moon Thief is available through book stores and Amazon.

Bee Scared (The Old Doc Turtle Series) introduces the challenges of climate change and global warming to children. The problem is the story and the discussion is with you and your child. Bees are disappearing and fast! Can the Bees and Queen Bee find a way to keep their bee hive safe?

Without bees we don’t have fruit because they are not pollinating plants. Auntie Bee and Doc Turtle come to help with some ways to keep them safe and stay busy.

Richard Faith is the Author and this is a first book in what will be a series about the importance of bees to our planet. Faith is also the executive director of Mother Nature Festival Live Incorporated (http://mothernaturefestival.live), a 501(c)3 nonprofit that works to educate, inform and inspire everyone to get involved in helping Mother Nature. 

Buy Bee Scared on Amazon!