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Fiction with Realistic Message
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Once a mouse…
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Marcia Brown
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Ages 4-8
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This book can be used to give a moral lesson to the students. They can draw pictures of something that they really liked and lost or had to learn to be nicer about.
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In the book a mouse gets a gift that he takes advantage of. In the end he has the gift taken away and is back to being a small mouse.
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Fiction Informational
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The Snowy Day
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Ezra Jack Keats
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Ages 4-8
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You could use this story to tell about the season winter. To finish the lesson you could have the students make their own snowflakes, snow men and sleds out of paper, cotton balls, and popsicle sticks (for the sled).
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The story is about a boy who has many adventures in the snow.
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Fantasy with a Realistic Message
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Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
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Mo Willems
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Pre-school
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It could be used to teach children how to express how much they like different books and other things. The teacher could design a big, colorful thermometer or three-part rubric with colorful dots, where the students could learn about degrees of likes and dislikes.
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This book is about a pigeon that wants to drive a bus. During the story the pigeon tries to convince the reader to let him drive the bus. Logical reasons are presented why he cannot drive the bus.
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Fiction Informational |
Ben’s Trumpet
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Rachel Isadora
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Ages 4-8
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This book can be used to introduce different musical instruments. The students can make an instrument of their own from such items as plastic milk cartons, cookie tins, and oatmeal boxes, etc.
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This book is about a boy who wants to be a trumpet player. He plays a pretend trumpet until one of the local musicians lets him play a real trumpet.
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Fantasy with a Realistic Message
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
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William Steig
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Ages 4-8
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With this story some of the students in class can act out his adventures and maybe one could even be the rock and let the other students know his thoughts
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is about a boy who makes a wish on a magic pebble and ends up becoming a rock. He is unable to change back until his parents come and sit on him, as a rock, and make a wish for him to be himself again.
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Fantasy Informational
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Green Eyes
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A. Birnbaum
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Ages 4-8
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This book can be used to teach the seasons to kindergarten and pre-kindergarten. Students could decorate the four sides of a box with seasonal scenes featuring the little cat
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This book is about a little cat who spends his time in a box and in his yard when he is big enough to climb out. The story tells of the different seasons he goes through.
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Fantasy with a Realistic Message
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Marshmallow
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Clare Turlay Newberry
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Ages 4-8
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Students can draw pictures of their siblings and describe how they get along. Or they could draw pictures of the pets in their home to show how they share the affections of their owners.
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This classic story from the 1940’s features a little bunny named Marshmallow who arrives at a home where an old lady and a tabby cat named Oliver have lived together for all of Oliver’s life. The cat cannot accept that there is another animal in the world. They have to learn to get along.
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Realistic Fiction
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Owl Moon
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Jane Yolen
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Ages 4-8
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This book can be used just as an art lesson. The class could have a discussion about what the students like to do with a specific adult family member and either draw a picture of it or create something from the experience. For example, from this experience, a class could make cut-out owls.
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This book is about a son who goes owling with his father. They pass all types of animals as they go trough the forest. The father makes owl noises and finally attracts an owl. It swoops over and watches them. The father and son go home satisfied.
