Second Grade

• Astronomy & Space
• Engineering & Technology
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Roaring Rockets sends Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse zooming to the Moon in a rhyming picture-book adventure packed with spacecraft details. Spacesuits, oxygen helmets, gravity gear, and the rocket's job become part of imagining how the friends can travel beyond Earth.

• Physics & Energy
• Engineering & Technology
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Amazing Airplanes follows Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse as pilots, baggage handlers, and cabin crew in a rhyming trip through an airport and flight. The animal cast and wordplay carry practical aeronautics, from the cockpit and landing gear to flight safety and air-traffic coordination.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: How to Be a Ladybug gives Dotty the larva a garden full of predators, rival insects, confusing body changes, and wings still to come. Her comic journey lets children discover that a ladybug's early stages look and behave differently from the familiar adult.