TIGER TALES - PICTURE BOOKS: Look Out, Ladybug AND Snack Time for Confetti

Ladybug is learning to fly. She keeps practicing, but she's still bumping into everyone - an elephant, a tiger, a chimp. Ladybug's friends encourage her to keep trying, right up to "the end."

Cute book - great illustrations to pour over. Fun un-folding page for the ending. This will be a fun one to read out loud to my students in the fall

4 out of 5 stars
AR reading level of 1.4

Confetti (the baby bird from Stileman's Roly-Poly Egg) is hungry. All of her friends invite Confetti to try their favorite snacks. But Confetti doesn't like any of those foods. Will she ever find something yummy to eat?

Kali Stileman is one of my favorite Tiger Tales authors. The illustrations on her books are gorgeous! Love the sweet characters in this fun, simple story.

4 out of 5 stars
No AR level at this time.

TIGER TALES: Big Book of My World by Kali Stileman

Excellent!! I enjoy the illustration styles of Kali Stileman! And the first page is a counting page of owls - I didn't nee to look at anything more to love this book.

It covers counting, shapes, colors, sounds, opposites, etc. I'm not sure my elementary library is the right setting for this book, but I am going to put it in anyway because it is so well done (or I may just keep it for inspiration. It's absolutely lovely.). My kindergarten students will enjoy it and some of the older kids will look at it just for the great illustrations. This book makes me wish I had more preschool kids to buy this for!

5 out of 5 stars

TIGER TALES WEEK: Roly Poly Egg and My Mom Has X-ray Vision

Summary 
Two of my favorites of the Spring releases from Tiger Tales!


In Roly Poly Egg, Splotch the bird's new egg rolls off the tree branch and enjoys a journey with the animals in the jungle until rolling back to Splotch and hatching.


In My Mom Has X-ray Vision a boy named Matthew wonders how his mom always knows what he is up to, especially when he is doing something he shouldn't be.

Review

The artwork in both books are stellar! In Roly-Poly, the scenes and animals look like they have been paper-pieced together. Splotch and the baby bird look just like a splotch of paint. Readers can follow the egg's journey through the jungle by following the gray dotted line. At the end, a paper egg opens to reveal the baby bird. Absolutely darling! My "best of the batch."


My son gives X-ray Vision "200 stars." The illustrations are colorful and appealing. I love that Matthew's community has ethnic diversity. And the premise is 100% perfect for kids at the picture-book age. My son often asks, "How did you know?" when I catch him at something. Just what a picture book should be.



Roly-Poly Egg: 5 out of 5 stars

My Mom Has X-ray Vision: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Recommended for: children under 8 for Roly-Poly, under 10 for X-ray Vision. Roly-Poly would also make a beautiful gift book - watch little ones with the hatching egg, though. Both would be wonderful for read-alouds, although kids might be frustrated that they can't trace the egg's journey on the page when it is read to a large group.


Cautions: hatching egg could be torn if little readers get ahold of it without supervision.


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