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In Times Past
an eBook on CD
by Carol Hurst and Rebecca Otis

Integrating US History with Literature in Grades 3-8.

Enliven your US History curriculum!

Teach US History using great kids books.

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Making Faces

by Nick Butterworth. (Candlewick, 1993 ISBN 1-56402-212-9). Picture Book. Grades Pre-K+.
This review by Carol Otis Hurst first appeared in Teaching K-8 Magazine.

Review

For the preschool set, I like Nick Butterworth's Making Faces. His earlier One Bear at Bedtime (Little, 1988 ISBN 0 316 41889 7) remains one of my all time favorite counting books. In Making Faces Butterworth has given us something which is half gimmick and half book and, most of the time, I am put off by that combination because the gimmick usually breaks or gives out leaving us with half a whole. This one is more successful than most. In the back, but firmly and cleverly attached to the book is a page sized mirror. We unfold it and can look into it while sharing the book with a young one. The book encourages us to make all kinds of faces showing our feelings in various situations. This could be tedious but in Butterworth's hands it succeeds and should help parent and child explore a lot of positive ways to recognize and express feelings.