This adorable fiction picture book is known all over! It's a short sweet story about Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Nutbrown Hare and how they are competing about who loves each other more. My favorite part of the book is if the picture that I took for this blurb. I can't wait to read this to my future students! Want to know how he came up with this story? Check out this website! http://www.guesshowmuchiloveyou.com/the-story #UCFLAE3414sp17

This book was the definition of my childhood. I was visiting back home and I randomly remembered this book! Thank my stars that my mother kept it all these years. This is an interactive fiction book. You flip through the pages and on each page you can open flaps, doors, slid things up and down and etc! I had so much fun looking through this book again. For more cool art work by him: http://www.art-licensing.com/roger-nannini/ #UCFLAE3414sp17

I used to love reading this book when I was little! I mean who wouldn't when Barney is in it! This fiction book is about Barney and how he is making a painting for the reader. Every page he talks about a different color, and he gives a variety of different life like examples that have that color! This is a great book to help teach kids their colors. For more check out this site! https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Ann-Dudko/e/B001HOGSYK #UCFLAE3414sp17

This was one of my favorite books when I was little. I used to relate to Yoko. This fictional book is about a young kitten named Yoko and the struggles that she faces during lunchtime. Her classmates eat "regular" food while she eats her sushi. They make fun of her lunch and Yoko starts to feel sad. But in the end this raccoon named Timothy tries some of her sushi & they become friends! For more: http://www.rosemarywells.com #UCFLAE3414sp17

This is a very old childhood book of mine! This fictional children's picture book is about a dog named Martha and how she started speaking. It happened because her owner gave her a bowl of alphabet soup to eat. So the letters from the soup went to her brain instead of her stomach! She started to talk too much and it was getting her in trouble. For more: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/marthathetalkingdog/author.html #UCFLAE3414sp17

This fictional children's literature book is a classic! I remember reading it all the time when I was in elementary school. It's about a bunch of different colorful animals and what they see. Each page is about one animal seeing an animal that is on the next page. This would be perfect for storytelling time in a Kindergarten classroom. For more: http://www.billmartinjr.com/books #UCFLAE3414sp17

"The Dragon's Cold" by John Talbot is a fictional story about a boy named Alex and his friends who decide to go to the beach one day. They discover something in the sand and it turns out to be a dragons tail! The dragon turns out to have a cold and needs help from the kids to get rid of it. The kids gather sheets to make a huge handkerchief for the dragon. Read to find out the end! More: https://www.jacketflap.com/john-talbot/79129 #UCFLAE3414sp17

"Actual Size" by Steve Jenkins is an amazing nonfiction book. It includes visually appealing pictures of animals both large and small! As well as each animals length, height, weight, and other interesting facts. For example: the length of a great white sharks tooth is 4 inches long! Children will love reading this book as well as learning real life facts about animals. For more: http://www.stevejenkinsbooks.com/books_list.html #UCFLAE3414sp17

"Surprise Puppy!" By Judith Hodge is an adorable realistic fiction book for young children! This book is about a father who brings home a friends puppy for his family to look after for a few days. His two children even get to name the puppy (Wags). As the story goes on it shows all the different kinds of responsibilities needed to take care of a puppy. To read more go here: https://www.librarything.com/author/walkerhodgejudith #UCFLAE3414sp17

Another book I read was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. This fictional children's literature book is all about a baby caterpillar who eats through a variety of foods throughout the days of the week. Until finally it's time for him to form a cocoon around himself. At the end he comes out as a beautiful and colorful butterfly! If you would like to read more of his books visit: http://www.eric-carle.com/books.html #UCFLAE3414sp17

My independent read was "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate. This fictional children's literature book is inspiring to the mind but heartbreaking to the soul. It is interesting to feel both of those at the same time. It is about a gorilla who is living inside of Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. He is still figuring out his past as well as his future. For more: http://us.macmillan.com/author/katherineapplegate/ #UCFLAE3414sp17

For my literary circle we read the book Pax by Sara PennyPacker. This realistic fiction book was such a cute read! It was about a boy who had a pet fox and had to let him go in the wild. The boy realized his mistake and was set on a journey to find his pet fox again. Meanwhile, the fox was on a journey to find his owner as well. This is about how they find their way back to each other. For more: http://www.sarapennypacker.com #UCFLAE3414sp17