2nd Grade Read Alouds

In this tale from a Spanish duo, a good-natured young man struggles to say no to things he’d rather not do.

One night, the last tree in the forest decides it’s time to uproot and leave. A little boy soon realizes what is happening… All the trees have disa...

Paula and Beto live in an apartment with their parents, but they long to spend time outside the city. Sometimes their parents take them to a beach ...

The boy had a cage, and he who has a cage always finds an animal to put inside it.

At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understa...

A simple walk in the park is skillfully rendered from the point of view of each walker (a mother and her son, a father and his daughter). Each pers...

A conversation between a kid and an ant sparks a debate about the responsibilities of the powerful and the rights of the powerless. In other words:...

One day at school, Duncan found a stack of letters for him. It is his crayons who, mad about the treatment that they received, decided to write let...

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they w...

A classic that’s been rewritten. This time Little Red Riding Hood won’t fear any wolf. She won’t get scared of a few teeth and she will make her ow...

Children will love this behind-the-scenes look at Little Red Riding Hood, as the main characters tell their side of the story and the reasons behin...

Perrault's version of Little Red Riding Hood has an Asian touch thanks to the ink and pen drawings by Francois Amorett. The author has included tex...

After eating Granny and Little Red Riding Hood, will 'The Ferocious Wolf’ have learned his lesson?

In this fun version of the traditional tale, a great inversion of character occurs: this time, the villain is a nasty pig that huffs and puffs unti...

A classic that’s been rewritten. This time there’s no huffing and puffing but a few prejudices enter the story. Érase dos veces (Twice Upon a Time)...

Life in a small town is altered by the appearance of a strange igloo and the questions begin to happen. A story to learn how to look with the eyes ...

Carlota has a friend like no other: a dog with blue hair. He comes to see her everynight.

Marwan’s Journey is made out of courage and memory. Very far, in his land, live his memories.Marwan is a boy that, next to a million other human be...

Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated f...

Kalak lives with his family in a part of the world where the nests are old, the roofs are all damaged, the earth is dry, and there is never enough ...

It was Danilito's first day in America. He and his parents have just made a long, exhausting move from the Caribbean to New York City. The ocean an...

Amelia Luisa Martinez hates roads. Los caminos, the roads, take her migrant worker family to fields where they labor all day, to schools where no o...

Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird," and "cupcake," as a way to fee...

A boy and his mother arrive at the same old and lonely vacation house as they do every year. What can he do there, bored and all alone, while his m...