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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

Focus & Self-Control

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Infant / Toddler
This cheerful board book engages young children’s minds and bodies. It introduces them to a classic song while teaching them several parts of the body. Use it to get little ones up and moving! Demonstrates diversity/inclusion. Available in bilingual edition
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Taking on Challenges

My Truck is Stuck

Infant / Toddler
With rhyming text and bright illustrations, young children and their caregivers will enjoy finding out just how stuck one big red dump truck can be. As more and more passing travelers pitch in to help, readers will appreciate the subtle plot twists and counting lessons.
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Making Connections

Alphabet City

Preschool
Alphabet City is a stunning series of paintings from city landscapes. The artist has captured each letter of the alphabet as it naturally occurs in city surroundings.
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Focus & Self-Control

The Art Lesson

School Age
Tommy is a creative kid who loves to draw until a strict teacher makes him follow the rules of her art class. An autobiographical story by beloved author Tomie DePaola, this is an empowering ode to creativity!
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Making Connections

I Am Different! Can You Find Me?

School Age
This inventive, interactive book is a global celebration of differences! Children learn to say “Can you find me?” in 16 different languages as they hunt for the object in each picture that is different from the others. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion. Multilingual.
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Self-Directed, Engaged Learning

The View from Saturday

School Age
The View from Saturday is about the journeys of four children to become a group they call The Souls. They are, somewhat unexpectedly, chosen by their sixth grade teacher to compete in the Academic Bowl team against seventh and eight graders. Their teacher, Mrs. Olinski, was often asked why she had chosen these four children and she didn’t have a good answer. The book is about her journey, too—a journey of returning to teaching after a crippling car accident ten years earlier. Demonstrates diversity/inclusion. Available in Spanish.
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