The Ladybird
Land and Freshwater Turtles of Canada
Laura and the Flamingos
Laurent and the Tigers
Lea and the Barbary Apes
Learning About Animals
Learning About Ecosystems
Learning About Living Things
Learning Centers: Open-Ended Activities
The Learning Environment: A Practical Approach to the Education of the Three-, Four- and Five-year-old. 2nd ed.
Learning Resources Series
Learning With Zachary
The Leaving Morning
Lee, the Rabbit With Epilepsy
The Lemonade Babysitter
Lentil
Let Me Play
Let the Children Learn: A Culturally Relevant Handbook for Teachers in Band-Controlled Nursery/Kindergarten Programs
Let's Explore Science Series
Let's Go Home, Little Bear
Let's Take a Walk in the Park
The Life Cycles Series
Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children
Lisa and Sam
Listen to the Children
Literacy Development in the Early Years: Helping Children Read and Write. 2nd ed.
Literacy, Learning in the Early Years: Through Children's Eyes
Literacy 2000: Satellites Series
Literacy's Beginnings: Supporting Young Readers and Writers
The Little Cooks: Recipes From Around the World for Boys and Girls
The Little Engine That Could
Little Lumpty
Little Mo
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear
Little Nino's Pizzeria
Little Ones Learn Early
Lizzie and Harold
Look! Look! Look!
Look! Snow!
Look What I Found!
Looking at Young Children: Observing in Early Childhood Settings
Looney Tools: Inventing Technology
Lorien and the Capercaillie
Louis Antoine and the Crocodiles
Love Flute
Love the Earth
Love, Your Bear Pete
Ludivine and the Hippos
Luk Mume Luk Dade I Kan Rit
Lydie and the Lions
The Ladybird (Print-Non-Fiction). Monette, Lise. (Fauna in Colour Series). Quinton (QUP), 1992. 23 p. ISBN 2-920438-62-X ($10.95 hdc.), ISBN 2-920438-63-8 ($5.95 pbk.)
Originally published in French, this rhyme presents simple, interesting facts about ladybirds. The two-page spread, full-colour illustrations by Lise Monette are entertaining.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Land and Freshwater Turtles of Canada (Poster). Quintin (QUP), 1992. ISBN 2-89435-000-7 ($9.95 poster)
This 51 cm by 71 cm (20 in. by 28 in.) poster offers colourful pictures of all 10 of the species of land and freshwater turtles found in Canada.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Laura and the Flamingos (Video). (Children's Dreams Series). Multi Media Group (MHP), 1990. 7 min. Dup. order no. V7819
Laura expresses a desire (or dream) to discover firsthand the world of the flamingo. With the assistance of beautiful cinematography, the viewer is visually transported with the youngster to many parts of the world to visit the chosen subject.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Laurent and the Tigers (Video). (Children's Dreams Series). Multi Media Group (MHP), 1990. 7 min. Dup. order no. V7810
With the assistance of beautiful cinematography, the viewer is visually transported with Laurent to many parts of the world to visit tigers.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Lea and the Barbary Apes (Video). (Children's Dreams 2 Series). Multi Media Group (MHP), 1990. 7 min. Dup. order no. V8174
Eight-year-old Lea visits the Rock of Gibraltar to study the Barbary apes and discern how these monkeys first came to Gibraltar.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Learning About Animals (Kit). Graham, Kathryn, ed. (Series 1200 Primary). Robert B. Mansour (ETH), 1988. See order nos. below. ($20.00 each kit)
These kits offer activities and simple, but informative facts relating to animals in Canada.
