Sun Moon & Shadow Unit Booklist
updated January 4, 2020
Art
Exploring Textile Arts: The Ultimate Guide to Manipulating, Coloring and Embellishing Fabrics
by the editors of Creative Publishing International
Handwork
More Magic Wool: Creating Figures and Pictures with Dyed Wool
by Angelika Wolk-Gerche
Music & Movement
A Box of Animal Crackers
by Jane Dyer
Phases of the Moon: Traditional Chinese Music CD
Classical Chinese Folk Music
Nature
The Storyteller's Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing and Using Folktales
by Margaret Read MacDonald
Seeing Stars: An Introduction to the Night Sky
by Charles Hobson
The Little Book of Hand Shadows
by Phila H. Webb and Jane Corby
Play
In the original curriculum, this book was
Beyond the Rainbow Bridge : Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven
by Barbara J. Patterson and Pamela Bradley.
I would now like to recommend instead
Well, I Wonder: Childhood in the Modern World, A Handbook for Parents, Carers and Teachers
by Sally Schwizer
Stories
The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Poetry
ed. by Alison Sage
The Baby's Bedtime Book
by Kay Chorao
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up
by Alice E. Goudey
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Why the Sky is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale
by Mary-Joan Gerson
The Boy with Two Shadows
by Margaret Mahy
The Shadow Book
by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
The Day the Babies Crawled Away
by Peggy Rathmann
Look at the Moon
by May Garelick
Kitten's First Full Moon
by Kevin Henkes
Grandfather Twilight
by Barbara Helen Berger
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
by Eric Carle
Night in the Country
by Cynthia Rylant
I Took the Moon for a Walk
by Carolyn Curtis
Mary Poppins
by P.L. Travers
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons
by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London
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It was hard to restrict this list to just 15 choices! Here are two more of my favorite books for this topic:
Moon Mouse
by Adelaide Holl
How the Rabbit Stole the Moon
by Louise Moeri and Marc Brown
I needle felted the characters from this story (bear, snake, elk, rabbit, sun) and we love to act it out.
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