Books Recommended for Interlock
Below, you will find books recommended by Rebecca Avery, author of The Weaver Curriculum, as well as books recommended by Weaver users.
Some of these books are no longer in print and you will need to search for alternative titles. Be sure to check your local library and book reseller shops, as older books can often be found there.
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Books Recommended by Original Author:
- Beginnings, Flannelgraph Set
- What Makes it Rain? Usborne Books
- Why Do People Eat? Usborne Books
- What’s Inside You? Starting Point Science
- First Book of Nature, Usborne Books
- Where Does Electricity Come From? Usborne Books
- Rockets and Space Flight, Usborne Books
Books Recommended by Weaver Users:
- UNIT 1
- I Love My Daddy Because… by Laurel Porter-Gaylord / Dutton Books
- Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett / Putnam Publishing Group
- Bob Books Set 3: Word Families, by Bobby Lynn Maslen / Scholastic Paperbacks
- Phonics Workbook for Kindergarten (Sight Words, Tracing Letters, Consonant and Vowels…), Carson Dellosa Education
- UNIT 2
- Cats and Bats and Things Like That: And Other Wonderful Things About God’s World (Wonder world books) by V. Gilbert Beers / Southwestern Company
- Young Helen Keller: Woman of Courage (First-Start Biographies) by Anne Benjamin / Troll Associates
- What Makes a Shadow? by Clyde Robert Bulla / HarperCollins Children’s Books
- UNIT 3
- Germs Make Me Sick! (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) (Reading Rainbow book) by Melvin Berger / HarperTrophy
- UNIT 4
- The Surprise Garden by Zoe Hall / Scholastic Trade
- How a Seed Grows (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Helene J. Jordan / HarperCollins Juvenile Books
- A Seed Grows : My First Look at a Plant’s Life Cycle (My First Look at Nature) by Pamela Hickman / Kids Can Press
- Bluey and Bingo’s Fancy Restaurant Cookbook, Penguin Young Readers Licenses
- The Big Book of Pizza, Food Network
- My Book of Rocks and Minerals: Things to Find, Collect, and Treasure, by Devin Dennie / DK Children
- UNIT 5
- Sunshine Makes the Seasons (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) by Franklyn M. Branley
- Mama Cat’s Year by Norma Simon / Albert Whitman & Co.
- Seasons on the Farm by Jane Miller / (out of print)
- What the Moon is Like (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) by Franklyn M. Branley / HarperTrophy
- The Sky Is Full of Stars (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) by Franklyn M. Branley / HarperTrophy
- The Big Dipper (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Franklyn M. Branley / HarperCollins Juvenile Books
- The Glow-In-the-dark Planetarium Book by Annie Ingle / Random House
- My First Book of Planets: All About the Solar System for Kids, by Dr. Bruce Betts / Callisto Kids
- UNIT 6
- A House for Hermit Crab (World of Eric Carle) by Eric Carle / Simon & Schuster
- What’s It Like to Be a Fish? (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Wendy Pfeffer / HarperTrophy
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni / Knopf
- A Year of Birds by Ashley Wolff / (out of print)
- The Robins in Your Backyard (Accelerated Reader Program series) by Nancy Carol Willis / Birdsong Books
- Birds Do the Strangest Things by Leonora Hornblow / Step Up Books (out of print)
- A Nest Full of Eggs (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1) by Priscilla Belz Jenkins / HarperTrophy
- UNIT 7
- Baby Whales Drink Milk (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Barbara J. Esbensen / HarperCollins
- Insects Do the Strangest Things (Random House Step-Up Books, 4) by Leonora Hornblower / Step Up Books (out of print)
- From Caterpillar to Butterfly Big Book (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) by Deborah Heiligman / HarperTrophy
- Where Butterflies Grow (Picture Puffins) by Joanne Ryder / Puffin
- A New Butterfly : My First Look at Metamorphosis (My First Look at Nature) by Pamela Hickman / Kids Can Press
- Tell Me About the Human Body, by Emma Beare
- UNIT 8
- Even YOU Need Sleep, by Natalie Pallat Silvagni
- I Wonder Why… My Body Needs Sleep, by Avison Brigid / Readers Digest Young Families
- UNIT 9
- My 1st Book of Being a Super Helper: Teaching Kids the Importance of Chores and Helping Around the House, by Sara Kale
- Making a Friend, by Tammi Sauer / HarperCollins
- What is Sin? by Brittani Ramirez / Scribbles and Scriptures
- It’s Mine! by Leo Lionni / Dragonfly Books