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Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	It could always be worse	Picture Books	Margot Zemach	K-3	Students will draw a picture of their family and write several sentences about it.	A man lives in a one bedroom house with his family. A rabbi gives him advice and it gets crazy!
	Hey, Al	Picture Books	Arthur Yorinks/ Richard Egielski	K-3	Students will cut out construction paper and make a tropical bird.	Al and his dog were tired of life, so a bird came and flew them to paradise, or was it.
	Owl Moon	Picture Books	Jane Yolend/ John Schoenherr	K-3	Decorate a pine cone with leaves to make an owl.	A young girl and her Pa go owl calling and spend quality time together.
	The Paper Boy	Picture Books	Dave Pilkey	K-3	Students will make a hat out of newspapers.	The boy wakes up and goes through his daily routine of delivering news papers with his dog.
	The Stray Dog	Picture Books	Mark Simont	K-3	Use felt cutouts to make a dog.	A story about a family that finds a stray dog that becomes part of the family.
	The Polar Express	Picture Books	Chris Van Allsburg	K-3	Make a train out of paper towels, toilet paper rolls, and cardboard cutouts.	A young boy travels by train to the North Pole to meet Santa Clause.
	The Gardener	Picture Books	Sarah Stewart/ David Small	K-3	Use water colors to paint flowers.	A young girl writes stories about gardening and baking with her Uncle Jim.
	Where The Wild Things Are	Picture Books	Maurice Sendak	K-3	Make monsters out of clay or playdough.	Michael was sent to his room but went to become the King of the wild things instead.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest  Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Dear Mr. Henshaw	Realistic Fiction	Beverly Cleary/Paul O. Zelinsky	3-6	Students will keep a journal during this book and include likes/dislikes and or letters.	Leigh Botts writes letters to an author and then keeps a journal of letters about writing and his life.
	Summer of the Swans	Realistic Fiction	Betsy Byars	4-6	Use felt to create a story board from the book.	Sarah's brother Charlie is a handfull, but when he goes missing in the woods things change for her dramtically.
	Shiloh	Realistic Fiction	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	4-6	Do a readers theater to coordinate with the book.	Marty found a new best friend he named Shiloh.  But Shiloh belongs to someone else and Marty does many things to keep his new found friend.
	Sarah, Plain and Tall	Realistic Fiction	Patricia MacLachlan	3-5	Do a readers theater and act out scenes from the book. Strand 13: Theatre Arts	Sarah's life changes after she moves in with a family that has just lost their mother.
	Bridge to Terabithia	Realistic Fiction	Katherine Paterson	4-6	Make a bridge out of popsicle sticks.	A young boy and girl become friends and find a secret place where tragedy occurs.

Picture Books That Have Won Other Awards

Picture of Book	Title	Genre/ Award	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	If you give a mouse a cookie	Georgia Book Award	Laura Joffe Numeroff/ Felicia Bond	K-4	Use brown paper or cardboard, glue, sugar, and chocolate chips to decorate your very own cookie.	If you give a mouse a cookie, you will never guess what else it will want.
	No Jumping  On The Bed!	Georgia Book Award	Tedd Arnold	K-4	Write a story of a time that you jumped on the bed.  What happened?	Walter loved to jump on hid bed everyday until one day it fell through the floor. Uh oh!
	Leo the Magnificat	Georgia Book Award	Ann M. Martin/Emily Arnold McCully	2-5	Write a poem about Leo's adventures while he lived at the church.	Leo the cat came to live in a church and left twelve years of memories when he left.
	Bark George	Georgia Book Award	Jules Feiffer	PK-2	Draw a picture of a dog and use thought bubbles to write what the dog is thinking.	Georges Mom can't get him to bark, so she takes him to the vet and it gets crazy.
	My Teacher Sleeps in School	Georgia Book Award	Leatie Weiss/Ellen Weiss	2-4	Students will write a poem about their teacher.	The kids think Mrs. Marsh sleeps at school. They look for clues and try to find out more.