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NEWBERY AWARD WINNERS |
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| Picture of Book | Genre | Title | Author/Illustrator | Recommended Age/Grade Leve | Ideas for Classrooom Use | Brief Description of Book |
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Fantasy Chapter Book |
Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine | Ages 9-12 | Students are old enough to write stories about what they did or would do if they were asked to obey without being able to question. When is it right or necessary to question authority figures and how best to do that? | A retelling of the Cinderella story where Ella is cursed to have to follow orders by an inept fairy named Lucinda. The book shows how Ella manages her curse while looking for Lucinda to reverse it. She also meets her prince charming but the story is much more modern and empowering for young women. |
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Realistic Fiction Chapter Book | Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath | Ages 9-12 | The class can create recipes (or actual food from home) for foods that go on a waffle. They can use the creations to talk about things that go together and things that do not. They can discuss how food is related to family, community, and sharing. | Primrose Squarp’s parents have disappeared at sea and she is forced to live in a Canadian harbor town (Coal Harbour) with her busy Uncle Jack and various unusual guardians. Her joy is to go to the Girl in the Red Swing Restaurant where she learns to cook – mostly on waffles. Everything in this restaurant is served on a waffle including seafood and lasagna. The book is about how to find out what things that go together and are acceptable – both in food and in life. |
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Realistic Fiction Also Multicultural Chapter Book |
Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata | Ages 9-12 | The class should look at the other ethnicities in their school and write and think about the different cultures that these students represent. Is there a word like “kira” that expresses something special in other cultures as this word does in Japanese? | Katie and her sister Lynn are Japanese-Americans who move from Iowa to a small South Georgia town with their parents in the 1950’s. There are only 31 Japanese families in their area. “Kira” is the Japanese word for “glittery.” The girls look for shining moments and happy things in their lives as their parents spend many hours working in a chicken-processing plant. Eventually, Lynn dies of lymphoma and Katie is left to remember how she cared for her sister. Katie learns that life can have shining moments even in poverty and loneliness. |
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Realistic Fiction Also Historical Chapter Book |
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | Gary D. Schmidt | Ages 9-12 | The class should do a project on Malaga Island and other important African-American islands such as Sea Island in Georgia. They can investigate how change has affected the people on these islands. | This is a sad and serious book about racism in a coastal Maine town in 1912. Turner Buckminster, the preacher’s son, befriends Lizzie Bright, an African-American from Malaga Island. All of the inhabitants are forced off the island and taken to live in a converted old folks home. Lizzie dies, but Turner spends his life fighting racism |
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Realistic Fiction with Poetry and Drawings Chapter Book |
Criss Cross | Lynn Rae Perkins | Ages 9-12 | Students should practice writing Haiku about growing up or about their favorite possession, such as Debbie’s locket in the book. | This book concerns a number of young adolescents growing up in the 1970’s. Debbie and her friend Hector are the main characters. They both write to each other and to others as they try to sort out what it means to grow up. |
MULTICULTURAL |
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| Picture of Book | Genre | Title | Author/Illustrator | Recommended Age/Grade Level | Ideas for Classroom Use | Brief Description of Book |
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Modern Fantasy | Kenti an ih Pa Mek wahn Doary | The Belize Kriole Project | K-2 | I would use this book to introduce different cultures and different languages. In the higher grades, maybe second grade, different countries could be introduced. | In this book a father and son set out to make a kind of boat. The book is written in Kriole. |
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Fiction Informational | Pink and Say | Patricia Polacco | Ages 5-8 | I could use this book to introduce differences and friendships. Students could draw pictures of what they like about friends who are “different” in their community or class. | The book is about two boys who were involved in a war. One was black and the other was white. The story tells how they become lasting friends through rough times. |
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Fiction Informational | Bisi and the Golden Disc | Carol Olu Easmon | Ages 4-8 | This book can be used to introduce different cultures and ways people get married. The class could act out a marriage from another culture. | This book is about a king’s daughter who gains the love of two men: a kind man and a evil man. The good man prevails in the end. |
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Multicultural Informationa |
No is No si is yes |
Ana Calan Illustrator: Daniel Chaskielberg |
