Grace Oliff

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The Lost (and Found) Balloon

Celeste JENKINS | FICTION, Jun 01, 2013

K-Gr 1—A little girl ties a note to a red balloon and lets it go, hoping that someone will find it and respond...

Maddy's Mad Hair Day

James REID | FICTION, Jun 01, 2013

PreS-Gr 1—Mad Hair Day consists of seven short sentences and six illustrations...

Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

Jessica, adapter LAW | FICTION, May 01, 2013

PreS-Gr 4—Law has taken the traditional folk song and tweaked the words slightly so that it is a vehicle for teaching about the marine food chain, beginning with the shark and ending with seaweed...

From Pet Cats to Saber Tooths: Animals | Series Made Simple Spring 2013

Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ, Apr 10, 2013

Any elementary school librarian can tellyou that trying to keep books in the 590s in reasonable order is a herculean task. However, that’s not a negative. Children in this age range devour books about animals.

Ant Colonies

Louise Spilsbury | SERIES MADE SIMPLE, Apr 01, 2013

Gr 2–4—These deceptively slim volumes are packed with information that will be a boon to report writers, attractive to browsers, and fill that high interest/low vocabulary need...

Capybaras

Rachel LYNETTE | SERIES MADE SIMPLE, Apr 01, 2013

PreS-Gr 2—These slim books are packed with well-organized information about some of the more unusual jungle babies and could serve as models of informational books for this audience...

Pygmy Marmosets

Cecilia Pinto MCCARTHY | SERIES MADE SIMPLE, Apr 01, 2013

K-Gr 2—While these books are brief (fewer than half of the pages contain text), they are still solid means by which the youngest researchers can learn to navigate nonfiction...