Newbery Award Winners

Georgia Children's Picture Storybook Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book	The Rough-Face Girl	Rafe Martin/ David Shannon/ April 1992	Ages 4-8	This would be a great addition to a theme on Native Americans.  It would also be a good book to read when discussing honesty and moral character.	In this Indian version of Cinderella, the Rough-face Girl is persecuted by her evil sisters, but eventually gets her man in the end.  She is the only honest, sincere girl and the Invisible Being's sister approves of her for the Invisible Being.
	Picture Book	Hooway for Wodney Wat	Helen Lester/ Lynn M. Munsinger/ May 2002	Ages 4-8	A great book for learning about differences and accepting others.  Would be a great way to illustrate how to befriend someone, regardless of differences.	This is an adorable book about a rat who can't pronounce his name due to a speech impediment.  He is picked on by the rest of the class, but he shows the class when he gets rid of the class bully.
	Picture Book	If You Give A Mouse A Cookie	Laura Joffe Numeroff/ Felicia Bond/ June 1985	Ages 4-7	A good read-a-loud book and one that can be incorporated into literacy centers and independent reading/retelling.	A classic tale of events that unfold after giving a mouse a cookie.  The mouse becomes more and more demanding, taking the boy away from all of his plans to meet his demands.
	Picture Book	Dog Breath:  The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis	Dav Pilkey/ June 2004	Ages 4-8	Would be a great book to incorporate into a basic hygiene lesson.	Hally has horrible breath (hence "Hally-Tosis").  Her breath is so horrible that her owners want to give her away.  The children don't want to lose her so they try everything they can to keep her.  But, when robbers threaten the Tosis family, Hally's horrible breath saves the family belongings...and her saves her from being sent to live with another family.
	Picture Book	Miss Nelson is Missing!	Harry Allard/ James Marshall/ October 1985	Ages 4-8	Would be a good book to read during the first few days of school when discussing classroom rules/procedures.	Miss Nelson was such a nice teacher that her students were starting to run all over her, so she decides to play a trick on the students.  One day she is out from school and a substitute is sent in her place.  The Substitute is horrible to the students and they go out of their way to contact Miss Nelson to get her back to school.  When Miss Nelson returns, she returns to a new class-a class that values her and has a newfound respect for her.

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 Concept Book	Miss Spider's ABC	David Kirk/ March 2000	Ages 2-5	Used to teach/review the alphabet.	This is a colorful depiction of the alphabet.
	Counting Concept Book	One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish	Dr. Seuss/ Ring/ March 1960	Ages 4-8	Would be great to use when teaching colors, ordinal numbers, and rhyming sounds.	This is a book that teaches children colors, counting, rhyming words, and much more.
	Concept Book	Manners Can Be Fun	Munro Leaf/ May 2004	Ages 5-12	This would reinforce a theme on manners/morals.  It would also be a good book to incorporate into the beginning of the year experience when discussing rules/procedures for classroom behavior.	This book tells readers what manners are and why they are important.  How to have good manners is the ultimate theme that is stretched from home, school and on visits.  Children are encouraged to use manners at all times.

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	Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type	Doreen Cronin/ Betsy Lewin/ February 2000	Ages 3-7	This book contains rhyming words and could also be used with an animal theme.	A cute tale of cows (and later ducks) who make demands of the farmer.  When their demands are not met, the cows go on strike.  To end the strike, the farmer negotiates through the ducks who end up with demands of their own.
	Predictable Book	We're Going on a Bear Hunt	Michael Rosen/ Helen Oxenbury/ October 1997	Ages 2-5	A neat way of teaching over/under/above/below, etc.	A classic story of a family going on a bear hunt.  Throughout the story they face obstacles that they can't go through (physically) so they make modifications and have a great time together in the process.

Traditional Literature Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Literature (Ukranian Folktale)	The Mitten	Jan Brett/ October 1989	Ages 4-8	This would be a good book to use with animal units and with folktale/fairy tale units.	This book is a re-adaptation of a Ukranian folktale.  Nicki drops one of his mittens in the snow and it quickly becomes inhabited by animals in the woods.
	Traditional Literature (Fairy Tales)	The Original Mother Goose	Based on the 1916 Classic with Illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright/ April 1992	Ages 4-8	This would be good to use when teaching rhyming sounds.	A collection of classic Mother Goose rhymes.
	Traditional Literature	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Retold and Illustrated by James Marshall/ January 1998	Ages 4-8	This would be a good read-a-loud book and could later be beneficial in a retelling center.	A retelling of the classic "Goldilocks and the three bears" story.  Goldilocks samples each bear's food, chairs and beds.
	Traditional Literature	Sleeping Bunny	Retold by Emily Keller/ Pamela Silin-Palmer/ January 2003	Ages 4-8	This would be a good read-a-loud book and could later be beneficial in a retelling center.	In this Sleeping Beauty remake, a curse causes Bunny to be in a deep state of sleep for 100 years.
	Traditional Literature	The Sword in the Stone	T.H. White's Magical Story of Young King Arthur/ September 1978	Ages 10-17	This would add to any discussion of King Arthur or discussion of the midieval England.	This retells the original story of the education and training of young King Arthur.  He is preparing for the day in which he would pull the sword from the stone and become the King of England.

