“You were the first to teach us how to be parents“

I would use this book in my classroom to teach children about the world around us. This book explains all the first things the baby did

This book uses space to convey meaning. It allows for the reader to see how the baby and the parents feel for every “first“ time the baby has

“Goodnight noises everywhere“

I would use book in my classroom to teach children about the importance of getting their sleep.

This book uses color to convey meaning. The first page of the book is an illustration of a bedroom that consists of many colors. The next page consists of two items from the bedroom. This page is in black and white. This pattern continues throughout the book.

“Dressed in their new Eid clothes, off they went to the mosque!“

I would use this story in my classroom to inform children on new cultures and religions. The story occurs at Eid the celebration after Ramadan in Muslim tradition.

This book uses color to convey meaning. The colors in the story are used to show the process that Nabeel goes through to get his new pair of pants.

“Hi! Im the bus driver. Listen, Ive got to leave for a little while, so can you watch things for me until I get back?“

I would use this book in my classroom for entertainment purposes. The book starts with the bus driver asking the audience to watch the bus and make sure the pigeon doesn't drive the bus.

This book uses space to convey meaning. This draws the audiences attention to the pigeon and the bus which is the main focus point of the book. It allows for the readers to understand the emotions of the pigeon.

“This Day In June Were All United“

I would use this book in my classroom to teach children about acceptance. This book is about LGBT pride celebration. I would use this book to teach respect, acceptance, and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. It teaches children that we are all united.

This book uses color to convey meaning. This book is about LGBT pride celebration. Each page on the book uses colors of the rainbow. Some of the pages on the book are mostly one color. For example, there is a page that consists of mostly red. In the LGBT flag, red is used to represent life.

“Now Mr. Tiger felt free to be himself.“

I could use this book in my classroom to show students that its okay to be different and to always be themselves. Mr. Tiger has an internal struggle because he cant relate to the other animals. Due to this, he chooses to go to the wild to gain a new perspective. When he returns, he learns that it is good to be yourself.

This book uses color to convey Mr. Tiger. At the beginning of the book, everyone and everything are dark colors. Except Mr. This allows for the audience to see that Mr. Tiger feels different from the others.

“But Im different here. Im neither red nor nor orange nor yellow nor blue...“

I would use this book in my classroom to introduce colors and acceptance. The book starts out with two characters. One character is yellow and the other one is blue. At first, these two characters are only familiar with their colors. However, as the book progresses, new characters with new colors are introduced. The green character thinks he can only play with other green characters. But he soon learns that he can play with everyone.

This book uses color to coney meaning. Each page in the book shows a new color. It starts out with blue and yellow, and as the book goes on all the colors are introduced.

“Autumn colors, all around.“

I would use this book in my classroom to explain fall. This book talks about what goes into the fall time. Including, the leaves falling, halloween, and the start of colder weather.

This book uses color to convey meaning. This book is about fall and what fall entails. Each page of the book uses fall colors to paint a picture to the audience. The colors used in this book consists of brown, green, red, and yellow.

“There is more than one way to picture a tree.“

I would use this book in my classroom to teach children about the world around them and the seasons. Within the book, you can see the different seasons and how leaves change depending on the season.

This book uses color to convey meaning. The story is about different ways to see a tree. Each page of the story consists of different colors that are used to allow the reader to gain an understanding of how a tree can be so many things.

“The snow was still everywhere. New snow was falling!“

I would use this book in my classroom to teach children about winter. This book shows a childs perspective on what winter entails. During winter, its cold and it snows. Due to this, we dress with hats and coats.

The use of space is conveyed in the book to show the readers how much snow there is. In each page on the story, most of the page is white to represent the snow. This is beneficial for readers who are learning about winter and snow because it explains it from a child's perspective.

“Some say the sun is a golden earring, the earring of a beautiful girl.“

I would use this book in my classroom for various things. The first thing I would use this for is to identify different parts of nature, weather, and the world around us. This story talks about different peoples beliefs on how the sky, sun, moon, and stars came to be. So, I would use this book for children to learn about different counties and peoples beliefs.

This is an award winning book about nature. This book acts as a story that explains nature through folklore about the heavens from many countries. It explains differently countries believes on how nature came to be.

“So she took her basket and she filled it with the green pears and the yellow bandanas and the red apples and the blue grapes.“

I could use this book with children to encourage them to critically think. In the story, the little girls has a broad understanding of what her mother likes. She knows she likes the colors red, yellow, green and blue. The rabbit helps her think critically about what presents she should get her mother.

This is an award winning book about a little girl who meets a rabbit. The rabbit helps her find her mother a birthday present. The girl and rabbit search long and hard for the perfect gift. At the end of the story, they figure out what present to give the mother.

“Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.“

I would use this book in my classroom to teach children about winter and what winter entails. The boy in the story describes his first experiences with snow and what his adventures entailed.

This is an award winning book about a little boy who experiences snow. He describes his first encounters with snow and his adventure. He experiments with footprints, knocking snow from a tree, creating snow angels, and trying to save a snowball for the next day.

“In his mind he always to be a hawk, the way he flew.“

I would use this book in my classroom to teach children about region‘s landscape, peoples, and values. This books regions landscape is near the Santos Mountains. The little boy in the story resonates with hawks and wants to be able to fly like them. His values and interests about hawks is based on his regions landscape.

This is an award winning book about a boy who resonates with hawks. He knows everything about hawks and is infatuated with them. He is determined to learn how to fly leading him to adopt a hawk. He learns about the ways of the hawk in hopes that is will bring him closer to his goal of learning how to fly.

“If the sky turns a color sky never was before just watch it. Thats part of the magic. Thats the way to start a day“

I would use this book to teach children about history. This book touches on how people throughout history embraces the day. Also, I would use this book to teach children to live every day to the fullest.

This is an award winning book about starting the day and living every day to the fullest. This book talks about how cavemen, the Aztecs, ancient Egyptians, celebrated the dawn.

“she rowed out in the rowboat and stayed on the lake all day.“

I would use this book to teach children about the importance of being patient and about discipline. The women is patient when catching the fish. She is disciplined in her routine.

This book is an award winning book about a women who has a routine that she follows every day. Everyday she follows the same routine, in her routine she goes fishing. The fish she catches she eats for dinner every night.

“As for Taro, he does a good job of keeping count of the rice for his father-in-law, which is no easy task.“

I would use this book with my students to teach them the importance of hard work. If you want to be successful in life and in school, you have to be able to work hard and always try your best