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Read Aloud Books
Click on the book cover to watch a read aloud of our favorite books!
Links to resources & activities correspond to each book.
Iggy Peck: Architect
By: Andrea Beaty
By: Andrea Beaty
Iggy Peck loves to build things and solve problems, sometimes out of the strangest materials. His teacher declares that she is not a fan of architecture. WIll Iggy be able to win her over?
Beautiful Oops
By: Barney Saltzberg
A singular work of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops! is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion “telescope”—each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder.
7 Read-Aloud Books That Celebrate Creativity
Life is a continuous wild rumpus for some children — the ones with crazy imaginations who can make a game out of anything. (As when a pile of pencil shavings becomes a crash pad for eraser base jumpers — true story.) But unfettered creativity doesn’t come easily to all school-aged children, especially in our schools that focus on correct answers, time limits, and longer workdays at the expense of play and creation. One simple step we can take to let our students know that divergent thinking is important and brave and fun is to read books that encourage creativity. Here are seven of my favorites.
Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, which will tease and delight readers of all ages.