Books - Oscar Otter and Henry & Mudge
Oscar Otter is tired of other animals getting in his way when he plays, so he decides to build his own slide. He ignores some important advice from his father and when he decides to explore, he gets lost and attracts the attention of a fox, a wolf, a mountain lion, and even a curious moose. Thankfully, he finds his slide in time to escape narrowly from the other animals sliding after him. This short, funny story will have children laughing as they learn the importance of following their parent's advice.
Henry and Mudge, everyone's favorite boy and dog duo, enjoy three adventures in this book. In Snow Glory, Henry finds a flower that he loves and must learn to give it up when Mudge steps in in a surprising way. In Puddle Trouble, Henry and Mudge venture outside into the rain without permission. Finding a huge puddle, temptation becomes too much and they jump in! What happens when Henry's father arrives at the puddle? In The Kittens, the cat next door has five kittens. Mudge is fascinated and treats them gently. When a new dog enters the neighborhood, can Mudge get there in time to protect them? |
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Print Format Study Guide - Oscar Otter / Henry & Mudge
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CD Study Guide - Oscar Otter / Henry & Mudge
A study guide for children who can't read yet and those just beginning! Two complete guides for the price of one!! The guide contains all the critical thinking and literature study as our other lower elementary grades, but we've also added science and art project tie-ins. Also included are related science coloring pages and mazes/activities to keep little hands busy while you discuss the book. |
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A New Coat For Anna
This is the story of Anna and her mother, living in the aftermath of World War II. The war has ended, but the stores are empty, there is little food, and no one has any money. Anna has outgrown her winter coat that she has worn for years, so her mother devises a plan to provide her with a new one. With patience, hard work, sacrifice, and one long year of waiting, Anna and her mother finally succeed, making wonderful friends along the way.
Author, Harriet Ziefert based A New Coat for Anna on the true story of Ingeborg Schraft Hoffman, M.D., whose mother, Hanna Schraft, actually began with a few belongings and ended by providing her daughter with a beautiful, new coat. |
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Ox-Cart Man
The 1980 Caldecott Medal winner. This simple, rhythmic story traces a year in the life of a New England farm family in the 1800's. He fills his cart with the goods his family has produced throughout the year and takes them to market. After selling everything, including the cart and ox, he buys a few items and walks home. The values of hard work, patience, cooperation, family, and contentment are woven throughout the story.
Grades 1 - 3 |
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Sam The Minuteman
Sam lives with his mother and father on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts. America is still a British colony, but the people are unhappy. One day, Sam sees British soldiers in Boston trying to keep order. "They want to keep us from being too strong." his father tells him.
One spring night, Sam is woken by the church bells. The British soldiers are marching to Concord where the colonists have hidden weapons. Sam goes with his father and the Minutemen, hoping to hold back the British.
In the early morning hours, the British arrive. At their first encounter with the soldiers, Sam's best friend is injured. In their second encounter, the eighty Minutemen are outnumbered by what seem to be thousands of British troops. Suddenly, someone, somewhere fires a gun. Experience the start of the American Revolution through a young boy's eyes. |
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The Bears On Hemlock Mountain
Jonathan is sure there are no bears on Hemlock Mountain. When he is given the task of going over the mountain to his aunts' house to borrow a large pot for his mother, he reassures himself over and over: "There... are... no... bears... on... Hemlock... Mountain... no... bears... no... bears... at... all." Once at his aunt's house, Jonathan dawdles, enjoying cookies and a nap in front of the fire. When he awakes, he realizes he must now go back over the mountain - in the dark! Despite his refrain of "no... bears...", he meets some, and thinking quickly hides under the large iron pot. When will rescue come? Jonathan learns a hair-raising lesson in being responsible for your own actions. |
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The Courage Of Sarah Noble
In the year 1707, eight-year-old Sarah accompanies her father into the wilderness of Connecticut. There her father builds a house and clears land while Sarah keeps the camp and cooks for him. The dark, the wild animals, and the Indians all make it difficult to be brave, but, she reminds herself of her mother's words as she holds her red cloak close: "Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble." When her father leaves to bring the rest of the family back, Sarah is left in the care of a neighboring Indian tribe, where she learns the meaning of trust and friendship. Based on a true story.
