Daddy Mojo used to teach. Being an ex educator he’s interested in many things about education, such as teaching policies, best practices and bureaucracy.
Giraffes Ruin Everything, it’s true. Many years ago Richard Pryor had a routine that made a parallel illogical and entertaining jump that snakes will make you run into trees. Giraffes Ruin Everything is a children’s book that ages 3 to 8 will howl with laughter at. Parents will like the book too because it teaches kids a valuable lesson that they might have trouble learning the first time.
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Kids love trucks. Kids love cake. Kids love being silly. If you combine these you’ll get The Mixed-Up Truck, by Stephen Savage. It’s the story of a cement mixer and its first day on the job who means well, but keeps making simple mistakes. Kids make mistakes too. The Mixed-Up Truck is also an allegory for children that it’s normal to make mistakes.
Continue reading The Mixed-Up Truck gets teaching kids (and having fun) allegorically A-OK
Salina Yoon is an author whose distinctive style makes her work immediately memorable for its demographic. Yoon has a way of speaking to the pre-school to early elementary school audience like few who write for that field. If I didn’t know that she was a grown woman I’d swear that she attended our son’s pre-school class with him. Bear’s Big Day is another example of her channeling everyone’s inner 4 year old going back to school, or in this case, starting school.
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Spoiler alert, we like to read and want kids to start reading at an early age. Key to that happening is finding subjects that they actually want to read about. For some that topic matter is undeniable going to be superheroes, like Batman, Superman, Green Lantern or Wonder Woman. Certainly there are some all age comic books that have those characters in them; but those comics helps further their interest in reading, but may not be at a level for early readers. Capstone has a series of origin stories that feature Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman designed fill that superhero void.
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Our criteria for a great good night book is that it has big pictures, is short enough to re-read if you need to and is interesting enough for young kids. Using our qualifiers there has not been a good night superhero book for the younger ages until now. Bedtime For Batman has bright, big art featuring the caped crusader and his parallel tract with a 4 year old boy who is preparing for bed.
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Kids are weird. Having said that, I’m weird and so are you. There is something about all of us-at one point or another, that we thought we were different, uncool, strange or utterly alien. The difference is that kids are brand new to being different and find it tougher to deal with. A Tiger Tail, (or what happened to Anya on her first day of school) by Mike Boldt is the story of a girl’s first day of First grade and her strange new appendage.
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Oscar and the Amazing Gravity Repellent by Tina L. Peterson is a book that hooks you from the title, baits you with curiosity once you start reading it and reels you in once you’re 20 pages deep. It’s a story with characters that any student 8 or older will relate to and does so in a way that surprising and very mature. By ‘mature’ I mean that there aren’t any juvenile pranks, body noise jokes, aloof parents or other things that might be in an upper elementary to middle school book. If your reader is down Wimpy Kid, but looking for something with almost no pictures, a strong sense of storytelling and lots of imagination then they’ll love this book.
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I owe Super Fly an apology. Super Fly is the title character in a (now) series of books that are just about perfect for young elementary school readers. The chapters are short, the vocabulary is approachable, the book has drawings on half of the pages and it’s packed with parent approved potty humor. However, when I first saw Super Fly I thought it was too much like Fly Guy. With the second book from Super Fly out, Revenge of the Roach I realize now that this series is a big step up, from a reading level perspective than our first fly love.
Continue reading Super Fly: Revenge of the Roach is a young elementary gold mine
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