#PickSpitScratch #NetGalley

Title: Pick, Spit & Scratch
The science of disgusting Habits

Author: Julia Garstecki

Publisher: Voyageur Press

Children's Nonfiction 

Publish Day: October 23, 2018

Rating: 🥄🥄🥄🥄

Review: Great gross book with silly illustrations to help develop or further a child's fascination with everything "gross".

Goes from urine to dog kisses to gaming. It has a section that talks about breaking bad habits.

Downloaded on Netgalley in exchange for a free, honest review.

#HowRude #NetGalley

Title: How Rude!
Author: Clare Helen Welsh, Olivier Tallec
Publisher:  Quarto Publishing Group - words & Pictures
Publish Day: October 16, 2018

Review:

It's a book about manners. Duck is the rude guest that Dot is hosting.

This would be a great story to use to show the do's and don't behavior in class or at home. It's a good discussion piece that are great for a classroom setting.

I'd recommend it as part of your book collection on manners.

Downloaded through Netgalley -- I'm auto-approved for this publisher in exchange for an honest review.

#MyBirthday #SammyInTheFall #NetGalley

Title: My Birthday
Author: Anita Bijsterbosch
Publisher: Clavis
Publish day: September 1, 2018
Rating:🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

Summary:
Hurray, it’s Bear’s birthday! But everybody seems to have forgotten. And when Bear goes out to visit his friends, everybody is busy. But when he gets home again, a big surprise awaits him!

A funny birthday book with peep holes and folding pages. For toddlers ages 24 months and up, focusing on the child’s daily life.

Review:

Back of the eARC says, "Sweet book with peepholes and folding pages, about animal houses and a birthday surprised." This is a toddler-focus book that I clicked and downloaded because of the cover. Board books with movable parts for younger kids are good items to have to help kids gain interest in books. It's cute and works for the age range it's meant to be for. I think it'd work for younger school age as well.

Title: Sammy in the Fall
Author: Anita Bijsterbosch
Publisher: Clavis
Publish day: September 1, 2018
Rating:🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

Summary:
It’s fall. Sammy and his little horse, Hob,have a busy day picking apples, raking leaves,collecting nuts, and playing outside.Welcome, fall! A book with half pages that hide and reveal how Sammy and Hob enjoy the season.For toddlers ages 30 months and up,with a focus on the child’s world.

Review: Back of the eARC says this is a book with half pages that hide and reveal how Sammy & Hob enjoy the season. This is a toddler book so this isn't the usual age range of books I read in elementary. But I downloaded it because the cover was cute.

I liked the format/story of the book and following the two adorable characters through their interaction with autumn .. works for this.

Overall: The books are geared toward toddler but could work in a kindergarten classroom or student in my opinion.

#BenjiAndTheGiantKite #NetGalley

Title: Benji & The Giant Kite
Author: Alan C. Fox
Illustrator: Eefje Kuijil
Publisher: Clavis
Publish Day: August 11, 2018
Rating:🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

Summary:
Let's go fly a kite! An inspiring read-aloud picture book about ambition, perseverance, and kite-flying from bestselling author Alan C. Fox. For aspiring aviators ages 4 and up.

In a small shop, Benji sees a beautiful kite. It’s huge and it’s bright orange. But the kite is also very expensive. Benji takes on all kind of jobs to earn the money to buy it . . . Then finally, the day comes he can fly the kite!

Review:

Follows Benji and the giant kite. He wants it and so his mother buys it. But he cannot interact with it until he completes weeding the garden. This book would be a good way of showing emotion -- he cries at the start of the story about something and delay gratification -- he has to weed the garden before he can get the big prize (the kite).

Downloaded from Netgalley thanks to the publisher for an honest review :)