Told in rhyme, punctuation station is a train station where marks are taught, such as the period, the comma, the apostrophe, quotation marks, question mark, hyphen, and exclamation point.  Book could be repeated for each grade at which the various marks are taught.  There is quite a bit of activity in each picture, so young students will get distracted.  The end of the book reviews all the marks and gives examples of how to use them.

Is bat a bird or an animal?  Even bat can’t decide on whose team he wants to be.  Depending on whose ahead is how he decides, until the animals and the birds catch on and stop the game.  The lesson: a good player sticks with a team even when it’s losing.  Excellent lesson, beautiful illustrations.  Language is sparse yet eloquent.

Shows a city street and alley where creatures live.  Creatures are pretty undesirable and somewhat feral, such as squirrels, rats, cats,  raccoons, cockroaches and scavenger birds.  Pictures are pretty graphic and will gross out some kids — a good example to use for teaching ‘Don’t Touch!’   Use for science/habitats

Defines citizens and shows what it means to be part of a group, to be responsible and caring.  Use for teaching table of contents, index, and glossary.

A pretty generic book showing the typical ways kids can help out at school. Use for teacher table of contents, glossary, and index.

A beginning non-fiction reader which depicts different ways kids play around the world.  Interesting observation is that all photos are taken outside, none inside.  Contains table of contents, glossary, index and introduction to maps.

A story about a Jewish family where an uncle is getting married.  Everyone has ideas about how the wedding should be, until they finally elope.  His niece is jealous that now she won’t have her uncle all to herself.  Jealousy rears it’s ugly head but she learns she now has a cousin and a new friend and they learn to work/play together.  All turns out for the best. The down side is the the illustrations for Brenda, the main character, are quite unattractive and distracting.

When the Bzzz fly bites a Smurf, it turns him Purple, angry and only able to say “GNAP!”  When the purple Smurf bites a regular blue Smurf he, too, becomes purple.  So with the Bzz flies and purples Smurfs angry and biting, there is a problem.  An explosion, a scientific accident, creates a cloud which cures them all.  Can you Smurf it?

Smurf is tired of walking so he decides to fly.  He tries everything from stripping the feathers off of a chicken and making his own wings to strapping himself to a rocket.  Not such good results, but funny.  Smurf-tastic!

Depicts with words and photos ways we are alike and ways we are different.  No mudgment, just fact.  No geography lesson; includes table of contents, glossary and index.

Great cartoon-like illustrations show a cross-section of a house and where pests can live.  Also explains the damage or usefulness of each pest.  Excellent photos of actual pests, including termites, rats, bats, and mold.  Seems adequate but it could have included more, such as mice, fleas, ants, and so on.  Could be used with science habitat unit.