Leaping into Literature is an excellent resource that uses distinguished children"s literature as a vehicle to encourage higher level thinking, problem solving and creativity. Thirty favorite titles like Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Where the Wild Things Are and A Pocket for Corduroy as a part of the classics used in developing learning experiences in reading and language arts. The activities emphasize skills essential to the characteristics of creativity as well as Bloom"s Taxonomy of thinking skills. The ideas will help your students expand their minds by asking for new ideas and encouraging the students to be independent problem solvers. For grades k-3.