cross-curricular units based on the works of Eric Carle, Robert Kalan, Ludwig Bemelmans, and more
Bryant, Margaret A.
2006
Contains three four-week, cross-curricular thematic units about the fall season for students in kindergarten through third grade, based on picture books by Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert, Tomie dePaola, Eve Bunting, and many others.
Leading children's literature bloggers take readers behind the scenes of many beloved children's books, revealing secret lives, scandalous turns, and humorous surprises.
Text and photographs present the activities at a ballet studio where young children warm up, practice the five basic positions, exercice at the barr, and watch teenage ballet dancers perform.
Presents some of the "masterpieces" of children's literature, including Mother Goose verses, fairy tales, works by Lear, Ruskin, Carroll, Twain, Harris, Stevenson, Baum, Grahame, Kipling, Milne, and more.