Review: Maebelle's Hat
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2013
Maebelle's Hat is a short story about the farm animals taking shelter during a tornado. Willy goes to the meadow to get Maebelle the cow & the wind takes her hat. He goes after it as the 'nado' approaches.  Maebelle's Hat shows friendship, consideration and concern for friends as lessons to point out as this book is read to young children.  It also introduces the subject of what a tornado is and why the animals were taking shelter as a children's science book.  Children enjoy hearing stories more than once so when a book has several ways to present it, interest is added and as knowledge is taught by integrating areas of study.  In the first example, social/emotional skills are part of a literacy presentation of a book and in the second science is mixed with reading.