When he follows her advice, he's able to develop a bedtime routine that works best for him and he falls right to sleep. He needs to trust himself to be his own guide. He wants to go to sleep but nobody else's tricks work for him.įinally, Miss Shimmer explains to him that he well only find success if he finds what works for him. One by one, they fall asleep as he looks in an increasingly frustrated state. All the other see creatures tell him what works best for them. It would also fit in well with a discussion of developing your own habits and routines. This is the perfect read-aloud for kids who have a hard time falling asleep at night. Written by Deborah Diesen, Illustrated by Dan Hanna Ultimately, he realizes that the best thing he can do with his word collection is to share it with all the other children.Īs kindergarteners get introduced to the world of spelling lists and vocabulary journals, we do well to introduce them to the power of words early so they develop an understanding of and appreciation for language as their own budding vocabularies start to explode.
That's when he realizes the true beauty of the words: the infinite ways he can combine them to delight people, show empathy, and communicate his ideas. He organizes his words into a well-sorted stack of collections, until one day he falls while carrying them all and the words get all jumbled together. All kinds of words: words that jump out at him and pop off pages, short and weet words, multi-syllable words that sound like little songs. When Toad tells Frog he's never received a letter before, Frog immediately goes home and writes him a letter thanking him for his friendship, then sits with him for four days waiting for it to arrive.Īt a time when kids are really struggling to learn what it means to be a true friend, we will do well to offer them Frog and Toad as an early example of what friendship can be like.Ĭategories: funny, award-winning, friendship, animal tale After Toad makes Frog spend a morning helping him look for a lost button, he goes home and sews buttons all over his jacket before giving it to his friend the next day to make it up to him. The book contains five vignettes of their lives and each one portrays new aspects of their friendship. This classic tale of friendship is as heartwarming as it is funny.įrog is upbeat and always wants to have new adventures, while Toad is more reserved and prefers to stay home and sleep when possible. It would also be an excellent addition to a unit study on bats.Ĭategories: award-winning, friendship, diversity, animal tale, natureįrog and Toad are Friends has been a childhood favorite for over fifty years. This book has strong themes of friendship and learning to appreciate our own individualities.
She and her bird family are not able to fully understand the differences between them, but they know that they're friends, and that's what matters. While hanging from a tree in the middle of the night, she is approached by a group of fruit bats who help her understand who she truly is. While the family of birds is kind to her, they're not very accepting of her differences and they try to make her fit in with them by acting like a bird.Īs she grows, she isolates herself more because her unusual habits make her feel so inadequate with the birds. She lands in a birds nest and is taken in by the mother bird who is raising her own three babies. Stellaluna is a baby bat who gets separated from her mother after an owl attacks them.
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