Grades K-3 | This book can be used to introduce the basics of Spanish to elementary school children. The teacher will need to learn how to pronounce the Spanish words correctly. Students can label drawings bilingually. | This book it shows English and Spanish words connected in pairs with brilliant illustrations. |
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Fiction Historical |
Ruby’s Wish |
Written by Shirin Yim Illustrated by Sophie Blackall |
Ages 4-8 | Students can draw pictures of life in 19th century Japan and learn what girls and boys were supposed to do in that culture. They could then draw what they hope to be or do when they grow up. They could also draw or list the books that they love most. | Ruby defies late 19th century Japanese values and her wealthy grandfather by insisting on reading things that are not about marriage and by proclaiming that she is going to university. The book has a strong message for girls about their right to independence. |
Other Awards |
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Other awards: Kids Are Authors Award |
Color for Thought | Fifth grade students | The class could write on what colors mean to them and add illustrations as these students have done. | The class could write on what colors mean to them and add illustrations as these students have done. | Students describe colors and their origins in nature and what the colors mean to the students. |
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Realistic Fiction but Futuristic Chapter Book Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award and the Guardian Award |
How I Live Now | Meg Rosoff | Ages 12 and above | A Grade Seven Class could read this book and write about how the presence of foreign invaders (or terrorists) might change their lives. | Daisy is from Manhattan but moves to Britain to live with her Aunt Lizzie Penn and her cousins. She falls for her cousin Edmond but is separated from him when England is invaded by terrorists and she has to be evacuated.All of their lives are changed forever by the year of occupation. |
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NonFiction/Historical Biography Winner of the BCCB Blue Ribbon Prizwe for Nonfiction |
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Civil Rights | Russell Freedman | Ages 9-12 | Invite students to download Marian Anderson’s music on their MP3 players or computers and to write their impressions of it. The teacher could supply a video of one of her performances for students to discuss and write about. | Marian Anderson was a famous African-American, internationally recognized as a concert singer, who was banned from appearing in white America. The book opens with her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 - an event arranged by Eleanor Roosevelt over the objects of such groups as the D.A.R. The book then tells her life story in flashback and shows how she became a symbol for the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Informational Biography. Winner of the Robert F`. Sifert Informational Book Honor |
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave his People Writing | James Rumford | Ages 4-8 | Have students use water colors and pastels on heavy paper to do pictures of the sequoia redwood trees and the forest and its animal and human inhabitants. | A richly illustrated book about the sequoia forest in California and the Cherokee leader who created a syllabary to produce a written form of his Cherokee dialect in the early 1800’s.The author did the illustrations himself to show the massive trees and the culture of the native in that forest. |
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Nonfiction Informational Parents’ Choice Gold Award |
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Ages 9-12 | One powerful use of the book would be to have students write on how they feel about people who are different and what they have been told that makes them draw those conclusions. This book could also be featured in a unit on the holocaust where the Diary of Anne Frank is normally taught. | The book features the stories and personal photographs of twelve people who were members of Hitler’s Youth Corps from 1926 to the end of World War II. Each person tells his story from his own perspective and shows how young people were misguided into hating Jews and into persecuting them and destroying their homes and cities because they had been raised to believe that Jews were evil. |
Concept Books |
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Concept Books | Ten Sly Piranhas |
William Wise Illustrator: Victoria Chess |
Ages 4-8 | This book can be used to introduce subtraction. The students can make piranhas of their own and subtract them. | Ten sly piranhas are swimming in a river, but one at a time they disappear, until there is one left. Now that this round overeater is the only surviving piranha, he is confident that he can eat anybody. But, while he may be the most clever fish in the river, he is no match for the crocodile lurking on the bank. |
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Concept Books | My first Riddles | Pictures by Judith Hoffman Corwin | Preschool | This cute little book can be an opening for guessing games and describing things. | This book has 9 little riddles for preschool aged children. |
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Concept books | Animalia | Graeme Base | Ages 4-8 | This book can help in learning the alphabet. They could draw letters as animals. They should have assistance because the words are too big for kindergarteners. | This book goes through the alphabet and has an animal for each letter doing something that starts with the same letter. Elegantly illustrated |
Predictable Books |
