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Bubba and Beau Meet the Relatives (Bubba And Beau)
Kathi Appelt
Voyager Books, 2008
Fun for kids & parents!
We started by checking out the Bubba and Beau books from the library, but quickly found we read them every day and the books were due back. So, we bought the books, and (as Appelt would put it) honey, it was better than pickled eggs! Meet the Relatives has to be my ...
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Incredible Me!
Kathi Appelt
HarperCollins, 2003
Incredible book!
This book is a great way to get children to realize how special and unique they are. Appelt makes the reader see all the characteristics that make a person unique. A fun and encouraging book for young readers.
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Bubba and Beau, Best Friends (Bubba And Beau)
Kathi Appelt
Voyager Books, 2006
Bubba & Beau May Become Your Child's New Best Friends
Appelt's funny and charming tale of the almost simultaneous birth and budding friendship between a boy named Bubba and a puppy named Beau is heartwarming and enchanting. With no apparent idea that they are different species, these naïve babies" bond over their shared ...
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Bat Jamboree
Kathi Appelt
HarperTrophy, 1998
Night Fun
As a third grade teacher, I found this book useful on the 55th day of school. After reading the book, the children made a pyramid using manipulatives for the bats. We used 1" tiles. This demonstrates a growing pattern using +1 pattern to grow with. This is a nice ...
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Bats Around the Clock
Kathi Appelt
HarperCollins, 2000
Boogie oogie oogie
All night long the bats get down on American Batstand and at each hour the bats take up a different dance as Click Dark, their host, introduces a new tune. Children will love the sotry and feel absolutely brilliant once they've discovered that they can use this story ...
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Watermelon Day
Kathi Appelt
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 1996
An absolute wonder...
I had the opportunity to listen to Kathi Appelt read this story aloud, and it was wonderful. By hearing the author read it the way she meant for it to be heard, it made this story magical and special. I immediately felt compelled to buy my own copy to share with ...
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Bubba and Beau Go Night-Night (Bubba And Beau)
Kathi Appelt
Voyager Books, 2006
Perfect for country kids
I'm a librarian in rural Washington. The Bubba and Beau series is perfect for country Dads and Grandpas to read to kids age 3-8. I especially like this one, because it shows big and little Bubba traveling together. Where I live most kids do travel with their dads ...
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Oh My Baby, Little One
Kathi Appelt
Voyager Books, 2006
Childrens Books
This is one of the most beautiful and tender stories I've ever read about a working momy and the seperation she and her baby son must go through every day when she goes off to work and he goes to school. It helped me and my son a lot knowing that other families go ...
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The Underneath
Kathi Appelt
Atheneum, 2008
Fantasy/Reality/Love/Loss
Wow - I just finished The Underneath. It is an amazing combination of fantasy and reality, with characters and a story that can tug your heartstrings and keep you reading and wondering. It is hard to talk in detail about this book without giving some things away, but ...
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Bats on Parade
Kathi Appelt
HarperCollins Publishers, 1999
Full of colorful illustrations, this is a wonderful book.
The Marching Bat Band parades down the Grand Promenade to the tune of "Stars and Stripes." From two times two to ten times ten, the bats demonstrate multiplication. This book has 385 bats strutting their stuff and is a great follow up to Bat Jamboree by the same ...
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Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start
Kathi Appelt
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2002
Great gift for your high school poet
My daughter enjoys writing poems and really enjoyed these age appropriate poems written by her peers
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My Father's Summers: A Daughter's Memoir
Kathi Appelt
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2004
Kathi Appelt's poignant collection of eloquent prose poems
The memory of our childhood is like a collection of snap shots that capture not only high points but unrelated odds and ends that are preserved for reasons we can not even suspect any more. An autobiography tries to connect all the dots and provide a smooth narrative ...
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Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America
Kathi Appelt
HarperCollins, 2005
like wildflowers?
This is a picture book type biography of First Lady Bird Johnson. First we learn of her childhood. We learn that her nanny gave her the nickname ladybird. She was playing with her one day and said she was as pretty as a Lady Bird and the name stuck. We then learn ...
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I See the Moon
Kathi Appelt
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997
BEAUTIFUL!
Not only does this story have a wonderful message that God is always nearby, the illustrations are absolutely captivating! My son just loves the pictures in this book, and you know what? So do I!!! I think this book is worth the purchase just for the beautiful ...
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Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky
Kathi Appelt, Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer
HarperCollins, 2001
Wish There Was More
This is the kind of book we all should read, regardless of age. It is well researched, well annotated and well written. I bought it for my wife, a reading specialist, for Easter, and wound up reading it before she got her hands on it. It would be great to have an ...
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