Marsha is Magnetic (Beth Ferry)

 

Fun way to introduce scientific method! 
Marsha's mom is getting ready for a party. Marsha, who seems to be a little bit like Amelia Bedelia who takes things very literally, has her own way of getting ready and it involves science!

Goodreads says:

It turns out that the best way to draw others to you is by being yourself. 

Marsha is a scientist who has never met a problem she couldn't solve. But when it comes to making friends to invite to her birthday party, she is stumped.

Luckily, Marsha knows the solution to being stumped: the scientific method.

With creativity, determination, and humor, Marsha sets out to attract as many friends as she can—what could possibly go wrong?

Harriett's Ruffled Feathers

 

This is the true story of a lady who had an awakening about how they were using feathers as fashion and she changed her ways and got all her friends to change their ways....even Queen Elizabeth! 

My class wasn't totally enamored with this story. There was a lot of play on words that they didn't catch on to. If I read it again, I'd take the time to talk about those things so they can catch the double-meanings.

Goodreads says:
This picture book tells the story of Harriet Hemenway's boycott of fashionable feathered hats, which saved millions of birds and led to the founding of the Audubon Society. 

The Hole Story (Kelly Canby)

 

This story has some subtleties to it that are great. The not so subtle bit is to talk about the word play of hole vs whole. The subtle part is the rabbit that appears on all the pages following the boy around. Once the boy finally decides to discard the hole because it is of no use to him, the rabbit can use it to live in. It could also be great as a story for inferencing. What could some of the people in the story do with that hole? Why do they not want it? What would happen if they did take it?

Goodreads says:

One day Charlie finds a hole. A hole of his very own! He picks it up and pops it in his pocket. But it doesn’t take Charlie long to realize that a hole in your pocket is not a good thing to have.