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Electronic Reading File
Brooke Steinberg

Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Caldecott	Joseph had a little overcoat.	Simms Taback	Pre-K-2	Give each student a foot of fabric and have them create something with it or design a new outfit for Joseph.	What will Joseph make his over coat into next? This character has a shabby ole coat that he does not want to part with. He trims and re-shapes over and over again to make something new and usable.
	Caldecott	The Talking Eggs	Robert D. San Souci/Jerry Pinkney	K-3	Have children paint beautiful eggs to hang in classroom. Possibly have them incorporate letter for the week on the egg.	A poorly treated young girl meets an old lady in the woods and her kindness and honesty pay off.
	Caldecott	Sylvester and The Magic Pebble	William Steig/William Steig	K-3	Students will bring in a pebble and share it with the students. Also, look at the different kinds.	Sylvester wishes he is a rock. When turned into a rock, he remains a rock until his father mistakenly wishes him back.
	Caldecott	King Bedgood's in the Bathtub	Audrey Wood/Don Wood	K-3	Have students cut and paste what they would put in King Bedgood's bathtub.	This crazy king gets in the bath tub and will not get out despite the help from the court.
	Caldecott	The Storm Book	Charlotte Zolotow/ Margaret Bloy Graham	K-3	Teach children what ROY G BIV represents and have them paint a beautiful rainbow with their watercolors in ROY G BIV order.	A young boy is scared during the storm and as soon as it blows over he walks outside and discovers the rainbow after the rain.
	Caldecott Winner	Why Mosquitoes buzz in people's ears.	Verna Aardema/Leo and Diane Dillon	Pre K-3	Divide students into small groups and have each group create an open mind portrait of the mosquitoes mind.	This mosquitoe will not tell any more tall tales. He caused enough trouble in this jungle. It started with a simple story to the iguana and resulted in a chain reaction to the entire jungle.
	Caldecott Winner	Tuesday	David Wiesner	Pre K-3	Have students complete a double entry starting with If I could fly, I would: ELA2W1 a.	The big bull frog in this story wakes up on a Tuesday night to find him and his lily pad soaring through the air. Seems strange because all of the other animals are asleep. This book almost wordless.
	Caldecott Winner	The Man Who Walked Between The Towers	Mordicai Gerstein	K-3	Have volunteer students interview tightrope walker in a pretend Opray Winfrey Show.	The crazy character in this story threw a tight rope in between the World Trade Center towers and spent nearly an hour crossing the rope will performing stunts and tricks.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Newbery Winner	Island of The Blue Dolphins	Scott O'Dell	3-5	Have students create a collage including objects, pictures, drawings, etc... from the story.	A strange but beautiful indian girl survives spiritually and physically on a beautiful island off of the coast in California.
	Newbery Winner	Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli	5-8	Have students create a talking tableaux for 2 scenes from Maniac Magee and perform them for the class.	Legendary Maniac Magee leaves home because of his fueding aunt and uncle. He then moves from home to home until finally he finds a permanent one. Maniac Magee acquired his nickname from being a great football player.
	Newbery Winner	Ginger Pye	Eleanor Estes	4-8	Have students make their own puppet dog, Ginger Pye, using bags, construction paper, markers, and eyes.	Wonderful book! Always leaves you full of suspense where I couldn't put it down. A brother and sister buy a dog, Ginger Pye. This isn't just any dog thought. Ginger Pye was a super intelligent dog that even tracked Jerry all the way to school one day. Ginger Pye gets stolen and Jerry and Rachel Pye get to the bottom of it.
	Newbery Winner	The Cat that went to Heaven	Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth/Lynd Ward	9-12	Have students create what they think his paintings look liked with tempera paints.	Great book that any adult or child would enjoy. A cat brings a Japanese artist good fortune and changes his attitude about life and cats. He paints all kinds of animals except cats. Very emotional book!
	Newbery Winner	Thimble Summer	Elizabeth Enright	8-12	Have students create a giant thimble out of a paper cup to hang in their room for good luck. Have them paint the cup a silver base and allow them to decorate it any way they want.	A young girl, Garnet, finds what she believes to be a magical thimble one summer. She found this thimble near her swimming hole and good luck followed every since. Many magical and fun things happen to Garnet during her "Thimble Summer."