ABC/Counting/Concept Books

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustraton	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	ABC Books	Bill Martin/John Archambault and Louis Ehlert	PK-2	Learn to dance to an alphabet song. Strand 2: Dance	Cute book about all the letters of the alphabet climbing up a coconut tree.
	P is for Peach: A Georgia Alphabet	ABC Book	Karen Crane/ Mark Braught	PK-2	Color a peach and write a fact about Georgia on it.	Letters of the alphabet are used to tell facts about the state of Georgia.
	My Very Own Big Dictionary	ABC Book	The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries/Pamela Cote	Pk-2	Make a alphabet dictionary.	The letters of the alphabet are written along with words that begin with each letter

Predictable Books

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Brown Bear, Brown Bear  What do you see?	Predictable Books	Bill Martin/Eric Carle	PK-3	Use water colors to paint any animal from the book. Strand 2: Visual Arts	A bear tells what is looking at him.
	Polar Bear, Polar Bear  What do you hear?	Predictable Books	Bill Martin/Eric Carle	PK-3	Draw a zoo and glue animal crackers inside.	The zoo keeper and children hear all different kinds of animals in the zoo

Traditional Literature

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit	Traditional Fantasy/Folk Tale	As told by Julius Lester/Jerry Pinkney	3-5	Students will pick characters, dress up, and perform a mini play for the class. Strand 8: Theatre Arts	Tales of Brer Rabbit and his friends.  They expereince many different obstacles through the book.
	Cinderella	Tradtional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Retold by: Hara Lewis/Barbara Lanza	PK-3	Students will do an interview with the characters from the story, like the Oprah Winfrey Show. Strand 2: Theatre Arts	Cinderella is treated terribly by her step mother and step sisters, but her magical fairy godmother helps her find true happiness.
	Little Red Riding Hood	Tradtional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Sam McBratney/Emma Chichester Clark	PK-3	Create an open mind portrait of Little Red Riding Hood, grandmother, or the wolf.	Little Red Riding Hood only wants to visit her grandmother but gets an unsupected suprise.
	Pinocchio	Traditional Fantasy/ Fairytale	Retold by: Walt Disney	PK-3	Students will make puppets and show them to the class.	Pinocchio has a hard time telling the truth and it really shows through his nose.
	The Three Little Pigs	Tradtional Fantasy/ Folktale	Retold by: Steven Kellogg	PK-3	Students will complete a draw-a-rhyme story with a pig.	The three little pigs are having touble with the big bad wolf.  But can they outsmart him in the end?

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Feathers and Fools	Animal Fantasy	Mem Fox/Nicholas Wilton	K-3	Use feathers and glue to create a peacock or a swan.	Peacocks and swans fight but their children become friends.
	Tough Boris	Modern Fantasy	Mem Fox/Kathryn Brown	PK-3	Make a pirate eye patch with black paper and string.	A pirates actions are described as mean and nasty until his trusty parrot dies.
	Piggies	Animal Fantast	Audrey and Don Woods	PK-2	Use pink foam paper and pink pipe cleaners to make a pig.	A story about different pigs that act alike and look funny and silly.
	Click, Clack, Moo Cows that type	Animal Fanasty	Doreen Cronin/Betsy Lewin	K-3	Use paint and sponges to create a farm scene with cows.	The cows on Farmer Brown's farm type letter because they want electric blankets.

Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Ruby Holler	Realistic Fiction	Sharon Creech	3-5	Make a quilt with drawings from the book.	Two children live in a foster home that is putrid but then get to experience great things with an older couple.
	Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!	Realistic Fiction	Mem Fox/Marla Frazee	K-2	Use crafts to create a messy collage like a mess  Harriet made in the book.	Harriet drives her mother crazy by making messes all over the house.
	Snow	Realistic Fiction	Uri Shulevitz	K-2	Creat a snow scene using glue, sugar/salt, and cotton balls. Also cut out snowflakes  from white paper. Strand 3: Visual Arts	A young boy awaits a big snowfall to blanket the place where he lives.
	The Great Gilly Hopkins	Realistic Fiction	Katherine Patterson	3-5	Complete a double entry journal for this book with what you have read and how it relates to your life.	Gilly is not a happy child, maybe because she moves from place to place and has nowhere to call home.  Gilly wants to find out about her mother and she has many experiences along the way.

Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Number The Stars	Historical Fiction	Lois Lowry	3-6	Put children into literaure circles with other classmates.	Anne Marie has a difficult time living during the brutal war.  She saves her family and friends from German soldiers and historical facts are given.
	The Diary of Anne Frank	Historical Fiction	Anne Frank	4-6	Do interviews with characters from the book, like the Oprah Winfrey Show.	Anne Frank was a young jewish girl that was locked in an attic  to hide out from Nazi's. She wrote this diary about her experiences.
	The little house in the big woods	Historical Fiction	Laura Ingalls Wilder/Garth Williams	3-6	Use felt to create a story board that relates to the book.	Laura Ingalls and her family go through many hardships during the late 1800's and they show what it was like to live and work in those days.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Poetry for Young People	Poetry	Edna St. Vincent Millay	5-6	Create your very own book of poetry and include drawings or pictures for each.	A collection of beautiful and heartfelt poems.
	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Poetry	Shel Silverstein	K-5	Draw-A-Rhyme Story: fill in blanks of rhyming sentences to draw a picture from the poetry book. Its silly and fun!	A collection of humorous and crazy poems that are great for introducing children to poetry. Anything goes with Shel Silversteins wild poetry.

Multicultural Books

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	Chato and the Party Animals	Multicultural/Hispanic	Gary Soto/Susan Guevara	K-3	Use colleague technique to create a party scene from the book.	Chato desperately wants to attend his friend's birthday party and madness occurs.
	Too Many Tamales	Multicultural/Hispanic	Gary Soto/Ed Martinez	K-3	Create an open mind portrait with either Maria or her mother.	Maria helps her mother make tamales then realizes the ring she was not supposed to wear was lost while she was cooking them.
	A Irish Night Before Christmas	Mulicultural/Irish	Sarah Kirwan Blazek/James Rice	1-3	Have Christmas tree in the classroom.  Allow students to make stockings and ornaments to decorate it with.	A humorous Irish twist on the night before Christmas with a strange santa and a donkey and carriage.
	Africa Dream	Multicultural/African	Eloise Greenfield/Carole Byard	1-3	Students will work in groups to produce a museum with items  representing the book.	A young girl travels to Africa in her dreams.  She experiences the market place, dancing, and animals throughout..
	Listen to the Desert: Oye al desierto	Mulicultural/Hispanic	Rosann Semchuk	1-3	Make a book that has  pictures of words and  use Spanish terms to describe them.	Listen to different animals and desert sounds with Spanish words incorporated.

Informational Books

Picture of Book	Title	Genre	Author/Illustrator	Interest Level	Ideas for Classroom	Brief Description
	The ABC's of Black History	Informational Book	Deloris Holt/Samuel Bhang Jr.	3-5	Choose one Black American and research the person to give an oral presentation.	Facts about Black Americans are featured by last name.
No Picture of Book Found	Atlanta: A downtown America book	Informational Book	Pegeen Snow	4-6	Make a big book with your favorite facts about Atlanta.	Historical facts and places to visit in Atlanta.
No Picture of Book Found	A guide to American States: Tennessee The Volunteer State	Informational Book	Rosann Semchuk	4-6	Learn the state song for Tennessee. Strand 1: General Music	Facts, food, sports and more are featured from Tennessee.
	Presidents	Informational Book	James Barber	4-6	Make a face mask of one president from the book.	Start in 1789 and look at presidents up through 1997.  Facts and information are found for each president.

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