Books with Months or Calendars
Through the Year with Harriet, by Betsy Maestro.
A Book of Seasons and The Year At Maple Hill Farm by Alice Provensen.
Waiting for The Evening Star, by Rosemary Wells, is quite long.
Ox-Cart Man by Hall shows activities through the year, and a cycle.
TURNING OF THE YEAR by Bill Martin Jr. and ONE LIGHTHOUSE, ONE MOON by Anita Lobel.
Barner, Bob. Parade day: marching through the calendar year. New
York: Holiday House, 2003.
Easy rhyming text describes a parade celebrating each month of the
year, followed by information about different calendars, the months,
and how to make one's own calendar.
Beskow, Elsa Maartman. Around the year: a picture book. Edinburgh,
Scotland: Floris Books, 1988.
Recounts the adventures of a family of small forest creatures
throughout the four seasons.
Blackstone, Stella. Jump into January: a journey around the year.
Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2004.
A short verse for each month of the year encourages the reader to
find objects hidden in the pictures that depict that month's
activities, such as ear muffs and pine trees in January, or scooters
and a picnic bench in June.
Carlstrom, Nancy White. How do you say it today, Jesse Bear? New
York: Maxwell Macmillan In, 1992.
Rhymed text and illustrations describe Jesse Bear's activities from
January to December.
Day, Nancy Raines. A kitten's year. New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, 2000.
A kitten peeks at January, toys with February, stalks March, and
eventually sniffs November and dreams December as it grows into a cat
through the course of a year.
Lesser, Carolyn. What a wonderful day to be a cow. New York: Knopf,
1995.
Every month of the year, the animals on a farm enjoy their way of
life and the weather that greets them.
Lillie, Patricia. When this box is full. New York: Scholastic, 1993.
Each month a child adds something to an empty box, including a red
foil heart in February and toasted pumpkin seeds in October.
Lobel, Anita. One lighthouse, one moon. New York: Greenwillow Books,
2000.
Presents the days of the week, the months of the year, and numbers
from one to ten through the activities of a cat and people in and
around a lighthouse.
Sendak, Maurice. Chicken soup with rice; a book of months. Harper &
Row, 1962.
Slote, Elizabeth. Nelly's garden. New York: Tambourine Books, 1991.
Little Nelly Dragon enjoys the different flowers each month in her
garden.
Tafuri, Nancy. All year long. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1983.
Pictures a variety of activities on different days of the week
during each month of the year from a Sunday in January to a Saturday
in December.
Wolff, Ashley. A year of birds. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984.
Ellie's country home is visited by many kinds of birds during each
month of the year.
Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year_ by Betsy Bowen sounds like it
would work for you. Her artwork is wonderful (she considers herself an artist who
became an author) water-color decorated wood cut prints. She takes you through the
year in the Superior National Forest, close to her home near Grand Marais,
Minnesota. I have met her and visited her studio and find her to be a delightful
artist/author. Each letter represents something related to the months as they pass
from January through December. She has a trademark of four dots arranged in a
diamond shape that she uses on each page that my students have enjoyed finding.
She has also written _The Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book_ that uses the same
progress through the seasons device but in this case is a counting rather that
alphabet book.
Seeds, seeds, seeds by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
A year of birds by Ashley Wolff
Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak
A childs calendar by John Updike
Thank you to everyone who aided in my search.
"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home" Edward R. Murrow
Donnette Mickelson
Library Media Specialist
Colfax Elementary School
coreys@chibardun.net
Colfax, WI 54730
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