Picture Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book	Flag We Love	Pam Munoz Ryan/ Ralph Masiello	K-2	Have students pledge allegiance and sing “America the Beautiful.” Also, discuss what the flag represents. SSKH2	This beautifully illustrated book shows the history of our American flag.
	Picture book	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Judith Barrett/Ron Barrett	Pre K-3	Have students recall and illustrate some of the items that fell from the sky. Be sure to dictate what they draw. ELAKR6	Loved this one! Maybe it's because I like to eat. The town of Chewandswallow enjoys years of mashed potatoe snow, hamburger winds, and juicy rains until the food starts to get larger and larger. Then it became dangerous and the town developed a plan.
	Picture book	Miss Rumphius	Barbara Cooney	Pre-K-3	Create a garden like Miss Rumphius' using construction paper, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, and markers.	Miss Rumphius wants to travel all over the world as a young child. Her grandfather tells her this is possible but to be sure she makes a difference in the world. She traveled the world but felt she hadn't made a difference so she makes a difference with her beautiful flowers by her seaside home.
	Picture book	Doctor DeSoto	William Steig	Pre K-K	Let students divide into groups and create their own version of how the fox did or did not trick the mice. Give them felt and a felt board to illustrate their story. ELAKLSV1	Dr. DoSoto and his wife, both mice, treat all sorts of animals big and small. However, the dentist doesn't like to treat animals that have a taste for mice. A fox comes along one day with "a toothache," and Dr. DoSoto and his wife outsmart the fox and ruin his plan.
	Picture book	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	Pre-K-K	Have students create a bingo card with Carle across the top so they can remember the author. Have them fill in the bingo card with the items that the caterpillar made.	This very hungry caterpillar eats his way through the entire book until he becomes a beautiful butterlfy.

ABC/Counting/Concept books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	ABC Book	Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten	Joseph Slate/ Ashley Wolff	Pre-K-3	Sing ABC’s and allow students to go through each letter and draw on the board another animal that begins with the letter.Also, have students say their animal aloud and what it begins with. ELAKR5 a.	This book makes the first day of school very appealing. It uses animals and rhyming to illustrate the alphabet.
	ABC book	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr./Lois Ehlert	Pre-K-3	Let students pick styrofoam letters out of a cooler full of sand. Have them tell the letter they picked and the sound that it makes.	Cute Cute story about the alphabet climbing a coconut tree. This story will make you hum the tune the rest of the day.
	Concept book	I Read Signs	Tana Hoban	Pre K-1	Have students reasearch internet for pictures of signs and allow them to print the signs to post on the wall in the classroom for the children to remember. ELA4W3 d.	This book is great for teaching young children common street signs and symbols that they should know for safety.

Predictable books

Picture of Book

Genre

Title

Author/
Illustrator/
Copyright

Recommended Age/Grade
Level

Ideas for Classroom Use

Brief Description of the Book

Predictable book

Love

You

Forever

Robert N. Munsch/Sheila McGraw

Pre-K-3

Have students draw and write who they love.

This is one of my favorite books describing a mother’s love for her son.

Predictable Book

Rap A Tap Tap

Think of That!

Leo & Diane Dillon

Infant and Pre-K

Sing Rap A Tap Tap and try to tap themselves.

This book describes a man named Bojangles that tapped every where he went. Everyone knows Bojangles

Traditional Literature

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Literature	The Gingerbread Man	Jim Aylesworth/Barbara McClintock	Pre K-2	Have students decorate pre-cut gingerbread men.	A runaway gingerbread man escapes his maker until a crafty fox tricks him and gobbles him up.
	Traditional literature	Corduroy	Don Freeman	Pre-K-2	Have children draw and describe what their corduroy would do in the store. ELA1R6 a,b	This magical bear comes to life over night in his department stores and goes on an adventure.
	Traditional Literature	Cinderella	Charles Perrault/ Marcia Brown	4-8	Have students cut and paste scenes from the book that resemble Lois Ehlert style art with holes.	This version of Cinderella is the usual but the pictures in this book are fabulous.
	Traditional Literatre	Peter Pan	J.M. Barrie/Scott Gustafson	8-12	Create a story quilt that shows the scenes from Peter Pan using paper, fabric, crayons, etc...	Another great version of Peter Pan. Peter Pan, a young boy who never wanted to grow up flys with Wendy and her brothers to Neverland! I had forgot how good the story was.
	Traditional Literature	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer	Golden Books/ Linda Carl	K-2	Let students crate their own Rudolph to hang on their tree out of popsicle sticks, a small red cottton ball, and eyes.	Poor rudolph gets made fun of because his red nose. Little did those reindeer know, Rudolph saves christmas.

Fantasy/Science fiction books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fiction	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein/Shel Silverstein	K-2	Have children recall a time when they rejected someone. Next, have them write in a complete sentence how they can make it up to them. SS4CG4 a.	A tree loves a young boy that plays with the tree less and less the older he gets. Wonderful book about giving.
	Modern Fantasy/ Caldecott	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	K-2	Have children draw their room at home and what they wish it could be.	A mischevious young boy’s room turns into a forest and eventually an ocean. He finally becomes lonely and wants to return home.
	Modern Fantasy	Jumanji	Chris Van Allsburg	K-3	Create their own game using animals and the title Jumanji.	A brother and sister find an interesting game in the park and it turns in to a wild adventure.
	Modern Fantasy	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg		Make copies of the pictures and pass them out to groups of students. Let students make thought bubbles for what the characters are thinking.	A young boy asks a reindeer for his bell while on a mysterious train to the North Pole. His mom finds the bell under the tree the next morning.