Grades 1 - 3 |
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The Drinking Gourd
When Deacon Fuller sends his misbehaving boy, Tommy, home early from church, Tommy accidentally discovers a family of runaway slaves hidden in his barn. Big Jeff and his family have escaped and are fleeing to Canada where they can be free. Tommy learns that his father has hidden them and is part of the Underground Railroad, a group dedicated to helping runaway slaves to freedom.
Tommy helps his father hide Big Jeff, Vinnie, Little Jeff, and baby Pearl in the hay wagon and take them to the river, following the route of the drinking gourd, a constellation in the northern sky pointing the way to freedom. While his father goes for the boat, a slave search party approaches and Tommy must think quickly to save them. He tells the men, who recognize him from church, that he is running away because he is afraid of being punished. The men laugh and ride away without searching the wagon.
Later that evening, when Big Jeff and his family had been sent on their way toward freedom, Tommy and his father discuss obeying the law and the true value of a man. |
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The Josephina Story Quilt
When Faith's family packs their covered wagon for the long journey to California, there is no room for Faith's pet hen, Josefina. She is too old to lay eggs and too tough to eat; but Faith's father relents and allows her to bring her pet along, provided that she keeps Josefina out of trouble. As the wagon train begins the journey, Faith begins her patches for a quilt that will tell the story of their travels. In spite of Faith's promise to keep her chicken out of trouble, Josefina nearly causes a stampede, and falls in a river during a crossing. Just as Faith's father is ready to get rid of her, she begins to lay eggs again and is allowed to stay. As food and water become scarce, the Indians offer to trade meat and water for the family's quilts and Josefina. Faith and her mother refuse, and Josefina soons proves her worth when her loud cackling warns the family of two robbers creeping into camp. But, the difficult journey is too much for Josefina, and Faith must bravely say goodbye to her pet, using her travel quilt to tell the story of their trip and to always remember her pet, Josefina. |
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The Long Way To A New Land
In 1868, Sweden is devastated by drought and Carl Erik's family is starving. Hope reaches them when a letter from their uncle in America arrives, inviting them to "the land of opportunity." They decide to sell the farm and go to America to make a new life. The packing, the goodbyes, and the trip itself are difficult; yet the children eagerly wonder when they might get wheat bread with butter in America. Finally allowed into the country after passing through immigration, Carl Erik exclaims, "Now we are arrived." |
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The Long Way Westward
America is full of surprises. The streets are not paved with gold! In this sequel to The Long Way to a New Land, Carl Erik and his family travel west on train after train to La Crosse, Wisconsin. From there, they travel by steamboat to Anoka, Minnesota, where their uncle lives and Papa has work. All the travel, the dangers, the crowds, and the cold are forgotten the moment they arrive. They're finally home! |
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Wagon Wheels
In 1878, Ed Muldie leaves Kentucky with his son Johnny, age 11, and his two younger sons, to take advantage of the free land offered by the United States government through the Homestead Act. They settle in Nicodemus, Kansas, and build a dugout to live in for the winter. During the harsh winter, the people of Nicodemus are saved from starvation by the Osage Indians who bring them food. In the spring their father travels on ahead to find land and build a home. The boys stay alone with the people in Nicodemus, narrowly escaping a prairie fire. When a letter from their father arrives sending for them, they summon their courage and travel alone for 150 miles to find him. Their courage and their faith in their father carrying them home. |
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Keep The Lights Burning, Abbie
For hundreds of years, lighthouses have warned ships and sailors of danger. Today llighthouses have electricity, radios, and radar to help them. Many years ago, however, dedicated lighthouse keepers used whale oil and petroleum for their lamps, and would often be cut off from other people for up to several months. It was their job to keep the lamps lit, to warn the ships at sea of dangerous rocks. Matinicus Rock is off the coast of Maine, on the east coast of the United States.
This is the true story of Abbie Burgess and her family. In the winter of 1856, Abbie's father, the lighthouse keeper, must go for badly-needed supplies, medicine, and oil. As he leaves, he asks for Abbie's promise to keep the lights burning. She gives her word and watches him row away, not knowing that a storm will soon isolate the lighthouse for four weeks. She learns what a promise means as she tends the lights nightly, cares for her sick mother, her sister, and her chickens, and watches anxiously for the storm to end.
Grades 1 - 2 |
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