Amy's Electronic Reading File

Electronic Reading File
By Amy Gibbs

(Table Titles include: Caldecott Winners, Newberry Winners, Multicultural, etc.)

Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak/ 1963	K-2	Children can cut various parts from a magazine to create their own wild thing.	Max has been sent to his room for being a "wild thing". His imagination goes wild.
	Modern Fantasy, Picture Book	Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type	Doreen Cronin Illu. by Betsy Lewin/2000	4-8	Let children write or draw a story of a different animal on the farm and what that animal might want.	The cows are getting a little demanding of farmer Brown.
	Fantasy, Picture Book	Olivia	written and illustrated by Ian Falconer/2000	4-8	Children can make Olivia puppets from brown paper lunch bags and construction paper.	Olivia is a typical little girl, but her parents still love her!
	Realistic Fiction	Owl Moon	By Jane Yolen/ 1987	4-8	Create an owl from various sized paper plates.	The child has been looking forawrd to going owling with father.
	Realistic Fiction, Picture Book	King Bidgood's in the Bathtub	Audrey Wood and Don Wood/1985	Preschool	Let children use food coloring mixed with bubbles to create a real "soupie" print.	Can anyone ever get King Bidgood out of the tub?
	Realistic Fiction,	The Relatives Came	Cynthia Rylant and Stephen Gammell/1985	4-8	Let children tell or write a book about their family.	The family is running out of room for anymore family!
	Picture book, Fantasy	Tops and Bottoms	by Janet Stevens/1995	4-8	Have objects cut in half deviding top and bottom and let children match them up correctly.	That sly rabbit tricks bear out of vegetables to feed his family
	Picture Book, Realistic and Historical Fiction	Ox-Cart Man	by Barbara Cooney/1979	4-8	Children create their own carts from a variety of cut out shapes.	Tells how families used to make a living in the old days.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	Olive's Ocean	Kevin Henkes/	8-12	Info	Info
	Realistic Fiction	Al Capone does my Socks	Gennifer Coldenko/2004	8-12	Talk about islands.	The son of a prison guard moves to Alkatraz and has to learn to copw with a new home and living with a sister who has autism.
	Realistic Fiction	Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo/2000	8-12	make "friendship bracelets" with beads.	A new move for a little girl was made much easier by meeting a new friend.
	Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction	Bud, not Buddy	By Christopher Paul Curtis/ 1999	8-12	Let children bring one special item for show and tell. Place all items in a suitcase.	A little boy growing up during the Great Depression without a mother, leaves his father home in search of his father.
	Realistic Fiction	A Girl Named Disaster	By Nancy Farmer/ 1996	8-12	Talk about Zimbabwe. Let children create masks found in that culture.	A little girl struggles against starvation and drowning on her way to Zimbabwe and comes to understand and be a part of Africa's spiritual life.

Concept Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical, Picture, Realistic Non-fiction	M is for Melody: A Musical Alphabet	By Kathy Jo Wargin Illu. by Katherine Carson/2004	4-8	Have a variety of instrumaents for children to play. Have them name what letter the instrument starts with.	Tie music into a musical alphabet.
	Fantasy, Picture	An Alphabet Mystery	By Audry Wood Illu. by Bruce Wood/2003	preschool	Children make an "alphabet soup" from letters cut from a magazine.	An adventure trying to find the lost letter of the alphabet.
	Fantasy, Picture	Ten Little Ladybugs	By Melanie Girth Illu. by Laura Huliska-Beith/	preschool	Let children create ladybug counting the spots on it's back.	Count the ladybugs that "leave" one by one.

Predictable Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classoom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Predictable	A Frog in the Bog	By Karma Wilson Illu. by Joan Rankin/2003	4-8	Create a poem of their own.	A story of a little frog sitting on a log in the swamp.
	Predictable	A Giraffe and a Half	By Shel Silverstein	4-8	Children do an "add-to" story of their own.	About a giraffe that gets mopre than he can handle or carry.

Poetry Anthology

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	Climb into my Lap: First Poems to Read Together	By Lee Bennett Hopkins Illu. by Kathryn Brown/	4-8	Let children write their own silly poem.	A collection of simple silly poems for young children.
	Poetry	Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud	By Charles Ghigna Illu. by John Spiers/	4-8	Children create puppy tracks with their hands and create poem about a puppy.	A collection of animal poems.

Fantasy

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fantasy, Picture	Bear Snores On	By Karma Wilson Illu. by Jane Chapman	4-8	Have a small classroom party.	A bear gets upset when he discovers he missed the party in his very own lair.
	Fantasy, Picture	Giraffes Can't Dance	By Giles Andeae Illu. by Guy Parker-Rees/1999	4-8	Let children create their own type of dance.	Gerald feels bad when the other animials make fun of his dancing abilities.
	. Fantasy	Little Bear's Friend	By Else Holmelund Minarik Illu. by Maurice Sendak/1960	4-8	Children create a "little bear" of their own with tissue paper.	Adventures with little bear and his friends.
	Fantasy	And to Think I saw it on Mulberry Street	By Dr. Seuss/1964	4-8	Children write a "crazy" story of something they saw.	What a tale the boy tells of what he saw on his way home from school.