Animals Need Things to Do/How Animals Satisfy Their Needs. Order no. 1220/1221. This kit includes 13 activity cards, two filmstrips, a project sheet, two concept sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
Animals Move/Animals' Homes. Order no. 1226/1227. This kit includes 12 activity cards, two filmstrips, two project sheets, four concept/reference sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
Animals Wild and Domestic/People and Animals. Order no. 1224/1225. This kit includes 14 activity cards, two filmstrips, two project sheets, three concept/reference sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
What Is an Animal?/Many, Many Animals. Order no. 1218/1219. This kit includes 12 activity cards, two filmstrips, five project sheets, four concept/reference sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Learning About Ecosystems (Kit). Graham, Kathryn, ed. (Series 1200 Primary). Robert Mansour (ETH), 1988. See order nos. below. ($20.00 each kit)
These kits offer activities and simple, but informative facts relating to ecosystems in Canada.
How Plants and Animals Help People/People and Nature. Order no. 1236/1237. This kit includes activity cards, two filmstrips, two concept sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
How Plants Help Animals/How Animals Help Plants. Order no. 1234/1235. This kit includes 16 activity cards, two filmstrips, two concept sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
Suggested Use: Themes - Animals, The Environment, Plants
Learning About Living Things (Kit). Graham, Kathryn, ed. (Series 1200 Primary). Robert Mansour (ETH), 1988. See order nos. below. ($20.00 each kit)
These kits include activities and simple information relating to plants and animals in Canada.
Plant or Animal?/Living or Non-living? Order no. 1228/1229. This kit includes eight activity cards, two filmstrips, four project sheets, two concept sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
Some Things Are the Same/Learn to Classify. Order no. 1230/1231. This kit includes 14 activity cards, two filmstrips, two project sheets, three concept/reference sheets, script for each filmstrip and two cassettes.
Suggested Use: Themes - Animals, Plants
Learning Centers: Open-Ended Activities (Print-Non-Fiction). Wilmes, Liz and Dick Wilmes. Building Blocks (MON), 1991. ISBN 0-943452-13-9 ($26.95 pbk.)
This resource highlights nine areas: "Art," "Blocks," "Language," "Dramatic Play," "Science," "Housekeeping," "Large Motor," "Manipulatives" and "Sand/Water." Each section features open-ended activities, special ideas for outside, an extensive supply list, easy-to-make learning aids and reproducible recipe cards, charts and patterns.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
The Learning Environment: A Practical Approach to the Education of the Three-, Four- and Five-year-old. 2nd ed. (Print-Non-Fiction). Nash, B. Chris. Collier Macmillan (BB), 1989. 206 p. Order no. BB 1137 ($17.90 pbk.)
This guide to the organization of activity-centred early childhood education programs addresses four dimensions of curriculum planning: time-scheduling, organizing classroom space, setting up learning centres and facilitating learning at those centres. The introduction explains The Learning Environment approach and the remaining contents are organized into five parts:"Time," "Space," "Things," "People" and "Student Growth and Program Development." This title is included in ECHO: Early Childhood Identification Through Observations: A Diagnostic Teaching Kit. Provides a table of contents and an index.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Learning Resources Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the following title annotated elsewhere in this document: Tangramables.
Learning With Zachary (Print-Non-Fiction). Laminack, Lester L. Scholastic (SCH), 1991. 104 p. ISBN 0-590-73823-2 ($9.00 pbk.)
This easy-to-read book documents 12 lessons that Zachary's dad learned about emerging literacy by recording observations of Zachary during his first five years. He explains how the real basis of literacy is making sense of the world. This would be an appropriate resource to make available on loan to parents/caregivers. Includes a table of contents.
Suggested Use: Parent/Caregiver Reference; Teacher Reference
The Leaving Morning (Print-Fiction). Johnson, Angela. Orchard (MCM), 1992. unp. ISBN 0-531-05992-8 ($19.95 hdc.)
The Leaving Morning is a young black child's perception of his last day before moving to a new home with his family. The author explores the emotions involved in saying goodbye. David Soman's two-page spread, realistic watercolours are exceptional.
Suggested Use: Special Topic - Moving; Themes - Feelings, Homes
Lee, the Rabbit With Epilepsy (Print-Fiction). Moss, Deborah. (Special Needs Collection Series). Woodbine House (MON), 1989. unp. ISBN 0-933149-32-8 ($19.95 hdc.)
