A fun, easy to read interactive adventure that reluctant readers will actually want to read. Another laugh-out-loud book from Beth Bacon that’s sure to reach your beginning to intermediate reluctant readers. A lonely book makes a deal with its reader: "you keep turning my pages, puzzles, and I'll make it fun!” The interactive jokes, and imaginative activities that follow will keep your reluctant reader engaged.
Bold colorful graphics and wacky humor appeal to both younger children and older kids. A great educational reading book perfect to help teachers, parents, and grandparents during required reading or story time.
I Hate Reading: How To Get Through 20 Minutes Of Reading Without Really Reading
Guaranteed to get kids giggling as they learn how to read. Their outrageous plans involve shoestrings, bathroom breaks, and man-eating animals. A laugh-out-loud funny book for beginning to intermediate reluctant readers. Kids from level one beginner readers to intermediate high-low readers will laugh out loud as they discover they, too, can read on their own.
. Winner of library Media Connection Editors' Choice Award. Two brothers who hate to read offer hilarious tips on how to get out of their daily reading requirement.
The Worst Book Ever: A funny, interactive read-aloud for story time
Most bad books are happy hanging out at rummage sales. Uses meta-storytelling and interactivity to get kids laughing, dancing, shouting—and reading. Problem is, no one seems to notice… until the book teams up with its boisterous readers. Its goal is to be featured in its library’s Banned Books List. Will the book see its cover on the library wall… or will it end up in the recycling bin? Full of bold, colorful graphics and laugh-out-loud humor, The Worst Book Ever is another high-lo book for reluctant readers by Beth Bacon.
Together, the book and its readers shout, sing, and wiggle their way into the attention of a local librarian. Ideal for read-alouds, story time, as well as independent reading for children who are beginning to intermediate reluctant readers. Not this bad book. Like beth bacon’s other books, the book no one Wants To Read, and Blank Space, I Hate Reading, this book helps make reading fun.
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The Worst Book Ever: A funny, interactive read-aloud for story time
Will the book see its cover on the library wall… or will it end up in the recycling bin? Full of bold, colorful graphics and laugh-out-loud humor, The Worst Book Ever is another high-lo book for reluctant readers by Beth Bacon. Not this bad book. Together, sing, the book and its readers shout, and wiggle their way into the attention of a local librarian.
Uses meta-storytelling and interactivity to get kids laughing, dancing, shouting—and reading. Most bad books are happy hanging out at rummage sales. Ideal for read-alouds, story time, as well as independent reading for children who are beginning to intermediate reluctant readers. Like beth bacon’s other books, i hate reading, The Book No One Wants To Read, and Blank Space, this book helps make reading fun.
Problem is, no one seems to notice… until the book teams up with its boisterous readers. Its goal is to be featured in its library’s Banned Books List.
I Hate Reading: How To Get Through 20 Minutes of Reading Without Really Reading
A laugh-out-loud funny book for beginning to intermediate reluctant readers. Two brothers who hate to read offer hilarious tips on how to get out of their daily reading requirement. Winner of library Media Connection Editors' Choice Award. Guaranteed to get kids giggling as they learn how to read. Kids from level one beginner readers to intermediate high-low readers will laugh out loud as they discover they, too, can read on their own.
Their outrageous plans involve shoestrings, bathroom breaks, and man-eating animals.
Blank Space
The themes in this easy-to-read story can aid teachers, reading specialists, and librarians and spark discussions on reading strategies. Blank space by beth Bacon is a simple yet powerful exploration of the act of reading. Like beth bacon’s other books, and the worst book ever, I Hate Reading, The Book No One Wants To Read, this book validates the experience of today’s striving readers.
. Children who are reluctant to read will see themselves in this hi-lo book for intermediate readers. When teacher miss gonzalez asks her class to write about their favorite part of any book, one student answers honestly: the blank space! This story, written in concrete poetry, conveys the experience of many striving readers.
The elegant design, lyrical language, and abundant blank space offer striving readers lots of time to co-create the story. Where exactly does reading happen? It must happen somewhere between the words on the page and the reader’s heart and mind.
The Bad Seed
How bad? do you really want to know? He has a bad temper, bad manners, and a bad attitude. A baaaaaaaaaad seed. Perfect for young readers, as well as anyone navigating their current world, The Bad Seed proves that positive change is possible for each and every one of us. An amazon best children's book of the year selectionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Goodnight Already! seriesThis is a book about a bad seed.
He's been bad since he can remember! with jory john's charming and endearing text and bold expressive illustrations by Pete Oswald, acceptance, here is The Bad Seed: a funny yet touching tale that reminds us of the remarkably transformative power of will, and just being you.
The Word Collector
In this extraordinary new tale from Peter H. Words that connect, transform, and empower. A new york times bestsellersome people collect stamps. Some people collect coins. Some people collect art. And jerome?Jerome collected words. Reynolds, two-syllable treats, jerome discovers the magic of the words all around him -- short and sweet words, and multisyllable words that sound like little songs.
From the creator of the dot, i am human, and Happy Dreamer comes a celebration of finding your own words -- and the impact you can have when you share them with the world.
Rot, the Cutest in the World!
A mutant potato learns that he’s pear-fect just the way he is in this bright, fun, and silly picture book from the creator of It Came in the Mail that will have kids collapsing in giggles and rescuing the contents of the vegetable drawer. Rot is a mutant potato. But when rot realizes who he’s up against—an itty-bitty baby bunny, a little-wittle cuddly kitten, and an eenie-weenie jolly jellyfish—he loses confidence.
So when he sees a sign for the “Cutest in the World Contest, ” he can’t wait to enter. Will the judges find room in their hearts for an adorable mutant potato? Like most mutant potatoes, Rot loves all sorts of games and contests.
Peanut Butter and Jelly A Narwhal and Jelly Book #3
Hilarious and charming. Peanut butter! ever-sensible jelly isn't so sure that's the best idea, but is all for Narwhal trying new things instead of just eating waffles all the time, no matter how delicious waffles are. In this third book, narwhal and Jelly star in three new stories about trying new things, favorite foods and accepting who we are.
. Always funny and never didactic, this underwater duo charms again through their powerful combination of positive thinking, imagination and joyfulness. That's right. The most lovable duo since Frog and Toad. Nyt-bestselling creator of the dog man and captain underpants series, Dav PilkeyNarwhal's obsession with his new favorite food leads him into hijinks and hilarity in the third book of this all-star early graphic novel series!Narwhal and Jelly are back and Narwhal has a new obsession.
. Peanut butter! he's so obsessed he even wants to change his name to.
Drawn Together
But as they sit down to draw together, something magical happens-with a shared love of art and storytelling, the two form a bond that goes beyond words. With spare, direct text by minh lê and luminous illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, this stirring picturebook about reaching across barriers will be cherished for years to come.
. When a young boy visits his grandfather, their lack of a common language leads to confusion, frustration, and silence.
