Help Wanted, Must Love Books by Janet Summer Johnson

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I love everything about this book! 🙌🏽

The illustrations, the storyline, the integration of well-known book characters…it has all of the elements to make your book-loving heart smile.

Help Wanted, Must Love Books tells the tale of a girl named Shailey who LOVES reading books with her dad. They snuggle together every night and read until Shailey’s eyes can take no more. Bedtime is perfect. Until one day, dad gets a new job and his priorities shift. 

What’s a booklover to do?

Start interviewing potential readers, that’s what!

Help Wanted, Must Love Books is a perfect read for 2nd and 3rd graders studying problem/solution, descriptive writing, and cause/effect!

✍🏻 Author: Janet Summer Johnson @janetsumnerjohnson

👩🏻‍🎨 Illustrator: Courtney Dawson

📚 Publisher: Capstone @capstone_pub

📆 Publication Date: March 2, 2020

I received this book from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Yours in Literacy,

Sheila 😊

Count on Me by Miguel Tanco

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I love, loVE, LOVE this book! There are so many wonderful things about Count on Me, written and illustrated by Miguel Tanco: the images, storyline, message…everything! It’s been awhile since I’ve read a picture book that seems to have it all. 

Count on Me is a story about a young girl who lives with a family of people who know their calling; her mom is a scientist, her dad is a painter, and her brother is a musician.  Through subsequent pages, readers begin to see the girl’s passion take shape. It’s math. Math is all around and the girl just can’t get enough. Even though her peers don’t fully understand her passion, it’s ok. Because she knows that everyone has his/her own way of seeing the world, and hers is through the lens of fractals, polygons, and the like.

Count on Me is a great read aloud for grades 2-3 and will be published on June 11, 2019.

Author/Illustrator: Miguel Tanco

Publisher: Penguin Random House/Tundra Books

I received this book from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Nerdy Birdy Tweets by Aaron Reynolds

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Nerdy Birdy Tweets is a timely tale of two friends whose bond is tested by technology. This is a perfect read aloud for 2nd and 3rd graders!

After Nerdy Birdy becomes addicted to Tweetster, he posts a not-so-flattering picture of his best friend, Vulture, eating quite messily. He soon learns that posting something online without permission is a HUGE mistake.

Will Nerdy Birdy repair his friendship with Vulture and learn the difference between online "friends" and a real friend? You'll have to read to find out!

(And if you're looking for a Book Study to go along with Nerdy Birdy Tweets, head on over to my TpT shop!)

Yours in Literacy,

Sheila :) 

NEW FAVORITE BOOK ALERT!

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There’s a common worldview that difficult feelings - like sadness - are meant to be repressed and hidden from the world. This leads to people suffering privately or bottling up emotions until they explode.

Luckily, highly-engaging books like Ira Crumbs Feels the Feelings teach children (especially boys!) that it’s ok to feel sad sometimes.

Ira and Malcolm are besties who have difficulty deciding whether to play hide-and-seek or tag. When others hear the word “tag,” they come running and swoop Malcolm off his feet, leaving Ira all alone.

Now Ira’s body is doing strange things, telling Ira that he is S to the A to the D: SAD.

People try to cheer him up but he just wants to feel his feelings!

Apparently, Malcolm was missing his bestie and comes back to find Ira feeling pretty sad. When he inquires about his friend’s sadness (as good friends ought to do), he doesn’t try to change Ira’s feelings but chooses to empathize with him instead.

All-in-all, Ira Crumbs Feels the Feelings has ME feeling all the feelings…especially love! 

Great read aloud for grades K-2.

Yours in Literacy,

Sheila :) 

I received this book from the publisher, Owl Kids, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Izzy Gizmo to the Rescue!

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There's been a movement in our society to recognize more women in the sciences. Luckily, this much-needed recognition has also migrated into the world of children's literature. One book, Izzy Gizmo to the Rescue, aims to do just that.

Izzy Gizmo is a creative inventor who likes to solve problems using a combination of everyday items.

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Just like any other inventor, Izzy gets frustrated when her designs malfunction. Luckily, her grandpa encourages her to try again, echoing Thomas Edison's famous quote: “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” 

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One day, she comes across an injured crow and has to go through various iterations of an invention to help the crow fly again.

This is a fabulous book to reinforce STEM, females in science, and the importance of perseverance. 

If you're interested, you can find my Izzy Gizmo to the Rescue BOOK STUDY here.

Yours in Literacy,

Sheila