Realistic fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	Mama, Across the Sea	Alex Godard/Alex Godard	K-2	Create what you think the letter that the girl receives from across seas says.	An island girl teaches her grandmother to write while waiting for her mother to return.
	Realistic Fiction	My Grandson Lew	Charlotte Zolowtow/ William P. Dubois	5-8	Draw Lew’s head and write the thoughts that Lew might have about his Grandpa.	This book made me cry. Lew’s mom discovers that Lew actually does remember his grandfather that passed away years ago.
		No, David!	David Shannon	Pre-K-3	Sing “no more monkeys jumping on the bed.”	David does everything he is not supposed to and is constantly told, “No!”
	Realistic Fiction	Loser	Jerry Spinelli	5-12	Create a museum containing elements from the book.	This book describes the life of the “different” kid in school. Very funny and sometimes sad.

Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction	Streams to the River, River to The Sea	Scott O'Dell/Blair/Peter Roop	10 - adult	Have students select a scene from the book and create a reader's theater. Also discuss plot, setting, and characters of scene. ELA2R4 l.	Great book that describes a young indian woman's journey to the Pacific on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her cruel husband and infant go along with her. Allows you to re-visit story of Sacagawea.
	Historical Fiction	Out of the Dust	Karen Hesse	10-adult	Have students experiment with writing their own poem. Let each stanza begin with Sometimes I wish:	Loved this book because it was in stanza form. Billie Jo, a fifteen year old girl, tells her hardships of living on her families wheat farm in Oklahoma. The story goes fast because she writes it in a series of poems.
	Historical Fiction	John Henry	Julius Lester/Jerry Pinkney	K-3	Have children search on the computer for more information about John Henry and create a collage about John Henry. SS1H2	Great story to read when talking about John Henry. Pictures are wonderful and emotional. In the story, John Henry takes on a challenge with a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

Poetry anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	Snoozers	Sandra Boynton	Pre-K-5	Give each student a copy of one of the poems and have students chorally read each line of the poem together. ELA5R4 c.	Borrowed this one from my niece. Wonderful bedtime poem book that kept me lauging poem after poem. Has seven cute poems with litte tabs to pull out on each one.
	Poetry	Your Favorite Seuss	Dr. Seuss/Maria and Molly Leach	K-3	Have one student at a time read a line of a poem from the book. Have each student stand and remain standing when they read. ELAKR4	Great combination of nine other previously published Dr. Seuss books. Like all Dr. Seuss books, the pictures are fun and wacky, and the poems have a funky twist.

Multicultural

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Multicultural	A Day's Work	Eve Bunting/Ronald Himler	K- 3	Have students look online for a spanish word that they don't know and learn the meaning of it. Combine Spanish words and post them in the classroom. ELAKR5	A young Mexican American boy helps his grandfather find work because he doesn't speak English. The boy doesn't learn gardening but he learns integrity from his grandfather.
	Multicultural	How My Parent's Learned to Eat	Ina Friedman/Allen Say	K-8	Bring in chopsticks and rice ,and let children attempt to grab rice with it.	Great book about a American sailor that meets a Japanese woman while in Japan. They both hesitate to talk to eachother in fear of looking silly because they come from different cultures.
	Multicultural	The Green Frogs	Yumi Heo	K-4	Create their own frog and have them write on the frog why they think frogs sing at nite time and during the rain.	Two young Japanese frogs continue to disobey their mother until they go to far. This story also explains why frogs cry out when it rains.
	Multicultural	What is Passover?	Harriet Ziefert/Lillie James	K-2	Bring in a sample of Jewish bread for the students to try.	This cute book is a neat way to learn what the Jewish passover is. The book contains flaps with pictures throughout it that help explain passover.
	Multicultural	Mrs. Katz and Tush	Patricia Polacco	K-3	Have students write two to three sentences about what they did or did not like about the story. ELA3R3 q.	A Jewish elderly woman, Mrs. Katz, and an african american boy, Larnel, share a common interest in a cat named Tush. Tush is an abondoned cat that Larnel found one day. Through their friendship they share with each other their cultures.

Informational books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational	The Potty Book for Girls	Alyssa Satin Capucilli/Dorothy M. Stott	Pre-K	Have students write how they could help their mom potty train their younger sister.	Hannah's parents bring home a surprise. It's a potty! Hannah discovers that she is too big for diapers and learns to potty in the toilet.
	Informational	What to Expect When You Go to the Dentist	Heidi Murkoff/ Laura Rader	K-2	Sing one of my favorite songs. “you brush your teeth, che-che-che.”	This book describes a child first trip to the dentist. It describes funny tools and the dentist to ease the worry.
	Informational	My Senator and Me: A dog's eye view of Washington D.C	Edward Kennedy/David Small	Pre-K-3	Make a timeline or schedule that displays the senators busy schedule. SSKE1	Cute book told from the view point of Ted Kennedy's dog. The dog takes us through a day in Washington D.C. as the senators pup.
	Informational	My Big Boy Potty	Joanna Cole/Maxie Chambliss	Pre-K	Have students write how they could help their mom potty train their younger brother	Very simiar to The Potty Book. Micheals parents bring home a "surprise potty," and he learns to use it. Pictures were colorful and cheerful to appeal to children.