2nd Grade Read Alouds

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)...

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 unt...

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...

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...

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...

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 l...

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:...

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 per...

A group of friends gets ready for a theatrical play. Step by step, we’ll see that you need more than actors and actresses to prepare for the produc...

A blue mama goose adopts a baby crocodile. Together they form their own family. But when the blue goose gets older she begins to lose her memory. H...

Señoe Sí could do a lot of different, funny things… but he’d never learned how to say no. Even though it made him unhappy, he would reluctantly agr...

During the Great Depression Lydia was sent to live with her uncle Jim in the city. Through her exchange of letters with her family back home we le...

He could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day... He went to sleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with gum in his ...

Irene bravely faces a snowfall to bring the suit that her mother created for the Duchess. Although she finds herself in terrible danger, everything...

Berta is saddened and doesn't know why. Luckily she has Edmundo, Cancán and Pichón, who will do everything possible to make her happy again. A stor...

Ferdinand is the world's most peaceful--and--beloved little bull. While all of the other bulls snort, leap, and butt their heads, Ferdinand is cont...

A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit?and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won’t ris...

No one wants to play with Lucy on her first day of school, so the teacher gives her some chalk. Lucy begins to draw animals in the patio and doesn’...

A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. W...

A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.

Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she’s a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When he...

Winter is coming, and all the mice are gathering food... except for Frederick. But when the days grow short and the snow begins to fall, it’s Frede...

Your mind is like the sky. Sometimes it is clear and blue, but other times thoughts arise that make everything seem dark. So, what can we do? This ...

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...