Board Books have cardboard pages and are indestructible by infants. Five fingers mean the book is too hard, but three mean just right. Charlotte s Web , and the infamous Harry Potter books. The Folk and Fairy Tale section ranges from picture book version of favorite tales like The Three Bears and Cinderella , good for younger kids, to novel-length retellings of legends like King Arthur and Robin Hood for older kids. Includes children s folklore like urban legends, traditional ghost stories, jump rope chants, and Mother Goose rhymes.
Nonfiction books are good for homework, but they re also good for pleasure reading.
In Fiction , Nonfiction , and Biography Watch for a strip of black tape on books in Fiction , Nonfiction , and Biography . Good for a typical second or third grader, or anyone not quite ready for long books. You can find both kinds of life story in this section, all arranged in order by the person s last name. We usually shelve these books in the Series Book Section . Some of our series include Junie B. Jones , The Boxcar Children , and Animorphs .