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[Image Description:  The image shows a picture of the book titled "Fish in a Tree" as an aqua colored book cover with an aqua colored fish in a light green tree with "Lynda Mullaly Hunt" in center-aligned white text at the top and "FISH IN A TREE" in bright pink to light blue to dark blue to light orange to turquoise to bright green to light green center-aligned bubble letters. ]     Fish in a Tree written by Lynda Mullaly Hunt is about a sixth grader named Ally Nickerson with undiagnosed dyslexia. Ally is frequently sent to the principal's office and has switched schools seven times in seven years because teachers just cannot seem to figure her out nor reach her. Every time Ally is enrolled at a new school, she hides her inability to read by creating disruptive distractions, which is common among students in the learning disability community to do out of frustration about their challenges. Ally experiences frequent bullying, especially from her peers ...

[Image Description: There is a 6 photo collage of the following books: Good Night Bath Time  written by Adam Gamble and illustrated by Mark Jasper, If I were a reindeer...  written and illustrated by Anne Wilkinson, Runaway Bunny written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, The Very Hungry Caterpillar written and illustrated by Eric Carle, I Can, Can You? written and photographed by Marjorie W. Pitzer, and The Little Engine That Could written by Watty Piper and illustrated by Cristina Ong. "18 Book Recommendations for Infants and Toddlers" is in center-aligned teal text with 1 and 8 in "18" as keycap digit emojis. ] As many of you know, I love to collect children's books and teachers read several books to their students every year.  In this week's blog post, the below featured picture books are developmentally appropriate and fun for any child ages 0-3. These are some my most absolute favorite infant and toddler books of all time. Short b...

                              [Image Description: The bright orange hardcover of the children's book titled "HORTON HEARS A WHO!" written by Dr. Seuss is pictured with the title displayed in center-aligned diagonal white text at the top and the author's name in center-aligned white text in the bottom right corner. Horton is displayed as a cartoon white elephant with large ears, small eyes, and a long trunk. The book is laying on a wooden light brown desk. ]     During January to April of 2024, I was assigned to be a student teacher in a first grade classroom of twenty-two students in a Catholic school in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On March 1, 2024, I read Horton Hears a Who to my students in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday coming up. I told my mentor teacher that I performed in Seussical the Musical in high school, and she thought that that was so cool. She asked me if I had any pictures that ...

                                  [Image Description: The book called "Thank You, Mr. Falker" written by Patricia Polacco is laying on a red, yellow, blue, and purple quilt. "PATRICIA POLACCO" is in center-aligned black text at the top of the book cover. "Thank You, Mr. Falker" is in left-aligned maroon text under "PATRICIA POLACCO." At the bottom of the page, there is a big picture of Trisha (left) wearing a dress and sitting at a table looking at the inside of a book with Mr. Falker (right) standing next to her and wearing a green jacket and red collar and smiling with his fingers on his chin. There are hands of another child holding a book and pointing to the bottom pages in the bottom right corner of the book cover. The rest of the background of the book cover is white. ] I am uploading this blog post in honor of Patricia Polacco's 80th Birthday being today!  🥳❤️🎂🎁🪅🎉🎊🎈  Patri...