Lee, the rabbit, is diagnosed as having epilepsy, but medicine to control her seizures reduces her worries and she learns she can still lead a normal life. This easy-to-read book takes a positive view of this condition. The illustrations by Carol Schwartz are realistic, colourful and detailed.
Suggested Use: Special Topic - Epilepsy; Theme - All About Me
The Lemonade Babysitter (Print-Fiction). Waggoner, Karen. Little, Brown. (LIT), 1992. unp. ISBN 0-316-91711-7 ($18.95 hdc.)
At first, Molly doesn't want to be babysat by elderly Mr. Herbert or anyone else. However, despite all Molly's efforts to discourage it, a beautiful friendship develops. The warm, picture-frame style illustrations by Dorothy Donohue were done in pastel shades.
Suggested Use: Themes - Feelings, Friends
Lentil (Video). (Robert McCloskey Library Series). Weston Woods (MHP), 1990. 9 min. Dup. order no. V8860
Some of the best of Robert McCloskey's books are animated in this series of programs. In this story, Lentil and his harmonica save the day when Colonel Carter comes to town and the marching band can't play a single note.
Suggested Use: Theme - Humour
Let Me Play (Print-Non-Fiction). Munroe, Elizabeth A. Scholastic (SCH), 1991. 101 p. ISBN 0-590-73822-4 ($9.00 pbk.)
Elizabeth A. Munroe combines academic knowledge with an understanding of a parent's perspective as she discusses the benefits of play and explores many types of play that children discover during their early childhood. This would be an appropriate resource to make available on loan to parents/caregivers. Includes a table of contents.
Suggested Use: Parent/Caregiver Reference; Teacher Reference
Let the Children Learn: A Culturally Relevant Handbook for Teachers in Band-Controlled Nursery/Kindergarten Programs (Print-Non-Fiction). Duquette, Lynn, et al. Saskatoon District Tribal Council (SDTC), 1989. 265 p. No order no. is needed. ($25.00 binder)
Let the Children Learn offers current and relevant material which was specifically designed for young children in Band-controlled Nursery and Kindergarten programs. It includes background information for the teacher, 16 seasonal units and a section on evaluation. Ideas that are appropriate to the Kindergarten curriculum could be gleaned from this comprehensive resource. It provides a table of contents and an annotated bibliography. Community, a supplemental theme unit is available to support this resource. Please refer to the annotation in this bibliography for further information on Community.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Let's Explore Science Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the following title annotated elsewhere in this document: Me and My Body.
Let's Go Home, Little Bear (Print-Fiction). Waddell, Martin. Candlewick (UTP), 1993. unp. ISBN 1-56402-131-9 ($16.95 hdc.), ISBN 1-56402-447-4 ($5.99 pbk.)
When Little Bear is frightened by the sounds he hears while walking in the snowy woods, Big Bear reassures him. Barbara Wirth's two-page spread watercolours are soft and warmly appealing.
Suggested Use: Themes - Forests, Senses, Winter
Let's Take a Walk in the Park (Print-Fiction). Crowdy, Deborah. (Five Senses Walk Series). The Child's World (SBC), 1986. unp. ISBN 0-89565-357-5 ($18.95 hdc.)
A young girl use her five senses while enjoying a walk in the park with her parents. Lois Axeman's illustrations are realistic and colourful.
Suggested Use: Themes - Parks, Senses
The Life Cycles Series (Print-Non-Fiction). Please refer to the following titles annotated elsewhere in this document: The Butterfly, The Dandelion, The Elephant, The Frog, The Honeybee, The Kangaroo, The Salmon and The Whale.
Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children ( Print-Non-Fiction). Mellonie, Bryan. Bantam (BAN), 1983. unp. ISBN 0-553-34023-9 ($12.95 pbk.)
This book explains life and death in a sensitive and simple, but not condescending fashion. It discusses beginnings, endings and life in between. The detailed, watercolour illustrations by Robert Igpen are exquisite.
