The Nuts Keep Rolling is the newest book by bestselling author Eric Litwin. This new book will be available soon on April 18, 2017. Eric Litwin is the author of the first four Pete the Cat books, the Groovy Joe series, and the Nut Family series. Keep reading for activities to go with the book and the giveaway for a signed copy!
In The Nuts Keep Rolling, Hazel and Wally Nut are really small, but want to be big. They roll through the sticky mud and as they roll, they get bigger and bigger. Along the way, they bump into some problems. Their positive response to these problems is to “keep rolling!”
Of course the book has a song to go with it! Download the Keep Rolling Dance song here. Learn how to do the dance here.
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Activities to Go with “The Nuts Keep Rolling” Book
Participate in the Health Nut Challenge: Download a printable certificate and a nut tree to assemble for the wall. Each time kids do something healthy, they can add a nut to the Health Nut Tree. When your class does the Keep Rolling Dance, you can add a nut to the tree.
Nut Play Dough Mats: Practice counting and fine motor with these printable play dough mats. Kids will roll play dough to make a “nut”.
Acorn to Tree Life Cycle: Teach the life cycle of an acorn with these printable cards.
Squirrel/Nut Grid Game: Add acorns to this grid game while practicing counting.
Nut Sorting: Set up this nut sorting science center.
Rolling on Ramps: Try this science experiment to see which objects roll and do not roll.
Sizes: Try these activities to teach about sizes. Use the vocabulary in the book to introduce the skill.
Printable Size Sequencing Cards
Print these size sequencing cards to use while retelling the story. Kids can put the pictures in order by size while at the same time, they are putting them in the order of the story. You can also have kids match the sizes of the nuts to the animal sizes (cat, dog, elephant).
Dance Contest: Win an Author Visit
The new book, The Nuts Keep Rolling, has a Keep Rolling Dance that goes with the story. This contest runs from April 18 – May 16, 2017. Enter the contest for a chance to win a school visit from Eric. Learn more at EricLitwin.com.
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Signed Book Giveaway!
I have a copy of The Nuts Keep Rolling, signed by author Eric Litwin to give away to one lucky winner. Enter here for a chance to win using the Rafflecopter below.
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- If you are a winner, you will be notified by email and you have 5 days to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
- Giveaway ends at 11:59 pm EST on April 17, 2017.
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I love the Groovy Joe book. I can’t wait to get this one too!
I love Pete the Cat books, but this new one looks like it may be a new favorite!
Awesome giveaway! My kiddos love the Pete the Cat books.
Looks like a great book, thanks for the opportunity to win one.
Pete the Cat: Rockin In My School Shoes!
I haven’t read any by this author but this latest one looks especially adorable!!
This looks like another great read! Let’s keep rolling!
My daughter loved Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons.
Thank you for the giveaway!
We love all our Eric Litwin books! Polka-dot pants is a current favorite.
I can’t wait to read this book!
I’m so excited to further use your resources ☺️.
This is so awesome! I love Eric Litwin and so do my kiddos.
My class and I LOVE Pete the Cat series of books because they are GROOVY and It’s All Good 😎
We love Pete the Cat! This one sounds awesome too!
My students wear polka dots pants, because I play the “Polka dots pants dance” song when they do! Our record is 4 times in one day! Their parents were wondering why they were insisting on wearing polka dots everyday…oops!!!
That’s hilarious, Jeena! 🙂 Sounds fun!
Hope to win this book for our homeschool library
My classroom loves the new characters in Eric Litwin’s books! Hoping to add to our library 🙂
I love Pete The Cat Rockin In My School shoes!!
I know my kids favorite Litwin book is Pete the Cat and his White Shoes. They love to sing the song, so I’m really looking forward to introducing this book to them!
My students and I love the first book, Pete the Cat and his White Shoes, the best! We never get tired of singing his song 🙂
My preschool and kinder kiddos would LOVE this book!
I have never heard of the Nuts family before but I am excited for the chance to win. Looks like we will be starting another fun series to read.
