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When the Rain Came Down

Written by Leslie Helakoski

Illustrated by Keisha Morris

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux

                 Gator's Big Mouth

                     Written and illustrated by

        Leslie Helakoski

               Published by Pelican

Rain coming down and communities rising up fill this beautiful book about flooding and people at their best.

 

Kirkus Review: Verse and visuals help readers imagine the devastation of flooding, the hope brought by the helpers, and the long path toward healing…

a complicated reconciliation of the beauty of the region and memories of how precarious it all is when the rain comes down.

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The original best-selling Woolbur can be ordered here! Just click above.

Bumpy and Lumpy don't listen to their brother about building a safe home. Stumpy opens his mouth over and over to give advice, and to remind them that he told them so. Will the brothers find a safe place before the next storm comes?

Woolbur

Harper Collins
ISBN:978-0-06-084726-5
Illustrated by Lee Harper

 

The fun-filled story of a sheep that bleats

to his own beat. Everyone has trouble with Woolbur from the shearer to the spinner

to the weaver. Woolbur has his own ideas about being a sheep, will his

family survive?

See what other schools are doing with

Woolbur at this link.

 

Awards

  • 2008 Book Sense Hot Pick

  • Great Lakes Book Award finalist

  • Gift of Literacy Oregon Book Choice

  • 2013 Michigan Reads! One State, One Picture Book Award

 

 Nominated for following state book awards:

 

  • Vermont

  • North Dakota

  • Nevada

  • Florida (Honor Book)

  • South Carolina

  • North Carolina

  • Arizona

  • Washington

  • Nebraska

   UPCOMING

   TITLES!!

       Fake Gnus

       (Groundwood 2026))

    Crab Did It

       (Charlesbridge 2027)

     Crabby Neighbors

       (Putnam 2028)

Back to the Woods

Written by Leslie Helakoski,

illustrated by Dalia Awad

A romp for those who love the outdoors and only want to GO BACK. This book only orderable as part of the Kiwico Camping package.

Are Your Stars Like My Stars?

 

Written by Leslie Helakoski

Illustrated by Heidi Sheffield

published by Sterling Books.

We look at the world every day,

you and me.

Do we see the same things?

Do you see what I see?

A best diverse book award winner, this book invites readers to wonder about our differences and similarities and how we view the world we share with others.

      Woolbur Goes to School!

Written by Leslie Helakoski

Illustrated by Lee Harper

Published by HarperCollins, June 2018

 

Woolbur is ready for school, but is everyone else? Woolbur takes on common fears of new students as only he can. 

Kirkus Review... Woolbur is an excellent role model of self-confidence and positivity.Purchase at a local indie.

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Big Chickens


Dutton, ISBN: 0-525-47575-3
Illustrated by Henry Cole

 

Four fearful chickens go for a walk i

n the woods and allow their fear to

get them in trouble again and again.  Ultimately they find they can use

their chicken abilities to get them-

selves out again and again. The

unique language allows for lessons

in opposites, alliteration and

internal rhyme.

VIEW  BOOK TRAILER

Check out what other schools are doing with Big Chickens.


Big Chickens Project Blog 
Big Chickens Activities  

 

Awards

 

  • Winner, 2007 Michigan Reads! One State One Picture Book

  • A 2006 Junior Library Guild selection

  • Kirkus (starred review) 

  • Great Lakes Great Books Award 2007

 

State Book Awards nominee:

North Dakota

South Carolina

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Hoot & Honk

 

Written and illustrated by 

Leslie Helakoski, Sterling Publishers

 

 A tale of two eggs placed in the wrong 

nests after a storm, an owlet and a gosling struggle with out-of-sync sleep patterns. 

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Doggone Feet!


Written and illustrated by
Leslie Helakoski, Boyds Mill Press

 

VIEW BOOK TRAILER

A dog's tale about a growing family and life under the kitchen table. Selected as best math book by Scholastic Magazine. 

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Big Pigs

Written and illustrated by
Leslie Helakoski
Boyds Mill Press

Sibling piglets compete to see who is the biggest pig.

Big Chickens Fly the Coop


Dutton
Illustrated by Henry Cole
ISBN: 978-0-525-47915

The big chickens are back and this time they consider always staying inside the coop where it is nice and safe.  But to get what they want, they must face the fear-filled farmyard.

  • Kirkus starred review

  • Kansas State Reading Circle

  • New Hampshire State Book Award Nominee

  • Bill Martin Jr. Picture book award nominee

The Smushy Bus


Illustrated by Salvadore Murdocca
Millbrook Press (out of print but available on Amazon)

Lots of math fun as a driver has to figure out how 76 kids will fit on one very small bus.

Big Chickens Go To Town


ISBN 978-0-525-42162-7
Dutton Children’s Books
Illustrated by Henry Cole

The big chickens fall out of the pick-up truck and are stranded in a scary new world--town. Strange food, strange noises and strange birds make for an uproarious time on the streets of New Orleans.

Fair Cow


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISBN: 9780761456841
Marshall Cavendish Books

(Available on Amazon)
Written and Illustrated by
Leslie Helakoski

VIEW BOOK TRAILER

As Effie prepares for the state fair 

with help from a pig, she finds something 

is wrong with her hair, her shape, her tail and more. 

 

Review from Kirkus:  Helakoski's first solo effort shows off her goofy acrylics, which are a terrific match for her frisky farm fable.  A good addition to collections in need of some new barnyard or self-esteem titles.

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