McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – Little Miss Sunshine
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McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – Mr. King’s Machine
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – Mr. King’s Machine
Geneviève Côté
Geneviève Côté
Series: Mr. King
Mr. King, a lion in a gold crown, “lives on top of a BIG hill. He wants to build himself a BIG castle. Mr. King likes BIG things.” But in order to make such a big castle, Mr. King needs lots of material. So he decides to use blocks he chops up with abandon from all over his hill, not noticing the giant holes he’s leaving behind. Once he’s done, Mr. King is proud of his enormous new castle. But when his animal friends begin to wonder what happened to their favorite places, Mr. King realizes the harm he has done to the once-beautiful hill. “Everyone is staring at Mr. King, and suddenly he feels very small.” Is there anything Mr. King can do to feel big again? This picture book is part of an environmentally themed series created by award-winning author-illustrator Geneviève Côté. With gentle humor, it offers an age-appropriate message to young children about how each of us needs to tread lightly on the earth. It makes a wonderful book for a primary science lesson on environmental stewardship. It also works well for discussions about friendship and could be used for a character education lesson about fairness, responsibility or cooperation. For a hands-on experience, there are visual puzzles in which the pieces chopped out of the hill can be matched directly to the pieces that make up the castle.
Series » Mr. King
Mr. King
A charming series with an environmental awareness message in each book, starring the shortsighted but well-meaning Mr. King and his helpful forest friends.
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – Mr. King’s Castle
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – Mr. King’s Castle
Geneviève Côté
Geneviève Côté
Series: Mr. King
Mr. King, a lion in a gold crown, “lives on top of a BIG hill. He wants to build himself a BIG castle. Mr. King likes BIG things.” But in order to make such a big castle, Mr. King needs lots of material. So he decides to use blocks he chops up with abandon from all over his hill, not noticing the giant holes he’s leaving behind. Once he’s done, Mr. King is proud of his enormous new castle. But when his animal friends begin to wonder what happened to their favorite places, Mr. King realizes the harm he has done to the once-beautiful hill. “Everyone is staring at Mr. King, and suddenly he feels very small.” Is there anything Mr. King can do to feel big again? This picture book is part of an environmentally themed series created by award-winning author-illustrator Geneviève Côté. With gentle humor, it offers an age-appropriate message to young children about how each of us needs to tread lightly on the earth. It makes a wonderful book for a primary science lesson on environmental stewardship. It also works well for discussions about friendship and could be used for a character education lesson about fairness, responsibility or cooperation. For a hands-on experience, there are visual puzzles in which the pieces chopped out of the hill can be matched directly to the pieces that make up the castle.
Series » Mr. King
Mr. King
A charming series with an environmental awareness message in each book, starring the shortsighted but well-meaning Mr. King and his helpful forest friends.
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – Mr. King’s Things
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – Mr. King’s Things
Geneviève Côté
Geneviève Côté
Series: Mr. King
Mr. King is a cat who likes new things. In fact, “LOTS of new things. As soon as one of his things becomes the tiniest bit old, he tosses it into the nearby pond and replaces it with a new one.” Happily, this works just fine for a while. But then one day while attempting to fish in this same pond, Mr. King is terrified when he pulls up what he believes is a gigantic monster. Only it turns out it’s not a monster at all. It’s a tangle of his own discarded things, come back to scare him!
Geneviève Côté has created a terrific introduction to the causes and effects of pollution and overconsumption with this lively and funny picture book. As with so many big ideas, the environmental message here is quite simple and easy to understand when explained at a child’s-eye view. The story is gentle, humorous and not at all preachy, and the artwork is clean and open, with most of the visual focus on Mr. King and his range of intense emotions. The ways Mr. King finds to repurpose all of his resurrected things at the end of the book could inspire all kinds of classroom discussions about what efforts children might make to recycle their things for other people or other uses, as well as how not to waste things in general. It could also work as a jumping-off point for a project turning children’s found objects into their own works of art.
Series » Mr. King
Mr. King
A charming series with an environmental awareness message in each book, starring the shortsighted but well-meaning Mr. King and his helpful forest friends.
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – A Day in Canada
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books – A Day in Canada
Kim Bellefontaine
Per-Henrik Gürth
Series: Canada Concept Books
This sweet picture book from popular illustrator Per-Henrik Gürth begins simply with, “It’s time to wake up. What will you do today?” It then takes readers on a sunrise-to-sunset tour across Canada, showcasing all kinds of fun adventures to be had from coast to coast to coast. Each colorful spread shows a different time of day and location with a corresponding activity. For example, “7:15 a.m. Help unload fresh vegetables at the Halifax Farmers’ Market.” Ideas range from waking up with the sunrise in St. John’s to falling asleep under the Northern Lights in Nunavut, and cover all manner of places in between, from large cities to national parks, in every province and territory. On each spread, there are two representations of what time of day it is: in the top left the time is written out in numerals (such as “6:00 a.m.”), while in the lower left the time is depicted in an illustration of an analog clock.
Using vibrant, bold colors, the artwork features a variety of lovable Canadian animal characters — familiar from Gürth’s other titles — participating in each activity, and providing delightful visual cues to the text for pre-readers. This book is a perfect fit for teaching young children how to tell time and useful for discussions about what we do at certain times of the day. A map of Canada, with markers for each location, on the endpapers makes this a fun introduction to Canadian geography as well. It is also simply an appealing, heartfelt celebration of all that is beautiful and special in Canada.
Series » Canada Concept Books
Canada Concept Books
Artist Per-Henrik Gurth presents early-learning concepts using all-Canadian images and an adorable animal cast of characters. Encompassing all major regions of Canada, each book is an eye-pleasing coast to coast journey. The bold, bright art and simple text give pre-readers an introduction to the alphabet, numbers and colour — and to their beautiful country.