Peter Sis
3) The dreamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Appears on list
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
4) Beach ball
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
While at the beach, Mary and her mother see letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and more.
7) Komodo!
Author
Pub. Date
c 1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy who loves dragons goes with his parents to the Indonesian island of Komodo in hopes of seeing a real dragon. Includes factual information about the Komodo dragon.
8) Fire Truck
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.
11) Animal sense
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A collection of poems that tells how such animals as alligators, bats, penguins, bumble bees, and skunks use their different senses.
13) Ice cream summer
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream.
15) Robinson
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Robin and his friends are planning to dress up as pirates for their school's annual costume party, but instead his mother creates a Robinson Crusoe costume for him, and while the adults love it, his friends are less welcoming.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Peter Sís's remarkable biography The Pilot and the Little Prince celebrates the author of The Little Prince, one of the most beloved books in the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot-and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled...
18) Scranimals
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated collection of poems about the mysterious creatures--jumbles of birds, beasts, vegetables, and flowers--that populate Scranimal Island.
19) Madlenka
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.