New Releases by Dona Herweck Rice

Join a family as they spend the day visiting various places in town. They'll visit a library, fire station, city hall, and an ice cream parlor as they learn about the importance of community. This differentiated script features roles written to match multiple reading levels. Teachers can assign specific roles to their readers based on everyone's current reading level, allowing all readers to get involved in the same activity and feel successful! Students will gain confidence in their reading fluency through performance, regardless of their current reading ability. While performing with others, students will practice performance, interacting cooperatively, reading aloud, and using expressive voices and gestures to better tell the story.

Animals talk with sounds, but they talk with their bodies, too! This engaging book teaches beginning readers about different ways that animals communicate. Engage students in reading as they develop their early childhood literacy skills. With TIME For Kids content, this full-color book is aligned to state and national standards, and introduces students to simple informational text features.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Early readers learn about wings, wing anatomy, and animal flight in this descriptive nonfiction reader that features informational text, vivid photos, and a glossary to support instruction.

Featuring TIME For Kids content, this nonfiction reader introduces students to the science behind tongue twisters. This high-interest title will keep students engaged in reading as they build their critical literacy skills.

This picture book teaches young readers that simple tools are everywhere, making their lives easier. Featuring vivid images and simple, repetitive words and phrases, students will be eager to learn about simple tools. This title correlates to Next Generation Science Standards with a focus on engineering.

This picture book teaches young readers all about their amazing hands! Featuring vibrant images and simple, repetitive words and phrases, students will be eager to learn all about the wonderful things their amazing hands can do.

This picture book teaches young readers all about their amazing feet! Featuring vibrant images and simple, repetitive words and phrases, students will be eager to learn all about the wonderful places their feet can take them and the wonderful things their feet can do.

Join a family as they spend a fun-filled day at the beach! This brightly illustrated book helps build foundational reading skills and encourages a shared reading experience. The vivid images work together with the rhyming text to help beginning readers understand the story and describe what they see.

What feelings do you wear on your face? This charmingly illustrated book allows readers to discover and recognize many different emotions--from shy to mad. The clear, simple text and lively, colorful illustrations will delight readers and leave them wearing a smile on their face!

Introduces the frog and its life cycle, from its beginnings with a female frog in a pond to the young adult form ready to begin the cycle anew.

Teaches young readers about children around the globe, including children from Tanzania, China, and Afghanistan.

Photographs and simple text introduce the life cycle of a bee.

Introduces some of the animals and plants that live at different levels of the ocean, and shows how they hunt for food or hide from their enemies.

Photographs and simple text introduce early readers to healthy eating.

Presents homes from around the world, including huts, castles, and motor homes.

Introduces different ways to go places, such as riding in a car, on a bike, and on a sled.

Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to a child who is remarkably similar to themselves.

Shares information on different types of land, including deserts, mountains, and grassy fields.

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to different forms of weather, including rain, wind, and snow.

Introduces young readers to interesting places they can visit, including a sandy beach, a green forest, and a snowy mountain.

Big kid school sounds like a great adventure! Beginning readers come along as a young girl daydreams about how cool big kid school must be. The charming illustrations and clear text work together to create an engaging story that will have children delighted from cover to cover and feeling confident in their progressing literacy skills.

Early readers are encouraged to use their imagination to come up with creative ideas, games, and activities in this engaging book. Perfect for those who are new to reading or who have not yet begun, the colorful images, simple text, and enchanting rhyme work together to illustrate a story that will inspire children to follow along and use their brains to create adventures.

A young boy imagines what life would be like if he were a tree.

A little girl uses her imagination to dream of all the things she can be and do when she grows up. You can read the book and dream along with her. Soon you will also say, "I can be anything!"