Picture Books
(award winners)

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Predictable/ Picture	The Napping House won: Golden Kite Award ALA Notable Children's Book Booklist Editopr's Chioce	By Audrey Wood Illu. by Bruce Wood/1984	4-8	Children can draw a picture of their own home.	Everyone is piling up for a nap. There is a big surprise at the end.
	Realistic Fiction/ Picture	Where's my Cow? won: ANKH-MORPORK Librarian's Award	By Terry Pratchett Illu. by Melvin Grant/	4-8	Children can draw a picture of the most outrageous thing they can think of.	The story of a father telling a tall-tale to his son.
	Fantasy/Picture	The Kissing Hand won: Ed Press Winner	By Audrey Penn Illu. by Ruth Parker and Nancy Leak/	4-8	Create handprint cards for children to give their mothers for mother's day.	The little raccoon doesn't want to go to school until his mother shows him a way to not miss her while he is gone.
	Fantasy/Picture	The Rainbow Fish won: Christopher Award Winner Abby Award	By Marcus Pfister/	4-8	Create fish mobiles with crayon shavings on cardboard cutouts.	All of the little fish want one of the rainbow fish's special scales. Rainbow fish learns the value of sharing.
	Fantasy/ Picture	Buzzy the Bumblebee won: Best Picture Book	By Denise Brennon-Nelson Illu. by Michael Glenn Monroe/1999	4-8	Make bumblebees from styrofoam balls and wax paper.	Buzzy learns that it should be impossible for him to fly and has to find strength in himself.

Traditional Literature

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book	The Velveteen Rabbit	adapted by Kristine Lompart Writtin by Margery Williams Illu. by William Nicholson	4-8	Create sock bunny puppets.	A toy bunny and his n"boy" become friends, and after years of love, the bunny must find a new life.
	Picture Book, Fantasy	The Story of Pinnochio	Retold by Katie Daynes Illu. by Carlo Collodi	4-8	Make pinnochio from paper plates and "springs" made from construction paper for the nose.	Pinnochio, the wooden puppet, wants to becaome a real boy but must learn the value of honesty before his wish can come true.
	Picture Book, Fantasy	Jack and the Beanstalk	Adapted by Primarias Corporation Illu. by Paul Meisel	4-8	Plant sunflowers in paper cups.	Jack goes on a wils adventure on his beanstalk through the clouds and the sea. Will anyone believe him?
	Picture Book, Fantasy	Rumplestiltskin	Retold and Illu. by Paul O. Zelinsky	4-8	Do a madlib work sheet.	A girl needs the help of a little man and must repay him her most valuable possession, her son, if she can not guess his name.
	Picture Book, Fantasy	The Ugly Ducling	Adapted and Illu. by Jerry Pinkney	4-8	Use duck shaped stamps to create picture.	The poor little duckling doesn't fit in with his family, but he will soon see why!

Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Breif Description of the Book
	Historical and Relaistic Fiction	My Great Aunt Arizona	By Gloria Houston/ Illu. by Susan Condie Lamb/ 1992	4-8	Make old fashioned bonnets from folded paper.	Tells the story of growing up in the old days in the mountains and how life was different back then.
	Historical and Realistic Fiction	Westward to Home: Joshua's Oregon Trail Diary	By Patricia Hermes/	4-8	Create a wagon from construction paper.	The story of Joshua and hos family surviving the hardships of the wagon trail.
	Historical and Realistic Fiction	Little House on the Prairie	By Laura Ingles Wilder Illu. by Garth Williams/ 1935	4-8	Children go "fishing" for items found in the era of the story.	About a young girl and her family traveling across the plains from their home in Wisconsin to settle in a new place.

Informational

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Breif Description of the Book
	Informational	Sharks	By Seymour Simon	4-8	Use soap to carve shark teeth.	Inforamtion about different types of sharks and their lifestyles and habits.
	Informational	Animal Homes	By Angela Wilkes/ 2003	4-8	Create paper mache turtle shells.	Information about different types of animal homes and how they are each unique.
	Informational	Animals in Flight	By Steve Jenkins and Robin Page/ 2001	4-8	Create a bat with tissue paper and popcycle sticks.	Information about all types of animals that fly.
	Informational	Watch me Grow: Elephant	Edited by Lisa Magloff	4-8	Make elephant masks.	Information about elephants, their habits and environments.

Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Breif Description of the Book
	Picture Book, Realistic Fiction	When I was little: A four-year-old's Memoir of her Youth	Jamie Lee Curtis Illu. by Laura Connell/1993	4-8	Children make life-size shadows of themselves.	This typical little girl gives her side of why it is so hard to be four and how she has "grown up" so much.
	Picture Book, Informational	Good Boy Fergus	David Shannon/	4-8	Children can take care of their own pet, an egg, all day.	Fergus is a good dog with everyday habits that annoy his owners.
	Picture Book	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst Illu. By Ray Cruz/1972	4-8	Children can write a short story about a very bad day that they have had.	Alexander is having a horrible day. He never catches a break.
	Picture Book	The Stray Dog	Mark Simont/2001	4-8	Children create a net using yarn and other vcarious pieces.	This little stray dog is saved from the dogcatcher by a family that takes him in at the last minute.

Multicultural

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical and Realistic Fiction	Coming on Home Soon	Jacqueline Woodson Illu. by E. B. Lewis/ 19	K-2	Children find and write to a pen pal.	This young girl waits patiently with her grandmother for her mother to return, who has been away working during the war.
	Fantasy	Grandfather Tang's Story	Ann Tompert Illu. by Robert Andrew Parker/	4-8	Chil;dren create origami animals.	A grandfather tells his granddaughter a tale of animals that change themselves into different animals in order to "out-so" each other.
	Historical and Realistic Fiction	The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom	Bette Stroud Illu. by Erin Susanne Bennett	4-8	Children create their own quilt patches and the teacher binds them together.	A young girl creates a quilt with a secret path map to freedom for other slaves to escape.