Suggested Use: Special Topic - Death
Lisa and Sam (Print-Fiction). Pelletier, Darrell W. (Alfred Reading Series). Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI), 1992. unp. ISBN 0-920915-33-3 ($5.95 pbk.), ISBN 0-920915-37-X ($27.50 for Alfred Reading Series which includes 5 titles). Puppets - Edu-Play Toys (EPT), ($54.95 each character)
During her summer vacation, Lisa, a young Métis girl, catches a garter snake, names him Sam and wants to keep him. However, her mother explains that reptiles belong in their natural environment so Lisa returns Sam to the creek. The simple crayon illustrations are delightful. Puppets to accompany the Alfred Reading Series are available.
Suggested Use: Themes - Families, Summer, Vacations
Listen to the Children (Print-Non-Fiction). Zavitkovsky, Docia, et al. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 1986. 55 p. ISBN 0-935989-00-5 ($6.00 U.S. pbk.)
Listen to the Children is a collection of stories documented by Docia Zavitkovsky during her 40 years as an early childhood educator. There is humour in many of the stories, a touch of pathos in others. For every story there is a commentary, questions to consider and a black-and-white photograph by Jean Berlfein that captures the essence of the situation. The intent of the book is that individuals will enjoy and learn from the experiences, but it could also be used as a stimulus for discussion about how children feel and learn. This would be an appropriate resource to make available on loan to parents/caregivers.
Suggested Use: Parent/Caregiver Reference; Teacher Reference
Literacy Development in the Early Years: Helping Children Read and Write. 2nd ed. (Print-Non-Fiction). Morrow, Lesley Mandel. Prentice Hall (PRN), 1992. 244 p., ISBN 0-205-14043-2($44.67 pbk.)
This book deals with literacy development from birth to age seven years. Literacy development is viewed as an active procedure for the child in a social context with adults and peers, based on experiences with functional and meaningful purpose. Children's literature is one of the most important instructional materials used in the text so that the joy of early literacy experiences ensures lifelong reading habits. Examples of child dialogue, child writing samples, teacher responses and numerous pictures and illustrations make the material understandable, vivid, useful and interesting. Includes a table of contents, an appendices of support resources and an index.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Literacy, Learning in the Early Years: Through Children's Eyes (Print-Non-Fiction). Gibson, Linda. Teachers College Press (GUC), 1989. 170 p. ISBN 0-8077-2952-3 ($26.50 pbk.)
Combining a theoretical perspective with anecdotal observations of teachers and children, teacher-researcher, Linda Gibson, stresses connections and continuity within the total process of learning to read and write, from birth through age eight. In its treatment of emergent and early literacy, the book's four parts are organized according to age-level performance: "Birth Through Two," "The Three-Year-Old," "Four-and Five-Year-Olds" and "The Primary Years." Each phase is examined in relation to its unique contributions to and constraints upon the potential growth of literacy in young children. Holistic teaching strategies and programs appropriate for literacy acquisition are emphasized, as Linda Gibson focuses on ways to bring about a greater convergence between how teachers teach and how children learn. Includes a table of contents and an index.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Literacy 2000: Satellites Series (Print-Fiction/Print-Non-Fiction). Various Authors. (Literacy 2000 Satellites Series). Rigby (GIN), 1993. (See order nos. and prices below.)
These sets of simple, colourful paperbacks include traditional tales, poems, rhymes, songs, contemporary fiction and non-fiction science books. Each stage offers 24 books (three sets of eight books), plus teacher's resource.
The titles are as follows:
Stage 1. Order no. M76000 ($75.00 three sets). This includes:
Set A
Dancing Shoes
The Giant's Breakfast
I Paint
Let's Build a Tower
Miss Popple's Pets
My Grandfather's Face
My Home is High
Signs
Set B
Ben the Bold
Blue Day
Don't Leave Anything Behind
Filbert the Fly
I Like Green
Look Out!
What Is Red?
Yellow
Set C
Bubbles
Dad's Garden
Hat Trick
I Remember
Row Your Boat
The Train Ride
Water
Who Made These Tracks?
