For Educators

Reward your readers with Mo Willems! Let your favorite Mo Willems characters cheer on your new readers with these colorful reading certificates. Certificates measure 5.5" x 8.5" and come in a pack of 50 - enough for the whole classroom!

Oversized picture book perfect for sharing in classrooms!

A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as the history, culture, and geography of the African nation of Zimbabwe.

This oversize edition (14 3/4 by 17 5/8 inches) makes it easy to share the book in a library or classroom.

Inspired by a traditional African folktale, this is the story of Mufaro, who is proud of his two beautiful daughters. Nyasha is kind and considerate, but everyone--except Mufaro--knows that Manyara is selfish and bad-tempered.

When the Great King decides to take a wife and invites the most worthy and beautiful daughters in the land to appear before him, Mufaro brings both of his daughters--but only one can be queen. Who will the king choose?

Award-winning artist John Steptoe's rich cultural imagery of Africa earned him the Coretta Scott King Award for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. The book also went on to win the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. This stunning story is a timeless treasure that readers will enjoy for generations.

Plastic drawstring bag featuring Mo Willems' Pigeon. Great for party favors! Bag measures 17" H x 14" W x 3" D.

Teach little learners all about the basics with the help of Eric Carle^™! Featuring a shapes poster, colors poster, days of the week poster, numbers poster, months of the year poster and alphabet poster, these engaging posters are a great way to lay down a foundation of the basics for students. A quality addition to teacher supplies, keep these handy posters up year-round as a quick visual reference for little learners.

Set of 6 cardstock posters. Each poster measures approximately 17" x 22".

A new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime and getting kids to think with their eyes.

Traditional storytime often offers a passive experience for kids, but the Whole Book approach asks the youngest of readers to ponder all aspects of a picture book and to use their critical thinking skills. Using classic examples, Megan asks kids to think about why the trim size of Ludwig Bemelman's Madeline is so generous, or why the typeset in David Wiesner's Caldecott winner, The Three Pigs, appears to twist around the page, or why books like Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar are printed landscape instead of portrait. The dynamic discussions that result from this shared reading style range from the profound to the hilarious and will inspire adults to make children's responses to text, art, and design an essential part of storytime.

Twelve 3' x 3" strips for a total length of 36'. Straight edges for easy use and continuity of design.

Oversized picture book perfect for sharing in classrooms!

The author and artist Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate her gorgeous picture book The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest (1990). One day, a man exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest's residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how "all living things depend on one another" . . . and it works. Cherry's lovingly rendered colored pencil and watercolor drawings of all the "wondrous and rare animals" evoke the lush rain forests, as well as stunning world maps bordered by tree porcupines, emerald tree boas, and dozens more fascinating creatures.

Awards: IRA Teacher's Choice (1991), ABA's Pick of the Lists, Reading Rainbow Review Book, NSTA-CBC Outstanding Trade Book for Children

From award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems, this set of movable decals brings the Pigeon and his antics out of the pages of the book and right onto your wall! The set includes blank dry erase speech bubbles so you can add your own words to complete the story.

This set includes 15 movable decals per package:

• One 19.5" x 12" puppy
• Four pigeons (ranging in size from 3.5"w to 10"h
• Two speech bubbles with pre-written text (4"x4" and 6.5"x4.5")
• Two blank dry erase speech bubbles (5" x 6.5" and 5.5" x 3"). Dry erase marker not included.
• Six 1" feathers

Oversized picture book perfect for sharing in classrooms!

2013 Eric Carle LLC. Licensed by Chorion Rights Limited.