oversize books

The reader guesses the identity of microscopic pictures of objects and animals in the natural world from a series of clues.

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. Includes read aloud cassette.

Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.

Rhyming text and illustrations explain how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Includes instructions for accompanying hand and foot motions at the end of the book.

After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.

A little bunny enjoys the many different colors of flowers he finds in the garden.

Rhyming text describes Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World.

A young girl names all the clothes that she must wear to play in the snow.

A large, colorful teaching tool that defines and discusses six parts of writing--ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions--and illustrates for students how to do them well, presenting a rubric and high- and low-scoring writing samples for each.