Gossie, Written and Illustrated by Olivier Dunrea
Grades: PreK - 1st
Gossie features a little goose who loves wearing her bright red boots everywhere. One morning, they are missing. Searching everywhere, Gossie becomes increasingly distressed until she finds her boots on the feet of another, slightly smaller gosling. The last page shows the duo walking together, each wearing one red boot.
This little book shows sharing and friendship.
Amelia Bedelia and The Surprise Shower
Written by Peggy Parrish
Illustrated by Barbara Siebel Thomas
Grades: K-3
Amelia Bedelia will have everyone laughing out loud, until the last page.This is because Amelia takes everything literally. In this story, Miss Alma, Amelia's boss is going to have a shower at the House. So Amelia Bedelia almost crashes the party with her cousin, Alcou. She helps Alcou "prune" the hedges, ices raw fish with chocolate frosting, runs with the iron on Mrs Rogers's favorite tablecloth, and sprays all the party guests with the hose. Amelia Bedelia knows how to do one thing the right way, and that is to make chocolate cupcakes.
This can be used in the classroom when going over idioms. Idioms are figures of speech or common expressions that
can easily be misunderstood by someone who has not
heard them before. Generate a list of idioms that students find in the Amelia Bedelia books. Then assign each student
the task of learning a new idiom by asking a family member
for a favorite idiom and what it means.
