Tails Are Not for Pulling

Tails Are Not for Pulling
by
Elizabeth Verdick
board book
ages 1-5

This book addresses a universal concern: will the baby/toddler/small child be kind to the cat or torment it?
Every parent, whether they own a cat or dog or not, encounters some situation like this at one point. Teaching children how to act appropriately around animals is an important lesson. This book shows the right and wrong way for children to interact with cats (and dogs).
This book might be placed in the fiction or nonfiction classification. It teaches morality and manners.
These would be good to have at a preschool or church library.
Here are other titles in the Best Behavior series:
Diapers Are Not Forever
Pacifiers Are Not Forever
Germs Are Not for Sharing
Words Are Not for Hurting
Teeth Are Not for Biting
Please, May I Have a Pencil?

Care Bears Caring Contest

Care Bears Caring Contest
by
Nancy Parent
ages 2-5

What are some ways you can show someone you care? How can you be kind to your friends and family? Although this is written to appeal to Care Bear fans, the caring lesson can be applied to all of us. This book shows little ways that bears (or children or adults) can be tender and loving. Isn't that what the world needs? More kindness?
This book should appeal to students, parents and teachers. It can be used with Bible verses, lessons on manners, etc. Children can come up with more ways to show caring that are not listed here. The lesson plan ideas keep rolling.
Even boys should read this.

Hey, Little Ant

Hey, Little Ant

by

Phillip and Hannah Hoose & Debbie Tilley

(Hannah was age 9 when she cowrote this book).

Fiction, ages 3-7.

What a quandary! Should the boy squish the ant or not? The ant begs for his life. There is a song in the back that presents the whole book as a duet song.

This book is simple and profound. What will the child decide?

This could be a conversation starter for a college philosophy class or simply read as a slightly humorous story.

In my case, this was on a list of books for nature appreciation (or is that nature destruction)?