This document provides summaries of 14 children's books. It describes the title, author, illustrator, target age group, and a brief summary of each book. The books cover a range of topics including families, emotions, science, counting, nature walks, and diversity. Many of the books are described as providing "windows and mirrors" that allow children to see themselves or learn about other people and cultures.

1. My Language &
LITERACY Book
Library
By Ashlee Graves

2. Title: Families Around the World
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Illustrator: Jessica Rae Gordon
Age group: Pre-k to 2nd grade.
Families Around the World is about 14 distinct families from all
around the world. The book discusses real-life incidents that
occur in families. This is an excellent book to use for windows
and mirrors since it allows a kid to view themselves in a book.

3. Title: Don’t Be Silly, Mrs. Millie
Author: Judy Cox
Illustrator: Joe Mathieu
Age group: Pre-k to 2nd grade.
Mrs. Millie enjoys taunting her kindergartners. She instructs
them to put up their goats, have gorilla cheese sandwiches,
and remember to wear their bats and kittens to recess. It's a
terrific book to use when introducing literacy and guided
reading in Key Stage 1 to expose the children to a new type of
genre or scaffold your literacy instruction on rhymes and
rhyming slang. It's paired with funny artwork that literally
translates each of Mrs.'s "mistakes." From this book, you
could move on to have the children produce their own
malapropisms, and at the nursery level, you might study
rhyming words using a flash cards play station. This is a good
book that is a great sliding door approach because it gives the
child a chance to use their imagination.

4. Title: Hidden Figures The True Story of Four Black Women and
The Space Race
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
Illustrator: Laura Freeman
Age group: Pre-k- 3rd Grade
Hidden Figures: The True Tale of Four African American
Women relates the story of four African American women,
Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and
Christine Darden, who all worked at NASA in excellent STEM
professions despite racial persecution. I selected this book
because it really hammers home the notion that children,
particularly girls, should appreciate themselves for what they
accomplish and should feel safe seeking out possibilities for
themselves if nothing unpleasant happens to them which is a
great book mirror and windows book because it let the children
see that they can be anything that they want to be.

5. Title: Pete the Cat and the Supercool Science
Fair
Author: James Dean
Illustrator: Katherine Dean
Age group: Pre-k to 3rd grade
Pete the Cat and his pals are excited to build the best
volcano ever for their school's science fair. Despite a
few unforeseen setbacks, the gang is finally ready.
However, after viewing their classmates' innovations,
they are left wondering if their volcano is good
enough to win first place. Pete, Gus, Squirrel, and
Callie learned that the experiment only succeeded
and went as well as it did because they collaborated.
It would not have worked as well if they had not
worked well together. They could only buy blue paint,
which was a mistake, but they went through with it
anyhow, and everyone liked it! I chose this book
because it is a pleasant method for youngsters to
learn about science and it shows them that anybody
can be a scientist and still have fun.

6. Title: A Family is a Family is a Family
Author: Sarah O’ Leary
Illustrator: Qin Leng
Age group: Pre-k to 2nd grade
A child is afraid to tell her friends about her family at school. However,
after the other kids start talking about their own unique family
situations, the students understand there is no such thing as a
"perfect" family. Instead, each family is unique. This narrative perfectly
conveys that families come in many forms and sizes, with some
having multiracial parents, some having adopted siblings, others
having same sex parents, and yet others having divorced parents.
This book would be ideal for opening a unit on families, having
students compare and contrast different family arrangements, or even
making a text-to-self and text-to-world link on what students know
about families and why they feel theirs is unique. This book is
inclusive in insuring that children see themselves in different ways.

7. The story is around a little child who has such intense sentiments that they
spill out of his fists and eyes. He empathizes when someone he cares about
is distressed. When things don't go as planned, he clenches his fists and
feels rage rush through his arms. His inner feelings exploded out of his chest
in a rainbow of hues for him. When the youngster enters school, he makes a
buddy, and they both attempt to keep their feelings hidden, but it's too
difficult. They both realize that it is okay to be emotional. It's okay to be sad,
pleased, angry, or terrified. I chose this book because it has mirrors and
windows for children to see themselves unhappy in the book and to learn
that it is normal to experience emotions.
Title: The Boy with Big, Big Feelings
Author: Britney Winn Lee
Illustrator: Jacob Souva
Age group: Pre-k to 3rd

8. Title: Feast For 10
Author: Cathryn Falwell
Illustrator: Cathryn Falwell
Age group: Pre-K
The story is a pleasant and lively depiction of a loving family (father,
mother, and numerous children) preparing a special supper (to which
the grandparents are invited) from grocery shopping to cooking to
gathering around and eating together. This is an excellent book for
teaching children about counting and family. The content on each
page is a carefully structured, clever poetry with a subtle, simple
rhythm and rhyme scheme: one cart inside the grocery shop / two
pumpkins for pie / three chickens to cook / four children going to hunt
for more.

9. Title: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You
See?
Author: Bill Martin Jr.
Illustrator: Eric Carle
Age group: Pre-K to Kindergarten
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear is a book in which several questions
regarding what the animal sees are asked. What do you see,
brown bear, brown bear? "I notice a red bird staring at me." A
brown bear, a read bird, a purple cat, a yellow duck, a blue horse,
and a teacher are among the creatures in the book. This book
was chosen because it teaches rhyming at a young age.

10. Title: Let’s Go For A Walk
Author: Ranger Hamza
Illustrator: Kate Kronreif
Age group: Pre-k to 1st grade
• Let's Go For A Walk encourages children to develop their
senses by going on a walk and listening to and smelling what
they observe. The book also discusses many forms, numbers,
and letters that may be found in our surroundings. This is an
excellent book to read before going for a stroll outside. This book
promotes windows and mirrors because it allows children to view
themselves in a book as well as the community in which they live.

11. Title: Just Like Me
Author: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Illustrator: Vanessa Brantley-
Newton
Age group: Pre-k to 3rd grade
Just Like Me is a book written for all females
who can see themselves in lyrical imagery
from varied origins, experiencing various
emotions and learning about themselves via
friendships, hardships, and rising self-esteem.
This book was chosen because it offers
windows and mirrors for females to view
themselves in a book.