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| Picture of Book | Genre | Title | Author/Illustrator/Copyright | Recommended Age/GradeLevel | Ideas for Classroom Use | Brief Description of the Book |
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Predictable | Down on the farm |
Merrily Kutner Illustrator: Will Hillenbrand |
Ages 4-8 | This book could be used to introduce animal sounds. As you go through the book students could say the animal sounds as you get to them and imitate the animal’ movements. | This book is about the sounds farm animals make throughout the day. It goes from morning to night. |
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Predictable | Chicka Chicka Boom Boom |
Bill Martin jr., John Archambault Illustrator: Lois Ehlere |
Ages 4-8 | It can be used to teach the order of the alphabet. | This book teaches the letters in a cool, quick- paced rhyme. |
Traditional books |
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| Picture of Book | Genre | Title | Author/Illustrator/Copyright | Recommended Age/GradeLevel | Ideas for Classroom Use | Brief Description of the Book |
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Traditional+ Picture Book. Fairy Tales and Nonsense Poems and Stories. Most contain ethical and moral messages. | The Random House Children’s Treasury: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes & Nonsense Verse |
Edited by Alice Mills with Illustrations by Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, Randolph Caldecott, E.V. Boyle, Richard Doyle, et al |
This book is useful from Pre-K through at least Grade 5 for traditional stories and verses. | It is an excellent reference resource for teachers. The stories can be read to younger children and illustrations shared. Older children could act out the tales. |
This book contains over 430 pages of richly illustrated stories and nursery rhymes from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves to Cinderella. It is indexed by first lines to make referencing easier. |
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Traditional + Multiculturalism | Ten Traditional Children’s Jewish Stories |
Edited with Stories by Gloria Goldreich. Illustrated by Jeffrey Allon. Pitspopany Press, rev. 2000 |
Ages 8-12 | This book could be used in a multicultural unit on Jewish culture. Students could fashion Golems from clay as an art activity. Students will have to be given some historical background but can then discuss the importance of family and faith in the culture. The poor and old are especially respected in these stories. | This collection includes retellings of famous Yiddish stories that go all the way back to Rabbi Nachman the famous 19th Century story-teller and Peretz in the Twentieth Century. Stories include the famous tale of the Golem, the clay spirit who came to life to protect the Jews in Prague from the programs and warm stories such as The Match Maker which tells of the marriage between a very rich man and a very poor woman. |
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Traditional Chapter Book+ Historical with some magic and realistic fantasy. | Robin Hood: A Classic Illustrated Edition |
Cooper Edens (based upon E. Charles Vivian’s original telling) with illustrations by Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Honor C. Appleton, et al. |
Ages 4-8 | Students could draw scenes from peasant life in Sherwood Forest. They could use construction paper, paint, and feathers to make hats and famous figures such as Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and the Black Knight. | This chapter book contains the adventures of Robin Hood from his birth to the formation of his band (Friar Tuck, Will Scarlett)and his struggles with the Black Knight. It emphasizes how his arrows were used for good to bring peace to all of the people of Sherwood Forest |
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Traditional Chapter Book + fantasy. The values are realistic, but the events are fantasy. |
Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) |
Original Story by H.M, Barrie. New illustrations by Michael Hague. | Ages 4-8 | The chapters will have to be read to younger children who can then recreate the nursery or Neverland in drawings. They could construct popsicle stick figures of Peter, Wendy, Tinkerbell, etc. and make mobiles of them flying on strings or fishing line. | H.M. Barrie’s telling of Peter’s make-believe world with Captain Hook, Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys is one of the greatest stories imaginable at any age. Every chapter is gripping and creative and full of learning opportunities about fair play, independence, and friendship. |
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Traditional Fantasy. | The Little Mermaid. | Retold by Rachel Isadora (from the original story by Hans Christian Anderson). Illustrations by Michael Hague. | Ages 6-8. | I would use this book for a unit on “how humans help each other.” Ariel wishes to become human to help others and feel connected. Children should draw or collect pictures of those who help them in the community: policemen, clergy, EMT workers, doctors, neighbors, etc. Ariel saves the prince, but he rejects her and she dies. So, the book should focus on helping, especially with younger children. |
This retelling is not the Disney version but the Andersen version of the traditional story. Ariel wants to leave the sea kingdom and become human. She falls in love with the prince and saves him. He rejects her for another, and on his wedding day, Ariel dies (as a human) and becomes an angel. The book may be used to teach about death and for this reason should not be used with children younger than six or seven unless the emphasis is on helping others as I have described. While the story illustrates love and true devotion, it does not have a good feminist message! |
