Math for All Seasons: Mind Stretching Math Riddles
Math Fables Too
Math Fables
Math Appeal: Mind Stretching Math Riddles
Best of Times: Math Strategies that Multiply
Seven Silly Eaters
Hush, Little Baby
Zen Ties
Stillwater, a large panda, tells each child a story that illustrates a principle of Zen. Although the tales will captivate children, adults may recognize the philosophy imbedded in them. Delicate, handsome illustrations capture the mood and flow of the stories.
Zen Shorts
Three Questions
Stonecutter
Old Turtle and the Broken Truth
No Dogs Allowed
I Will Hold You ‘Till You Sleep
Gershon’s Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year
Come on, Rain
Pizza, Pigs and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
Despite the dry subtitle, this is actually a lively guide to poetry forms both familiar and obscure. In a picture-book format, Janeczko uses examples and informative language to illustrate a wide variety of poems.
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
Calling the Doves is poet Juan Felipe Herrera’s story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains. He remembers his mother singing songs and reciting poetry, and his father telling stories and calling the doves.
Calling the Doves
Amelia’s Road
Peace, Locomotion
We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past
When Ada Ruth’s mother goes to Chicago for a much-needed job during World War II, Ada Ruth stays with her grandmother in Grandma’s rural home. Being apart is tough even though Ada Ruth knows it is in response to the war. Words and illustration combine to present a stirring portrait of longing, family, and love until mother and child are reunited.
Coming on Home Soon
Sophisticated readers will appreciate the sly humor and wordplay in the “kissin’ cousin of haiku.” Senyru focuses on everyday activities (e.g., “Freedom vanishes, as the babysitter arrives… kids are tied in nots”) complemented here by comic illustrations.