A lonely little mouse has to be resourceful to bring his family back together. In a series of delightfully imaginary achievements, “nobody’s mouse” transforms himself into the beloved hero of his mother, father, sister, and brand-new baby brother. In their very first collaboration, Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego give charm and validity to one of childhood’s more difficult experiences. Tender and catchy, Robert Kraus’s rhyming text, combined with Jose Aruego’s large, vibrantly clever illustrations, makes for a storytime classic.

Activities for 90 different children's books, covering time, art, cooking and snack time, creative dramatics, housekeeping and dress-up, music, movement, block building, science fun, nature study, library, mathematics (math fun).

By reading aloud to children, and then accompanying the readings with meaningful activities, teachers using this book can motivate youngsters to love books, know how to think and talk about fiction, and understand how literature provides insights into the human condition. Lesson plans include discussion guides, learning-center activities, parent-involvement plans, and reproducible handouts supporting eight popular books: The Carrot Seed, Do You Want to Be My Friend?, Goodnight Moon, Here Are My Hands, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Where's Spot?, Whose Mouse Are You?, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Grades preK-K. Good Year Books. 100 pages.

A lonely little mouse has to be resourceful in order to bring his family back together.

Reviews 1,400 books for children chosen as the best published during the years 1966-1972.

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.