Elementary Library

RESOURCES Picture Books ●​

Nonfiction ●​

A Bike Like Sergio’s by Maribeth Boelts

Because of an Acorn by Lola Schaefer

A Different Pond by Bao Phi

●​ Can We Be Friends? Unexpected Animal Friendships From Around the World by Erica Sirotich ●​ Cute As An Axolotl: Discovering the World’s Most Adorable Animals by Jess Keating ●​ Drop: An Adventure Through the Water Cycle by Emily Kate Moon ●​ Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon by Simran Jeet Singh ●​ Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh ●​ Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming ●​ Let’s Explore Phases of the Moon by Laura Hamilton Waxman ●​ Mars! Earthlings Welcome by Stacy McAnulty ●​ Motorcycles by Kate Riggs (getepic.com) ●​ Over and Under the Rainforest by Kate Messner ●​ Play in the Wild: How Baby Animals Like to Have Fun by Lita Judge ●​ Free for You and Me: What Our First Amendment Means by Christy Mihaly ●​ Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre by Anika Aldamuy Denise ●​ Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children by Jan Pinborough ●​ The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard & Oge Mora

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Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal ●​ Bunny’s Book Club by Annie Silvestro ●​ Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jimenez, Daughter of the Nahua by Gloria Amescua ●​ Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes ●​ Drawn Together by Minh Le ●​ Evelyn Del Ray is Moving Away by Meg Medina ●​ Eyes that Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho ●​ I Talk Like A River by Jordan Scott ●​ Isabel and her Colores go to school by Alexandra Alessandri ●​ La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya ●​ My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero ●​ Oh No, the Aunts are Here by Adam Rex ●​ Paletero Man by Lucky Diaz ●​ Papa’s Magical Water Jug Clock by Jesus Trejo ●​ Peanut Butter and Cupcake by Terry Border ●​ Saturday by Oge Mora ●​ Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry ●​ The All-Together Quilt by Lizzy Rockwell ●​ The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story by Aya Khalil ●​ The Cool Bean by Jory John ●​ The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt ●​ The Kindest Red by Irihaj Muhammad ●​ The Leaf Thief by Alice Hemming ●​ The Pirates are Coming by John Condon ●​ The Princess and the Pea by Rachel Isadora ●​ The Purple Puffy Coat by Maribeth Boelts ●​ The Same but Different Too by Karl Newson ●​ Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala

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