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
	Fantasy/Science Fiction	Corduroy	Don Freeman/ September 1976	Ages 2-5	This is one of my favorite books-therefore I think it would be good for reading for pleasure.  Students need to have opportunities to read just for the sake of reading and I feel like this would be a good book to incorporate in that category.	This is a heartwarming story of a teddy bear who remains on a store shelf because he is missing one of his buttons.  In search of his button, he goes throughout the mall and causes some trouble along the way.  He is eventually purchased by a little girl who mends his clothing and gives him a loving home.
	Fantasy/Science Fiction	Bill and Pete	Tomie dePaola/ July 1996	Ages 4-8	This would be a fun way to illustrate that all things need to practice dental hygiene.  It would also be good to use when talking about friendships and being loyal and helping each other.	As Bill goes to school and learns to read, write and spell, his friend (and toothbrush) Pete tags along with him.  They even go on an adventure and end up getting captured by the evil man who wants to turn Bill into a suitcase.  As Pete frees Bill, their bond as friends grows even stronger.
	Fantasy/Science Fiction	Stuart Little	E. B. White/ Garth Williams/ May 1974	Ages 9-12	This would be a good book to read for comprehension skills.  Since Stuart encounters so many things and goes on so many adventures in this book, it would be a great book to assess students' comprehension skills.	This book tales of Stuart Little setting-sail to find his best friend, the bird, whom he had only know for a little while.  He has quite an adventure in this book and enlightens the readers the whole way through.
	Fantasy/Science Fiction	The Eleventh Hour:  A Curious Mystery	Graeme Base/ September 1997	Ages 6-9	This would be a good book for children who enjoy mystery.  This could be a whole class assignment and the students could break apart in groups to try and solve the mystery of the missing feast.	This book centers around the elephant's 11th birthday and the feast that went missing.  An intreging mystery keeps all of the animals in search of the "top secret" to solve the puzzle.

Realistic Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	No, David!	David Shannon/ September 1998	Ages 4-8	This could be used when discussing opposites (you could ask students what the opposite of David's actions would be).	David does all kinds of mischievous things in this book and is constantly being repremanded by his mother.  At the end of the book though, David finally gets his hug from his mother....despite the mess that he has created in the house.
	Realistic Fiction	Fame and Glory in Freedom Georgia	Barbara O'Connor/ May 2003	Ages 8-12	This book would be good for illustrating the need for friendship and the rewards of reaching out to a little known classmate and being someone's friend.  This could also be a good introduction to spelling bees.	Bird Weaver talks the new, unpopular (and misunderstood) boy into being her partner for the spelling bee.  In her search to be noticed, Bird desparately wanted to win the spelling bee (and most importantly the trip to Disney World), so she and Harlem study for the bee night and day.  Obstacles occur, however a predictable, happy ending creates a cheerful story.
	Realistic Fiction	Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor/ September 2000	Ages 8-12	This book beautifully illustrates the friendship between a child and an animal and the role that family values play in a child's life.  It would be a great example of family values and reading for pleasure.	When Marty encounters the abused beagle, he goes out of his way to hide him from his owner, who abuses Shiloh.  Although he knows he should return the dog, he wants to give Shiloh a loving home and struggles with the descision of whether or not to return the dog.
	Realistic Fiction	Be Good to Eddie Lee	Virginia Fleming/ Floyd Cooper/ October 1993	Ages 4-8	I highly recommend this for every teacher to incorporate in their classroom in some way or another.  It naturally fits in a lesson on diversity and acceptance of others.	Eddie Lee has Down Syndrome and is often left out when the children play.  When Christy goes with Eddie Lee to see the water lillies she begins to understand that everyone is special in their own way and everyone deserves to be loved and accepted.

Historical Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction	Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls/ September 1996	Ages 9-12	This would be a great book to share with children when discussing the value of friendship and loyalty.  This would also be a great book for assessing comprehension of written material and even a book report.  This book has countless important moral lessons to be learned by all.	During the Great Depression, Billy works hard to be able to purchase two coon dogs for hunting.  When he finally gets the dogs, he takes them hunting out in the woods.  He is then challenged by some heartless young boys who have evil intentions of harming Billy's dogs.  To cheer him up, his Grandpa enters the dogs in a contest in which they win desparately needed money for the family.  After the contest the trio runs into a mountain lion.  The dogs save Billy from the lion, however the lion injurs one of the dogs so badly that he dies.  Then the other dog dies because she can't live without the other.  When Billy grows older he revisits the graves of the dogs and sees a red fern growing between them.  He remembers the legend of the red fern that only angels plant red fern seeds, which indicates that they never die and that the spot is sacred.
	Historical Fiction	Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan/ September 1987	Ages 8-10	This could be used during a discussion of what life was like long ago.  This could also be a good book to read with students who have lost a parent-it may provide them with a sense of belonging.	Sarah is a mail-order bride that is sent for by Anna and Caleb's father.  Their mother died when they were younger and Sarah comes to take care of the two children.  After a rather rocky start, Sarah teaches the children about life and what they need to be successful while growing closer to the children everyday.
	Historical Fiction	Goin' Someplace Special	Patricia C. McKissack/ Jerry Pinkney/ September 2001	Ages 4-8	A heartwarmimg story of a young girl's journey to be accepted would be a wonderful addition to discussions of slavery/segregation of the past.	A story of a girl growing up in the segregated south of years past.  Tricia encounters segregation first hand when she travels into town alone.  All the while Tricia remains strong on her search for "someplace special."  At the end of the book we discover that her special place is in fact the public library where "All are welcome."

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry Anthology	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein/ Shel Silverstein/ February 2004	Ages 4-12	Use to inspire students during poetry units.  Have students write their own poems after reading Silverstein's poems.	A collection of humorous poems used to teach children about a wide variety of topics.
	Poetry Anthology	Mary Had a Little Jam and Other Silly Rhymes	Bruce Lansky/ Stephen Carpenter/ April 2004	Ages 3-10	Use this to introduce children to poetry.  Would be especially useful for students who do not necessarily like poetry.  Another creativity booster for students-have them model Lansky's techniques by writing their own silly rhyme.	A compilation of silly poems that take their roots from some more commonly known poems.

Multicultural Books