Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
Because Amelia Smiled by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick, 2012) is a circular book to emphasize our individual and unseen influence on others. When Amelia smiles, Mrs. Higgins smiles too and makes cookies for her son in Mexico. When he eats the cookies, he teaches his class a song about cookies and his student makes a decision.
I really enjoyed the book First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger. It has just a few words per page, and it is very simple, coming full circle and ending with “First the chicken. Then the egg.” The illustrations were gorgeous paintings (and well deserving of the Caldecott Honor). There were die cuts, which my
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