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Literary Teacher Heroes

Celebrate the special grown-up in your classroom: Your teacher! No matter who they are, (be it a 50-foot person or new to a class) you’re in this together, from the first day to the last day of the school year. Check out one of these books that features teachers and the adventures they have with students just like you!

This sweet and colorful book lists all the ways that teachers help and inspire their students, as told by Eric Carle’s brightly drawn animals. Have fun making the animal noises and movements as you read this book with your child.

Some students will understand the struggles the little girl in this story faces. This story tells a warm tale about the difference a teacher can make in the lives of their students.

A new school year often means a new teacher. Will the pink-loving heroine of this story like her new teacher? How can she learn from someone she doesn’t know?

Looks aren’t always as they seem, especially when you suspect your substitute teacher might be a monster. For students anxious about new and substitute teachers, this books provides a funny tale to calm fears with an ending to help even the most nervous of students to meet their teachers.

This silly story takes the rhyme “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly” and asks what happens when a teacher gets a little too hungry? Join her class as they find out just how hungry one teacher can be.

All a book needs is a bit of magic, the kind of magic like a teacher reading to their class. This magic is powerful, even powerful enough to send a whole class to meet dinosaurs! But reader beware, dinosaurs don’t like to sit and listen!

You might have heard the phrase “Teacher’s pet” but what if the pet is a cat? Or a rooster? Read Teacher’s pets to laugh along as one classroom becomes a zoo – literally!

In My teacher for President, Oliver decides that his teacher can do anything, even be president! This funny story follows Oliver as he shows all the ways his teacher is ready for places beyond the classroom: The White House.

For kids, teachers sometimes feel larger than life, but unfortunately for Miss Birmbaum’s class, larger than life means 50 feet tall! Can Halloween be saved with a giant homework wielding teacher on the loose? Students beware!

First day jitters remains students that everyone can get nervous for the first day of school, even people that they would never expect!