Fantasy/Science Fiction |
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Fantasy/Science Fiction | Things That Are Most in the World |
Judi Barrett Illustrator:John Nickle |
Ages 4-8 | The class could draw impromptu things that are “the most.” They could let their imaginations fly inspired by the creative improbabilities in the book | This book does not really have a plot. It presents off-the-wall, random things that are amusingly “the most,” but impossible. An example would be: “The quietest thing in the world is a worm chewing peanut butter.” |
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Fantasy/Science Fiction |
SkippyjonJonesIn the Doghouse |
Judy Schachner | All Ages | A Kindergarten- Grade 2 class could act out “Skipito’s” elaborate dream with its many made-up, rhyming passages based upon fun combinations of Spanish and English words. | This book is about little mischievous cat who wants to socialize with a pack of Chihuahuas. He even draws Chihuahuas on the wall because he thinks that he is one. His mother is very distressed. “Skipito,” however, is dreaming of life among the tortillas and chimichangas. |
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Modern Fantasy | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | K-2 | Let the class “go wild!” Creatively, at least! Put out clay and construction paper and buttons and other plastic add-ons and let the children create their own wild things and then tell about what each wild thing does and what his/her personality is. | This wonderful story of Max’s adventure by boat to the land of the wild things is a perfect story. Max learns that even though he can rule another kingdom and take great adventures, home, mom, and his dog are best. The wild things are each unique and unusual. |
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Fantasy/Science Fiction |
Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo Out to Lunch |
Nancy Krulik Illustrators: John and Wendy |
Ages 4-8 | Younger children could design their own lunchroom menu with fun foods both real and imaginary. They could make food samples out of clay and even talk about foods that are both good and nutritional. | A sudden breeze causes Katie to switch places with the lunch lady at school and then gets her fired by starting a food fight. Katie feels bad about the situation so she starts a strike against the lunchroom and the nasty food until the lunch lady is rehired. |
Realistic Fiction |
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| Picture of Book | Genre | Title | Author/Illustrator/Copyright | Recommended Age/GradeLevel | Ideas for Classroom Use | Brief Description of the Book |
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Realistic Fiction | Tanya and Emily in a Dance for Two |
Patricia Lee Gauch Illustrator: Satomi Ichikawa |
Ages 4-8 | The class can create dance moves inspired by the animals they mimic. The book would also teach them the technical terms for many ballet moves. | Shy Tanya meets outgoing dancer Emily in ballet class. One day, Emily follows Tanya home through the park and discovers that Tanya learns her ballet moves from animals in the zoo: flamingoes, leopards, penguins, antelopes and giraffes. They become best friend and end up doing a pas de deux dressed as animals. |
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Realistic Fiction | I Wanna Iguana | Karen Kaufman Orloff | K-2 | Students could write a short, l illustrated letter to their parents describing an uncommon pet that they would like to have and how they would care for it. It could be a fantasy creature rather than a real one. | The book consists of a wonderfully funny and warm set of letters written between a mother and her small son about his desire to have an iguana for a pet. As he talks his mother into the iguana, he shows persistence and a great deal of knowledge about how to care for iguanas. |
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Realistic fiction | Flipped |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
Ages 9-12 | Students in the higher grades can write about misunderstandings or mismatches that they have had with their schoolmates. They could describe the qualities that they like least or best in a friend. | This book covers the lives of Juli Baker and her friend Bryce from fifth grade to eighth grade. Juli had been enamored of Bryce since second grade, but he had always seen her a geeky with her love chickens and sycamore trees. In Grade 8 their situation “flip” as Bryce begins to fall for her at the same time that she begins to rail about how shallow he is. |
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Realistic Fiction | Superfudge | Judy Blume | Ages 9-12 |
Prepare a creative unit on “How money works” and “How much things cost.” Have fourth-graders prepare an actual budget of their allowance and compare it to the costs that their parents pay to keep them. |
In this book, Fudge, a five-year-old is obsessed with money and with having enough to buy New York City or at least Toys R Us. Then his cousin of the same name arrives. The family calls him ”Mini” and he is just like an exaggerated version of “miser” Fudge. Fudge learns how hard it is for the family to deal with him by having to put up with his cousin. The story is told through the sensible, long-suffering eyes of Fudge’s twelve-year-old brother, Peter. It is a great source of cultural ideas about life in New York City. |
Historical Fiction |
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Historical fiction |
Diogenes and his Lantern |