Stage 2. Order no. M78000 ($75.00 three sets). This includes:
Set A
Camping
Hands
Here's What I Made
I Can Do It Myself
In Went Goldilocks
The Puppet Show
Shopping
Woof!
Set B
At the Beach
The Circus Clown
Our Garden
Shadows
Sitting
The Storm
When I Pretend
Worms
Set C
Henry and the Helicopter
Koalas
Look at Me
Nests
Noses
Spots
Tails
Under My Bed
Stage 3. Order no. M79000 ($79.95 three sets). This includes:
Set A
Bossy Bettina
Can I Play Outside?
A Friend
Inside or Outside?
Little Miss Muffet
Old Mother Hubbard
Patterns
Water Falling
Set B
Family Photos
I Have a Question, Grandma
If You Like Strawberries, Don't Read This Book
Odd Socks
Ten Little Caterpillars
Trucks
The Two Little Mice
Words Are Everywhere
Set C
A Brand-new Butterfly
The Dinosaur's Cold
The Frog Princess
In the Park
Little Kid
Making Caterpillars and Butterflies
Only an Octopus
Wind and Sun
Stage 4. Order no. M82000 ($79.95 three sets). This includes:
Set A
The Big Green Caterpillar
The Giant's Cake
Goodness Gracious!
How Turtle Raced Beaver
Mice
Pete's New Shoes
Pizza for Dinner
Skin
Set B
Everybody Eats Bread
Gregor the Grublesome Giant
The Hair Party
How Fire Came to Earth
Trees
Vagabond Crabs
Whatever Will These Become?
White Wednesday
Set C
Gallo and Zooro
Half for You, Half for Me
Hippo's Hiccups
Monkey and Fire
The Queen's Parrot
Rice Cakes
Special Things
Too Much Noise
Suggested Use: Themes - Various
Literacy's Beginnings: Supporting Young Readers and Writers (Print-Non-Fiction). McGee, Lea M. and Donald J. Richgels. Allyn & Bacon (PRN), 1990. 467 p. ISBN 0-205-12045-8 ($51.33 pbk.)
This book is intended to help readers to be aware and supportive of children's literacy knowledge as it grows and changes in early childhood. Literacy learning is presented in five parts. The first part provides an overview and important background information. The next three parts describe literacy learning in terms of first steps, transitions and accomplishments. Each part describes a cluster of literacy knowledge which is followed by extensive descriptions of classroom supports for children who exhibit that knowledge. Includes a table of contents, a name index and a subject index.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
The Little Cooks: Recipes From Around the World for Boys and Girls (Print-Non-Fiction). Tharlet, Eve. UNICEF (UFS), 1987. unp. Order no. 93653B ($16.00 coil-bound)
This cookbook offers step-by-step, colourfully illustrated instructions for favourite recipes of children from 36 different countries. Includes a map and practical advice.
Suggested Use: Themes - Various
The Little Engine That Could (Print-Fiction). Piper, Watty. Platt and Munk (BEJ), 1976. unp. ISBN 0-448-40520-2 ($7.75 hdc.), ISBN 0-448-40071-5 ($3.95 small book-hdc.)
This old favourite often inspires discussion about persistence. The smaller version is just the right fit for Kindergarten-size hands. The simple, colourful illustrations by George and Doris Hauman are warm and lighthearted.
Suggested Use: Themes - All About Me, Transportation
Little Lumpty (Print-Fiction). Imai, Miko. Candlewick (UTP), 1994. unp. ISBN 1-56402-233-1 ($17.95 hdc.)
This debut of author and illustrator, Miko Imai is a tale of a chance taken and a dream come true as Lumpty, the egg, returns safely from climbing the wall that his predecessor, Humpty, fell from so many years ago. The simple, watercolour illustrations aptly depict the feelings of excitement, fear, remorse and relief that Lumpty experiences during his adventure.
Suggested Use: Themes - Feelings, Nursery Rhymes
Little Mo (Print-Fiction). Waddell, Martin. Candlewick (UTP), 1993. unp. ISBN 1-56402-211-0 ($17.95 hdc.)
