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Skill-Building Book Tips

Turn storytime into skill-building time.

These free, downloadable resources offer tips for building children’s life skills based on classic and diverse children’s books.

With content customized to each book, Book Tips help boost science-driven learning, fun and engagement between children and adults. These resources are available in English and Spanish and designed for three age groups, infants and toddlers, preschoolers and school-age.

Educators can also access Book Tips through a partnership with First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides books and educational materials for educators serving children in need.

Books & Tips that Promote Life Skills

Making Connections

Not A Box

Infant / Toddler
A box is just a box, or is it? There are no limits to what a box can be in a rabbit’s imagination in this creative book.
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Perspective Taking

Fish is Fish

Preschool
When Fish’s best friend, Tadpole, sprouts legs, ventures onto land and comes back with glorious descriptions, Fish yearns to see for himself. Quickly, he discovers that “frog is frog and fish is fish,” and as a fish, the pond is the best place for him.
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Taking on Challenges

Brontorina

Preschool
Brontorina, the dinosaur, dreams of becoming a ballerina so she approaches Madame Lucille’s Dance Academy. In this charming story of friendship and support, there are many challenges to face before Brontorina’s dream can come true.
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Communicating

The Storyteller’s Candle

School Age
This bilingual English/Spanish picture book tells the story of two cousins who have come to America from Puerto Rico and assume the local library is off-limits to them until Pura Belpré (New York City’s first Latina librarian) teaches them otherwise. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion. Bilingual.
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Critical Thinking

Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook

School Age
Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook begins with the theft of a fish in Edgar’s fifth grade classroom and a poem left as a clue. Other thefts and mysterious clues follow, that Edgar often in competition, sometimes in cooperation with his classmates, become passionate about solving.
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Making Connections

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

Infant / Toddler
In this sweet book, young children meet a cast of smiling, round-cheeked babies from around the world as they’re told about a universal trait that (almost) all babies have in common. Bouncy rhymes and repetition make this a wonderful read-aloud for babies and toddlers. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion. Available in a bilingual edition.
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