Cyriel Verleyen Illustrator: Henry Branton |
Ages 7-11 | Students could use the illustrations in this book to draw scenes from daily life in ancient Greece and to imagine how it would have been to live without modern conveniences. | This book tells the story of Diogenes the Cynic who gave up wealth and power to live a worry-free life without worldly possessions. He founded the “Cynic” philosophy because he lived like his dog – with no home other than a barrel. Even Alexander the Great could not shake him from his love of a simple life without excessive material needs. His famous lantern was part of his quest for an honest man. |
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Historical Fiction | Aunt Hilarity’s Bustle |
Helen Ketteman
Illustrator: James Warhola |
Ages 4-8 | The students can design their own types of funny-looking clothing using construction paper and different art materials. The clothing styles in the book will show them how people dressed in the late 19th century. | A very poor woman sees a bustle in a magazine and tries to make one out of hay in a sack. Her papa disapproves, but she wears it to church where the fleas start coming out to the hay causing everyone in the congregation to itch. Then she makes a bustle out of her father’s old paint rags. This bustle catches fire at a Thanksgiving party causing the biggest food fight the town had ever seen. At Christmas, she tries to make another bustle out of chicken wire and patches of cloth. After a series of mishaps, her bustle ends of impaled on a Christmas tree, After this, she gives up bustles. |
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Historical Fiction |
Pancakes, Pancakes! |
Eric Carle | Ages 4-8 | Students could create simple recipes and describe how they would make them from “scratch” without modern convenience foods and appliances (no microwaves allowed!).. | This book is set on a farm back in the days when you had to make your pancakes from scratch. The little boy nil the wheat, milk the cow, churn the butter, make the chicken lay an egg and chop the wood for the stove before his mother can make his breakfast. |
Poetry Anthologies |
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Poetry | A Light in the Attic |
Shel Silverstein |
Ages 4-8 | Students could do a project called “So, What’s in Your Attic? They could make pictures and craft models of things that are old (maybe useless) but precious in their family. | In the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find his imaginary characters such as Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. Famous poems include: I"Spelling Bee," "Deaf Donald," "Nobody" and "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony." |
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Poetry Fantasy |
Your Favorite Seuss : A Baker's Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss |
Dr. Suess (Theodore Geisel) Molly Leach Designer |
Ages 3-8 | Students can draw and make a collage of their favorite characters from Dr. Suess or make up characters of their own. They can also identify pairs of rhyming words from a particular story and draw pictures that illustrate the rhymes. | Thirteen well-known stories from the master of words and rhythms for children. Dr. Suess makes children love words and dive in to the books to hear and see them over and over. Each classic story in this collection contains an introductory essay by a famous writer of children’s books. |
Informational |
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| Picture of Book | Genre | Title | Author/Illustrator/Copyright | Recommended Age/GradeLevel | Ideas for Classroom Use | Brief Description of the Book |
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Informational | Ladybugs |
Mia Posada |
Ages 4-8 | For an activity with this book, the children can make their own ladybug. They can change the colors just as different types of lady bugs are different colors. |
Ladybugs is a book that gives the reader the life of a ladybug. It explains the stages it goes through as it becomes a grown bug. The book is written in a kind of poetic way. It rhymes in an A/B fashion. |
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Informational | Big Bugs |
Seymour Simon |
Ages 4-8 | This book can be used to introduce bugs and how big some can get. An art project on making some kind of bug can be used in this case – or bugs of different sizes. | This book uses vivid photos of big bugs. It tells the reader the name of the bug, approximately how big it gets, what it eats and what eats it. Also, on most of the pages, it gives an interesting fact to go along with the bug. |
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Informational | Young Rosa Parks |
Anne Benjamin Illustrator: Ellen Beier |
Kindergarten- Second Grade |
This book can be used to teach about the civil rights movement or just about the strong life of Rosa Parks. An older, more advanced student could use this book to start a research project. | This book is about the life of Rosa Parks. It tells how she helped gain the right to be treated fairly and with respect when she refused to go to the back of the bus. |
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Informational | Young Jackie Robinson |
Edward Farrell
Illustrator: Dennis Stuart |
Kindergarten- Second Grade | This book can be used to introduce black heritage month or to celebrate African-American achievements in sports. Students could draw pictures of their favorite sports figures of all races and both genders. |
It tells about the life of Jackie Robinson. It tells about his struggle to reach and be accepted in the Major Leagues.
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