Bumble bee Grumble Bumble learns valuable lessons about size, strength, and friendship. Grumble Bumble worries about her appearance and size, but when a neighbor needs to be rescued, she is just the bee for the job! Authors Bob and Mary Patterson created many stories to help their children understand the world and one another. Readers meet delightful characters in all of the Pattersons' stories.

This is a wonderful adventure about two bunnies and their friends helping Mother Earth with their do good deeds, put into a children's book just for you!

Upper-elementary students encounter a sometimes dizzying array of traditional and nontraditional texts both in and outside of the classroom. This practical handbook helps teachers in grades 4–6 harness the instructional potential of fiction, poetry, and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling; Web-based and multimodal texts; hip-hop; advertisements; math problems; and many other types of texts. Twenty-four complete lessons promote critical literacy skills such as comprehending, analyzing, and synthesizing information and using writing to communicate new ideas and pose questions. Snapshots of diverse classrooms are accompanied by clear explanations of the research base for instruction in each genre. Ready-to-use reproducibles are included.