At first, Mo, the polar bear, isn't very successful at learning to skate. However, she persists and at last experiences the sweetness of success. Jill Barton's watercolour illustrations softly convey the "ups and downs" of this experience.
Suggested Use: Themes - Feelings, Winter
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear (Print-Fiction). Wood, Don and Audrey Wood. Child's Play (CPI), 1991. unp. ISBN 0-85953-182-1 ($18.95 hdc.), ISBN 0-85953-012-4 ($9.95 pbk.)
An imaginative little mouse finds a big, delicious strawberry and works hard to keep it from a big hungry bear who never does appear. He invites readers to share half of it with him. The full-colour, two-page-spread illustrations by Don Wood are especially delightful.
Suggested Use: Themes - Food, Imagination
Little Nino's Pizzeria (Print-Fiction). Barbour, Karen. (HBJ Big Book Series). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBC), 1987. unp. ISBN 0-15-246322-4 ($25.00 big book - pbk.)
Tony likes to help his father at their small family restaurant, but things change for the worse when Little Nino's Pizzeria is closed and Big Nino opens. Karen Barbour's vivid paintings were done in gouache and watercolours.
Suggested Use: Themes - Families, People at Work, Restaurants
Little Ones Learn Early (Video). Frontier School Division (MAG), 1987. 30 min. Order no. 119-31-104 ($99.00)
Set in a Cree community, this video focuses on parenting practices that enhance the growth and development of the whole child and make learning a positive experience. This would be a suitable resource to make available on loan to parents/caregivers or to use in inservice with them.
Suggested Use: Parent/Caregiver Reference; Teacher Reference
Lizzie and Harold (Print-Fiction). Winthrop, Elizabeth. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (MCM), 1986. 32 p. ISBN 0-688-02712-1 ($19.95 hdc.)
Lizzie desperately wants a best friend and, at first, she thinks it has to be a girl. She finally realizes that Harold, the boy next door, has been her best friend all along. The full-colour illustrations by Martha Weston are lively and appealing.
Suggested Use: Theme - Friends
Look! Look! Look! (Print-Non-Fiction). Hoban, Tana. Greenwillow (MCM), 1988. unp. ISBN 0-688-07240-2 ($22.95 hdc.)
A solid black page with a small cut-out rectangle precedes and offers a glimpse of each of Tana Hoban's nine superb, colourful photographs that follow. This allows viewers the opportunity to use their observational and thinking skills to try to guess the subject of the photograph on the next page. A second photograph of each item offers viewers a different perspective of the same subject.
Suggested Use: Theme - Senses
Look! Snow! (Print-Fiction). Galbraith, Kathryn O. McElderry (DIS), 1992. unp. ISBN 0-689-50551-5 ($17.95 hdc.)
In this almost wordless picture book, the first snowfall brings great excitement to a town. The children sled, make snow angels, build a snowman and enjoy hot chocolate. The large, action-filled pictures were done in coloured pencil and oil stick by Nina Montezinos.
Suggested Use: Theme - Winter
Look What I Found! (Print-Fiction). Sharratt, Nick. ( A Changing Picture Book). Candlewick (UTP), 1992. unp. ISBN 1-56402-017-7 ($11.95 hdc.)
A young girl and her father have an enjoyable day exploring on the beach. As readers lift the flaps, the pair's discoveries are revealed. Nick Sharratt's simple, childlike illustrations are bright and colourful.
Suggested Use: Themes - Beaches, Senses, Vacations
Looking at Young Children: Observing in Early Childhood Settings (Video). Center for Early Education (GUC), 1988. 15 min. Order no. V04-VHS ($122.50)
This video focuses on how to make careful systematic observations of young children in order to make inferences regarding them. It was developed to assist instructors who teach observation skills in early childhood settings. The concepts that provide the foundation for this presentation were drawn from The Classroom Observer: Developing Observation Skills in Early Childhood Settings by Ann E. Boehm and Richard A. Weinberg.
