RESOURCES
Blue Dot Kids Press is pleased to provide free Teacher's Guides, Activity Kits, and Coloring Sheets to enrich readers' experience of our books. Our Teacher's Guides are developed by professional educators and offer extensive teaching ideas, curricular connections, and activities that can be adapted to many different educational settings.
MY FAVORITE MEMORIES
ISBN: 9781733121248
This beautifully simple story about moving to a new home explores themes of change and permanence with warm illustrations from an award-winning illustrator.
A young girl is moving to a new country, and there’s so much that she wants to bring: an aquarium, a pear tree, her best friend, the ocean. As she moves through the list of the things she loves, she comes to understand that while we cannot always carry things with us physically—maybe they can travel with us in other ways.
Told with warm illustrations by an award-winning picture book illustrator, My Favorite Memories offers parents and educators a gentle but impactful way to discuss the idea of resilience along with complex life events like immigration and moving to a new home.
A joyfully written celebration of birds and imaginative play from an award-winning author-and-illustrator team. Introducing an array of beautiful birds to young readers, Ivy Bird is a celebration of the natural world. Perfect for reading aloud, children will love the search-and-find element of the book, its bright illustrations, and the exuberant story. A non-fiction element, two pages bursting with colorful bird illustrations, encourages readers to seek out birds in their own backyards.
IVY BIRD
ISBN: 9781733121217
UNDER MY TREE
ISBN: 9781733121231
A modern take on Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree that celebrates the friendship between a curious child and her favorite tree. This wonderful introduction to trees for young children gently cultivates an appreciation for nature. Interwoven in the fiction text are unique facts about trees and simple activities that encourage readers to touch, smell, and observe the world around them.
WHO WILL IT BE?
ISBN: 9781733121200
If gills appear, will it be a fish? From fish to frogs to humans, Who Will It Be? introduces the theory of evolution, exploring connections between humans and all life on Earth. Vibrant illustrations and eye-catching primary colors transition the story, driving the young reader’s curiosity as they try to discover Who Will It Be? An appendix includes in-depth information about evolutionary science—perfect for parents facing the age-old question: Where did I come from?
