Favorite ABC Books for Kindergarten Literacy Selected by Nellie Edge and Colleagues “ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! by Nellie Edge. Sign2Me Publishers, 2010. See ABC Phonics teacher support Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod. HarperCollins, 2006. Max’s ABCby Rosemary Wells. Puffin, 2006. Puddle’s ABC (Toot & Puddle) by Hollie Hobbie. Little, Brown and Company, 2000. […]

Favorite Children’s Books 2015: Favorite New Books Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bearby Lindsay Mattick. Little Brown Books, 2015 Raindrops Rollby April Pulley Sayre. Simon & Schuster/Beach Lane, 2015 Hippos Are Huge!by Jonathan London. Candlewick Press, 2015 Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña. Putnam, 2015 Floatby […]

Favorite Children’s Books 2014: Favorite New Books The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems, 2014 (Author/illustrator study: teach speech bubbles!) Mama Built a Little Nest Mama Built a Little Nestby Jennifer Ward and Steve Jenkins, 2014(Bird study) Baby Bear by Kadir Nelson, 2014(Pair with National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears by Laura Marsh) Have You […]

Recent Kindergarten Favorites: Delightful Predictable Books for Building Early Reading Enthusiasm, Independence, and Stamina! Selected by Nellie Edge with a request: Please give beginning readers real books! Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli. (Candlewick Press, 2009) Big Cat, Small Catby Ami Rubinger. (Abbeville Press, 2009) Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett. (Simon and Schuster, 2007) […]