Book Activities

Several of our books have fun learning activities to go along with them. The titles It All Began With a Bean and Mystery at Blackbeard's Cove have comprehensive curriculum guides that align with national standards. Express yourself, complete a science experiment, practice a new language, or play act with paper characters -- learn and have fun!

We plan to add new activities regularly, so bookmark this page and check back often for more learning activities and curriculums.

68 Knots
Click here for some discussion questions.

Beauty Day (formerly In Style With Grandma Antoinette)
Color Rosie and help her choose a nail color! Click here for an activity page.

Click here to see some great thank you cards that kids made for the author of the book!

Carmen's Sticky Scab
Play a memory game with characters from the book.
Play a board game with characters from the book.
Play a trivia game - and find the answers.

Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully
Get rid of the bully with these activity sheets.

Is a Worry Worrying You?
Make a worry box and send your worries away, or make worry dolls to tell your troubles to.
Click here for the activity sheets and instructions.

It All Began With a Bean
Follow this science curriculum and learn about the process of digestion. Click here for a curriculum guide.

A Kiss Goodbye
Click here for two drawing activities.

The Kissing Hand
Act out the story with puppets you make yourself! Click here for two activities.

The Mice of Bistrot des Sept Freres

• Count in French with these flash cards
• Make a paper bag mouse puppet
• Make Chef Marcel's chef hat
• Color a "read" poster with Petite Michelle
• Download a recipe card for the famous cheese soup

• Play a French word matching game
• Make a fabric mouse

My Brother the Dog
Here's a dog collar for you to wear or give to your brother or sister. If you don't have any siblings, use it as a bookmark! To download and print a pdf of the collar, just click on this picture:

Mystery at Blackbeard's Cove
The Language Arts section of this curriculum covers reading comprehension, vocabulary and literary analysis. Social Science questions and essay topics are also included.Click here for the curriculum guide.

A Pocket Full of Kisses
Click here to make your own pocket full of hearts to give to people you love, and a great bookmark!

The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies
Click here to download the teacher's guide.

Two Moon Princess
Click here for some discussion questions.

You Can't Milk a Dancing Cow!
Dress up a cow and a pig and act out a play. Click here for figures and costumes.

The Whistling Tree
Go on a factfinding mission about names — particularly your own — or investigate your dreams.
Click here for activity sheets.

Please limit photocopying and distribution of our activities and curriculums to fair educational use. Thank you!