Suggested Use: Teacher Reference
Looney Tools: Inventing Technology (Print-Non-Fiction). Drew, David. (Ginn Realization Technology Series). Ginn (GIN), 1993. 16 p. ISBN 0-7312-0660-6 ($35.00 set -pbk.)
Looney Tools introduces young children to how and why tools work. The left-hand pages show the conventional tools. The right-hand pages show the same tools "re-invented" with a number of differences. Some of the re-invented tools will not work, while others may have new uses. By noticing the differences in the re-invented tools, students can better appreciate the way the conventional tools work. The illustrations by Stephen Axelsen are accurate and colourful. Includes a big book and four small books of the same title.
Suggested Use: Theme - Tools
Lorien and the Capercaillie (Video). (Children's Dreams 2 Series). Multi Media Group (MHP), 1990. 7 min. Dup. order no. V8193
Lorien wants to study the great capercaillie, a bird that has never been domesticated. This bird which hides in the purple flowered heather is one of the largest birds in France. In French, the bird is also known as "Coq de Bruyere" which means the "heather hen." The capercaillies' population is declining. The big hen is very distrustful and difficult to find.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Louis Antoine and the Crocodiles (Video). (Children's Dreams Series). Multi Media Group (MHP), 1990. 7 min. Dup. order no. V7829
Louis Antoine expresses a desire (or dream) to discover firsthand the world of the crocodile. With the assistance of beautiful cinematography, the viewer is visually transported with the youngster to many parts of the world to visit the chosen subject.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Love Flute (Print-Fiction). Goble, Paul. Bradbury Press (DIS), 1992. unp. ISBN 0-02-736261-2 ($19.50 hdc.)
In this legend a young Plains Aboriginal man is frustrated because he is too shy to tell a young woman that he loves her. One night help arrives when some animals present him with the gift of a flute with which he expresses his love in music. The paintings by Paul Goble are exquisitely detailed.
Suggested Use: Theme - Feelings
Love the Earth (Print-Non-Fiction). Claycomb, Patty. Partner Press (MON), 1991. ISBN 0-933212-47-X ($21.95 pbk.)
This idea book contains learning experiences which promote the awareness of nature, of life around us and of the earth in general. It encourages students to explore and discover the world. Includes a table of contents and an index.
Suggested Use: Theme - The Environment
Love, Your Bear Pete (Print-Fiction). Sheldon, Dyan. Candlewick (UTP), 1994. unp. ISBN 1-56402-332-X ($16.95 hdc.)
Although she misses her stuffed bear after he is left behind on the bus, a young girl enjoys the post cards he sends her from faraway places. The visuals by Tania Hurt-Newton are attractively done in acrylic paints.
Suggested Use: Themes - Toys, Transportation, Travel
Ludivine and the Hippos (Video). (Children's Dreams Series). Multi Media Group (MHP), 1990. 7 min. Dup. order no. V7811
Ludivine expresses a desire (or dream) to discover firsthand the world of the hippopotamus. With the assistance of beautiful cinematography, the viewer is visually transported with the youngster to many parts of the world to visit the chosen subject.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals
Luk Mume Luk Dade I Kan Rit (Print-Non-Fiction). Villiers, Una. Scholastic (SCH), 1989. 92 p. ISBN 0-590-71701-4 ($11.99 coil-bound)
With warmth, humour and understanding, Una Villiers chronicles the early steps taken by a group of inner-city school children as they learn to write naturally. It includes numerous samples of children's emergent writing. This would be an appropriate resource to make available on loan to parents/caregivers.
Suggested Use: Parent/Caregiver Reference; Teacher Reference
Lydie and the Lions (Video). (Children's Dreams 2 Series). Multi Media Group (MHP), 1990. 7 min. Dup. order no. V8198
A young girl named Lydie from Paris, France travels to the savannas of the Masai country in Kenya to see a lion. She learns that lions live in families in which females do all the work including attacking prey. She also learns that lions are dangerous and difficult to approach.
Suggested Use: Theme - Animals