From Head to Toe Written and Illustrated by Eric Carle

From head to toe is a good choice for a younger audience and addresses animals, gross motor skills, and body parts. Each page is colorfully illustrated and contains a different animal asking a child is they can move a part of their body like them.

Target age: Toddler

Springboard for lessons: This book is interactive and children will want to mimic the movements contained in it. Simply reading this book is an excellent way to link literacy with movement and to allow energetic little minds an appropriate place to exert their enthusiasm.

After having read the book, teachers can ask one student at a time to act like different animals. Students would be encouraged to use their whole body, their voices, and their facial expressions to convey clues as to what animal they are. The rest of the class would guess what animal the student was trying to be.

This book would also be great to include in an Eric Carle author study for toddlers.