Books with author Lily Erlic

Did you know that San Antonio was built on top of the Edwards Aquifer? The city gets much of its water from this source. Find out more about this fascinating city in San Antonio, part of the American Cities series. American Cities takes young readers on a tour of our capitals and major centers. Each book explores the geography, history, and people that give the featured city its distinctive flair. This is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. This book comes alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 1 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 5 to 7. It consists of picture books with approximately 200 words relating to key themes to help students learn vocabulary. Three little mice try to outperform each other by running, jumping, and swimming. One mouse decides not to wear a life jacket and faces a dangerous situation. This story highlights safety while playing. It also helps students practice comparatives and superlatives.

Poetry is valuable for stimulating the young child s brain growth. Combine poetry with fun movements and you have an effective way to actively involve children in exploring celebrations of all cultures around the world. What fun your children will have as they pretend to play musical instruments, steer a ship, look through a telescope, plant a tree, be a groundhog, fly on a broomstick, spin a dreidel, or march in a band. You can add any of the suggested small props (ribbons, small bells, maracas, miniature flags, and party hats) to the rhymes to help build large motor skills and increase the fun factor even more! A CD with the various rhymes being sung is included that provides either appropriate background music for use for singing the rhymes and/or performing the movements.

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 2 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 5 to 7. It offers a range of classic fairy tale adaptations and stories with 500 to 700 words. Each book in this set features a few sentences per page that are accompanied by detailed illustrations. Given the familiar contexts, some of the tales have been reworked or adapted so that students are always surprised and eager to read all the way to the unexpected endings. Blue Bear works hard to gather blueberries to make a blueberry pie. Rabbit and Fox will not help but, when the pie is ready, they want a piece. Will Blue Bear share? Maybe next time Rabbit and Fox will not be so lazy.

Scooter Club is a fictional account of a boy named Joel who wants to own a scooter and join a scooter club. Can he earn enough money with his friend Charlie to buy his own scooter? Without a scooter, entry to the Scooter Club is impossible. When Joel acquires a Scooter, is the club so important after all? Does Joel discover that friendship is more important?