‘The Parent Backpack for Kindergarten through Grade 5’
By ML Nichols
Author ML Nichols offers tips for children to get the most from their education and suggests ways for parents to get involved. This “straight-talking guide” will help parents better understand their role in their child’s education, how to speak with educators and minimize homework meltdowns. Also included are tips about bullying and how to encourage a love for reading. By Ten Speed Press.
‘Weelicious Lunches: Think Outside the Lunchbox’
By Catherine McCord
Both a cookbook and a how-to guide, this book addresses every parent’s struggle to pack school lunches for kids with food allergies, picky eaters and individual tastes. With easy-to-make recipes for homemade snacks and lunches to eat at home or pack for school, this book provides a little variety for both parents and kids. William Morrow Cookbooks.
‘Where Do I Live?’
By Kristine Duehl
The second book in author Kristine Duehl’s “Budding Biologist” series introduces kids in preschool to second grade to scientific vocabulary and ideas such as climate change, adaptation and endangered species to get them better in tune with the natural world. In accurate, comic-book-style illustrations, this text teaches kids about nature with accuracy but is still entertaining. By Budding Biologist.
