Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Picture Book	Color for Thought	Fifth-grade students of Coast Episcopal School in Long Beach, Mississippi	ages 4-8	Have a color of the week.  Make some of the items in the book.	Kids Are Authors: This book takes you through some interesting perpectives of things in color.
	Picture Book	Ellington Was Not A Street	Ntozake Shange	ages 4-8		Coretta Scott King:
	Picture book	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Mordicai Gerstein	ages 4-8	Make pictures on Microsoft paint pad to draw the tight rope walker and the two twin towers.	Boston Globe Horn Book Award Winner: Disguised as a construction worker, a tight rope walker climbs to the top of the twin towers and stretches out a rope to walk across.
	Picture book	Just a Minute!: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book	Yuyi Morales	baby- pre-k	Sequence the picture cards with scenes from the story on them.	Grandma tries to stall when skeletons come to visit her for her birthday and ask her to come go with him.  She manages to find a million things to do before she has to go.
	Picture book	Miss Nelson is Missing	Harry Allard	ages 4-8	When discussing letter writing: Write Miss Nelson a letter begging her to come back.	Georgia Children's Book: The students take advantage of Miss Nelon until she leaves them without a teacher.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Concept book	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault	baby-pre-k	Create a center with magnetic letters that resemble the ones in the story.  Have students make words with them.	The letters of the alphabet are trying to get up in the tree, but will there be enough room?
	Concept book	123 For You and Me	Meg Girnis	ages 4-7	Let students make cards for a matching game.  Laminate and let them play.	This counting book teaches and shows children the simplicity of numbers.
	Concet book	Shapes, Shapes, Shapes	Tana Hoban	baby-pre-k	Sing the shape songs and make corressponding shape patterns.	The children are asked to interact in this book by finding the shapes that the author is looking for.

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Predictable	There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly	Simms Taback	ages 4-8	Use for Reader's Theatre	The old lady has swallowed a fly, but why? This story sequences the animals that the old lady swallows all because she swallowed a fly to beging with.
	Realistic Ficton	The Doorbell Rang	Pat Hutchins	ages 4-8	Story drama where students act out what happens in the story.	Mom makes cookies for her children.  Friends come to visit and have to share, countless times.  But, Grandma comes and saves the day when she brings another batch of cookies.  Nobody makes cookies like Grandma.

Traditional Literature

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator	Recommended Age	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Traditional Literature	It Could Always Be Worse	retold by Margot Zemach	ages 4-8	Write about your worst day and explain how it could be worse.	A Yiddish folk tale:  A man lives with his mother, his wife, and his six children.  Things couldn't get any worse until he asks the Rabbi for advice.
	Traditional Literature	Hansel and Gretel	retold by the Grimm Brothers	ages 4-8		These clever children overcome their fears and victor over evil in the end.
	Traditional Literature	Jack and the Bean Stalk	Carol Ottolenghi	ages 4-8	Plant seeds and let children take care of then while watching them grow.	Alazy boy named Jack traded his cow for magical beans instead of money.  He plants these seeds that grow into a giant stalk.
	Traditional Literature	Little Red Riding Hood	Candice Ransom	ages 4-8	Draw some things that we might take to Grandma if she were sick.	Little Red Riding Hood is trying to get to her Grandmother's house when she is stopped by an ugly wolf.
	Traditional Literature	The Three Little Pigs	Patricia Seibert	ages 4-8	Build the three houses.	The three little pigs build houses each for themselves of which none are made of the same.  This big bad wolf tries to huff and puff and blow the house down.

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator	Recommended Age	Ideas for Classroom        Use	Brief Description of Book
	Fantasy	The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body	Joanna Cole/ Bruce Degen	ages 4-8	Make 3-D versions of human body parts.	Mrs. Frizzle takes her students on a magical ride inside the human body.  She shrinks the bus and the kids to go into Arnold. Weaving their way in and out of organs, her students learn abouth the human body.
	Fantasy	Go Away, Big Green Monster	Ed Emberly	ages 4-8	Make monster masks.	This book alows children to overcome the fear of monsters by letting them create him and scare him away.
	Fantasy	Alien Invaders	Lynn huggins-Cooper	ages 4-8	Make items that these "aliens" would like to take back home with them such as fruit, candy, etc.	A young boy thinks aliens have invaded his house, but really the creatures are bugs that are flying around.
	Fantasy	The Talking T. Rex	Ron roy/ John Steven Gurney	ages 4-10	Make rubbings of fossils and bones from "dinosaurs."	A group of boys decide to raise money for a dinosaur museum by taking a Tyrannosaurus Rex around to help the process.  The boys try to discover who has taken money from the fund along the way.

Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Realistic Fiction	I Wanna Iguana	Karen Kafma Orloff/ David Catrow	ages 4-8	Write letters to other classroom asking them if they would like to have an iguana.	Alex begs his mother for an iguana by writing her letters to try to prove he is responsible.
	Realistic Fiction	Dancin' In the Kitchen	Wendy Gelsanliter and Frank Christian/ Marjorie Priceman	ages 4-8	Make musical instruments out of boxes, rubberbands, tin cans, water, etc.	When it turns six oclock at Grandma's hose, the family gathers to dance in the kitchen to help cook.
	Realistic Fiction	I Forgot My Shoes	Jessica Harper / Kathy Osborn	ages 4-8	Use shoe and feet patterns to make reminders for children.	When this girl forgets her shoes, the whole day is messed up with other people forgetting normal things too.
	Realistic Fiction	The Great White Man-Eating Shark	Margaret Mahy/ Jonathon Allen	ages  4-8	Make shark fins like the one Norvin wore in the story.	Norvin thinks he can be sly by putting on a shark fin to make himself look like one in the ocean.  However, he gets caught.

Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Historical Fiction	Number the Stars	Louis Kowry	grades 3-5	Make the necklace that on the cover of the book using tin foil.	Annamarie's family helps hide Ellen, her best friend, during the search for the Jews.  The family helps to smuggle the girl out of the country.
	Historical Fiction	Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	ages 9-12	Trave a wagon similar to those they used in the book and decorate with cotton balls, sticks, and leather pieces.	Tired of the overpopulated area where they lived, the Ingalls family packed up their stuff and moved west to settle.  The family must overome the stuglles and survive in the wilderness.
	Historicl Fiction	My Dream of Martin Luther King	Faith Ringgold	ages 4-8	Make dream clouds.  Write about what you dream about and how we can make it a reality like Mr. Kind did.	The author had a dream about Martin Luther King as a child and growing up in to the adult he became.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of Book
	Poetry Anthology	With A Crash and A Bang	John Pikulski	ages 4-8	Let children choose one to raed every day.	Poetry from diggerent centuries gather here to be read by children.
	Poetry Anthology	The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems	Donald Hall	ages 4-10	Turn each poem into a song.	Moving from one century to the next with this collection of poems will be fun to read to children.

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