I can’t wait to read this book!
Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes
I love all of Eric Litwin’s books!
I love Eric Litwin. I fell in love with the first three Pete the Cat books. I saw at a book fair at my school that he wrote the Groovy Joe books following the same pattern with a song. Can’t wait to read this newest book, The Nuts Keep Rolling.
The lesson in this new book seems like something we can all use when things get challenging.
Love his books and so do my preschool kids and grandkids!
Can wait to learn the dance!
Love Pete the cat books!
We love Pete the cat and the 4 groovy buttons!
The kids and I love Pete the Cat books and the songs are so catchy. We would love to read Eric Litwin’s new series…looks like so much FUN!
Pete the Cat and his White Shoes is our current Eric Litwin favorite!
I enjoy reading Pete the Cat and His White Shoes! Can’t wait to read this new one!
My favorite is Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes. I love how they have a song with them to get the kids moving.
My favorite is still Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, my preschoolers can’t get enough of it. I think I am going to love this one too! I can’t wait to try the dance with my class!
My preschoolers love all the Pete the Cat books ! They stay focused, and know all the words by heart and still ask for more. It would be a great addition to win this book for our little school.
My favorite is Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes. Great for helping little ones learn colors in a fun way.
I love Groovy Joe! I would love to win the new book.
My pre-k kids love Pete the Cat and his White Shoes. We sequence the story using the different things he’s stepped in and his new color of shoes. I have made the pictures we sequence.
We also love the “Nut Family” books and we love to do the polka dot pants dance.
Thank you for the chance to win Mr. Eric’s new autographed book!
Love this author and the travels of Hazel and Wally Nut sound like another truly clever story.
Dancing and Music… what could be better?
Can’t wait to read it!
My prekindergarten children love the book Pete The Cat, Rockin in My School Shoes. The children acted out the story and danced to the song. I would absolutely love to have Eric Litwin’s autographed copy of “Nuts Keep Rolling.” I can’t wait to have the kids engage in the activities that I have downloaded to go with the book.
Not sure how to enter giveaway. I hope it’s just by commenting. I’d love to add this book to our collection!!
My daughter loves the Pete the Cat books 🙂
I enjoy all the Pete the Cat books! They are the most requested books in my pre-k classroom!!
Our preschoolers love Pete the Cat and all of his groovyness! Would love to have the Nut family join in all of the fun. Thanks!
My class loves all the Pete the Cat books! They like the one about the sleepover as well as his rockin’ school shoes. We ask the kids what they like to do in their school shoes, and the responses are really funny. I teach a class of 3 year olds.
I always start the school year with Pete the Cat books…especially ” I Love My White Shoes”! It always gets the class united as a class by singing the song and repeating the phrases. A few of the adults in the program were also able to apply…”It’s all good!” to our lives this year…Thank you!
P.S. I teach young 3 year olds of multicultural backgrounds. The books reach all the different children.
My Cognitively Impaired /Autistic kids Love Love Love all Pete the Cat books. They work on sequencing, vocabulary, colors, and lots of literacy goals with these books. They are awesome. Id love to add this to our collection.
Pete the cat rocks! My students enjoy reading the book especially for the first week of school. Hope to win!
I am a retired Elementary Teacher with a part time retirement job as Children’s Librarian at our local public library. Pete the Cat is a favorite of young children, and the Nut family sounds like a clever, creative series that will become favorites, too! I appreciate this chance to win a book that can be shared with my preschoolers during Story Time and After School Programs.
Pete the Cat- Rockin in My School Shoes…. is MY favorite! But I love to share them all with my students! We love them! Looking forward to this new book! ❤❤
My kiddos love Pete the Cat – I Love My White Shoes because It’s All Good. 🙂
I love Pete the Cat and his attitude! I’m excited to read this new book by Eric Litwin.
This book sounds like it is going to be a blast for kids, both in school and at home.
Love these activities to go with the books! I suspect my students will enjoy the Nuts as much as the do Pete and Groovy Joe!
