Cathy Warren

This is a great story for beginner readers, because the sentences are simple and the vocabulary in the book is simple. For example, the first sentence of the book is, "There are three children in Fred's family," this is an example of the many simple sentences in the book. This book is also good for schools that have a lot of diversity because the main character and his family are African American. This book is also a great story for children, because students can relate to the first day of school. Student's can also relate to Fred because he tends to be clumsier than he realizes. The book shows good lessons, by showing how Fred has become more aware of his surroundings. On the beginning of Fred's first day he ended up knocking over a bunch of students towers, and accidentally bumping into a girl and she scraped her knee. At the end of the book, Fred apologized and gave the students hugs. This is a good lesson to show children that you can be forgiven for a small mistake. Another lesson is that just because you have a rough start to the day, doesn't mean your day will stay like that.… (más)

This book is an easy book to introduce counting numbers. The book starts off with a family of ten armadillos who go on a camp out. The mom always mentions that 10 makes a perfect, even family. While sleeping in their shells the armadillos roll all over town.. The towns people pick them up thinking they are different things, such as food and balls. When they realize they are not these items they panic and get upset. They all end up back at the camp site and wake up to return home. All ten, perfect armadillos return home. This would be a good book to read when talking about the number 10 or even numbers.… (más)