My kids love, love, love, Pete the Cat! Especially Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses!!
Can’t wait to see it. We like Rockin in My School Shoes
I love Pete The Cat books. It more importantly my children love them
Love, love, love Eric Litwin’s books! My students and my grandsons are all big fans!
I just read Pete the Cat Love My White Shoes and my students are constantly “reading” it to each other. It is awesome to watch and hear. I would love to add this book to our collection.
I have many of the Pete the Cat books, as they are our classroom favorites, but I really would be so happy and grateful to win this! It looks just adorable and perfect for my special education preschoolers! Thank you for having this exciting opportunity! The book looks precious and I love the illustrations on the cover!
My Preshoolers love Pete the Cat and they really enjoy Groovy Joe. We listen to Pete the Cat and his White shoes every day at the end of lunch time. They love to lie on the mat and stomp their feet. The perfect inbetween activity where they are calming down and relaxing a bit but can still move to get those wiggles out.
Pete the Cat Love My White Shoes.
My class loves the Pete the Cat Groovy Buttons. We have the CD for it and it has become the MUST HAVE reading book everyday after snack. I look forward to the new book as well.
My students are fans of all Eric Litwin’s books – Pete the Cat, Groovy Joe, and the Nuts. It is too difficult to choose a favorite! I can’t wait to share the newest book with my students. Having an autographed copy would be even more exciting to share with them! Thank you! 🙂
Pete the Cat – I Love My White Shoes – makes my new students feel so happy and comfortable in their new never-been-to-school-before classroom at the beginning of the year! Can’t wait for this new book!
We love Pete the Cat!
I love Pete the Cat. Can’t wait to get this book…looks like so many teaching opportunities that could go with it.
Thanks for putting together a great post with lots of usable ideas. Your blog is terrific and even if I don’t win, I appreciate all you do and can’t wait to see a copy of this book!
Pete the Cat – Rockin’ in My School Shoes. The Nuts Keep Rolling is going to have to go on my Amazon list if it doesn’t come to my classroom through this super opportunity! :o)
my son loves pete the cat books!
these are all sooo great! 🙂
fingers are crossed!!
The Nuts Keep Rolling book. I would play 3 in a row with my granddaughter.
All of Pete the Cat! My nephew is obsessed with the books and the songs. I buy him a new one every holiday! 🙂
I like “Keep Rolling”
I also like the upcoming Bedtime At the Nut House book. Another fun activity would be a nut toss – tossing large nuts like in shell walnuts into a large round bowl or a large box.
The Pete the cat books are wonderful! We love reading before bedtime or outside at the park.
My favorite Eric Litwin book is Pete The Cat I Love My White Shoes! It’s my students’ favorite as well!!
Pete the cat looks so cute!
I love “Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes!” My students love this story as well! I read it the first week of school and that is always my students’ favorite story to reread to themselves in the book area! My entire classroom is done in Pete the Cat!!!
I would also like the book Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
My favorite book is Pete the cat
Like Pete the cat.
I like Pete theCat!
Pete The Cat books are really cute. 🙂
My daughter loves the Pete the cat books
It’s the Pete the Cat books that the kids at our local library have checked out all the time even with duplicate copies.
Pete the Cat books also look like fun! Thank you for the contest!
My granddaughters would like Pete the Cat Rocking in my school shoes.
My favorite Eric Litwin book is Groovy Joe: Ice Cream and Dinosaurs. A fun activity I do with this book is I have my son make up a fun song to strum on the guitar.
My kids love the Pete the Cat books!
I like The Dance Contest. We are a dancing family! Thanks!
love the Pete the Cat books
We love the Pete the Cat Books, but this one looks like it’s cute!
My kids love Pete the cat
My daughter is a big fan of Pete the Cat!
I think Rockin’ in my School Shoes is the favorite
Of course my daughter, students,and I love Pete the Cat! This book looks like it’s going to be great!
Love this author!! Cant wait to share itcwoth my class! Would love to win!!!
I love Pete the Cat books. I can’t wait to share this new one with my class!