Julie's Electronic Reading File

Electronic Reading File
by Julie Smith

Chapter books- in blue font

Leo Lionni books- in red font

Eve Bunting books- in green font

Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Kitten’s First Full Moon	Kevin Henkes 2004	Ages 3-5	With construction paper, cotton balls, and markers, have the children create the kitten in the book.	This book is about a kitten who mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk. It follows the kitten on her journey as she tries to drink from the big milk bowl in the sky.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Mordicai Gerstein 2004	Ages 5-8	Have the children choreograph their own make believe tightrope performance. Can be done in groups or individually. Allow them to present the dance to the class.	A French aerialist, Philippe Petit, who put a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center. He walks, dances, and does tricks high in the sky.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	My Friend Rabbit	Eric Rohmann 2002	Ages 4-8	Have the children paint a picture of his or her best friend and present it to the class.	This book is about a mouse and a rabbit that are best friends. Rabbit gets into trouble no matter where he goes and what he does.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback 1999	Ages 4-8	Put the children in groups. Have the children as a group think of and discuss something that can be reused like the overcoat in the story.	Joseph has an old overcoat he doesn’t want to get rid of. He keeps making it smaller and smaller pieces of clothing, like a jacket and scarf.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Snowflake Bently	Jacqueline Briggs Martin/Mary Azarian 1998	Ages 5-8	Let the children design and create their own unique snowflake out of white computer paper.	Wilson Bentley, a self-taught scientist, who photographs individual snowflakes so he can study their unique shapes.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Officer Buckle and Gloria	Peggy Rathmann 1995	Ages 5-8	Divide the children into groups and have them create a larger poster board with different safety tips they should always follow on it. Allow them to decorate it any way they choose.	The children in an elementary school always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips. He gets a police dog named Gloria to accompany him when he gives his safety speeches.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Smoky Night	Eve Bunting/David Diaz 1999	Ages 5-8	The children will create a self-portrait and write a narrative describing their features. This will illustrate that everyone is different in his or her own way.	Riots break out in the streets of a neighborhood. A young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others regardless of their background or nationality.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg 1985	Ages 5-8	The children will make sock snowmen. http://preschoolrainbow. Org/preschool-winter.htm	One Christmas Eve after everyone was asleep, a boy boards the mysterious Polar Express bound for the North Pole. Santa offers the boy any gift he desires.

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 Award Winner	Holes	Louis Sachar 2000	Ages 9-12	Create literature circles. Assign different roles to different children. Make one person in charge of a summary, illustrator, word finder, etc.	Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. He has been sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes that are five feet wide and five feet deep.
	Newbery Award Winner	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry 1998	Ages 10-14	Create literature circles. Assign different roles to different children. Make one person in charge of a summary, illustrator, word finder, etc.	In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, a ten-year-old girl learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
	Newbery Award Winner	Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli/ 1991	Ages 8-11	Illustrate pages of their favorite parts of the book.	Follow a boy on his journey repair the relationships in the lives of people he meets.
	Newbery Award Winner	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred D. Taylor/ 1999	Ages 9-11	In small groups, the children will research different aspects of the Great Depression, including how it affected the lives of Americans. Then will present/ Discuss with the class what was learned. SS5H5	This book is about a young African American girl growing up in the south during the Great Depression.
	Newbery Award Winner	The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman/ Peter Sis 2003	Ages 8-12	Have the children write a story about how they took the blame for a friend.	A young orphan boy is taken from the streets to become the whipping boy for the prince. It is forbidden to spank/whip the heir to the throne. Fine out why the prince and boy have to trade places.

Other Award Winning Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Caldecott Honor Award	Swimmy	Leo Lionni 1973	Ages 4-8	Create an ocean scene using tissue paper and watercolor. Paint the tissue paper, cut out ocean creatures and paste it on a construction paper.	A little black fish lives in a school of red fish until they are all eaten. He finds another school of red fish and they work together to save themselves.
	Newbery Honor Award	Stargirl	Jerry Spinelli 2000	Young Adult	Divide the children into groups and have them perform their favorite scene from the book. Write a narrative that goes along with the scene.	After fifteen years of home schooling, a girl by the name Stargirl Caraway goes to high school. She is bold and out spoken unlike all of the other students.
	Caldecott Honor Award	There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly	Simms Taback/ Pam Adams 1997	Ages 4-8	Let the children make puppets to go along with the old lady and animals in the book and then perform a puppet show to read along with the book.	The old lady swallows a fly, spider, bird, and more. This book has die-cut outs; the children can actually see the animals inside her stomach.
	Caldecott Honor Award	Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse	Leo Lionni 1974	Ages 4-8	Discuss items that are living and non-living with the classroom. Have the children go around the classroom and sort items that are living/non-living. SKL1.	Alexander is a real mouse; however, he wants to be a toy mouse like his friend. Read to find out why Alexander realizes the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
	Caldecott Honor Award	Frederick	Leo Lionni 1973	Ages 4-8	Using black construction paper and colored chalk, have the children draw a picture of a daydream.	Instead of helping the other mice gather food for winter, Frederick does nothing but daydream all summer. When winter comes, he entertains the other mice.

Multicultural

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Multicultural	Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale	Maurice Sendak 1963	Ages 4-8	Have the children write their own version of a Cinderella Story and share with the class.	Mufaro has two beautiful daughters- one good, one bad. They are sent to go before the King, so he can choose a wife.
	Multicultural	Legend of the Indian Paintbrush	Tomie de Paola 1996	Ages 4-8	Children will paint a story on a leather bag (brown paper bag).This activity is for a little older children, but young children could do it just as easily. http://www.eduref.org/ Virtua/Lessons/Social_ Studies/US_History/ USH0048.html	Little Gopher dreams to become a great artist to paint the stories and legends of his tribe.
	Multicultural	Amazing Grace	Mary Hoffman/ Caroline Binch 1991	Ages 4-8	The illustrations in the book are done with watercolor. Have the children paint, with watercolor, their favorite part of the book.	Grace loves stories of all sorts. There is a Peter Pan Play at her school and she wants to be the main star.
	Multicultural	How Many Days to America?	Eve Bunting/ Beth Peck 1988	Ages 4-8	Discuss Thanksgiving with the children. Let the children create turkeys by painting their hands and stamping them. Add face of turkey to thumb print.	This is a Thanksgiving story. A family and other refugees are forced to leave their home on a Caribbean Island and go to America on a small fishing boat. When they arrive, it’s Thanksgiving.
	Multicultural	The Fortune Tellers	Lloyd Alexander/Trina Schart Hyman 1997	Ages 3-8	Half way through reading the book, have the children draw their predictions of what fortunes the carpenter will have. ELA2R4	A young man goes to a fortuneteller to get predictions.

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
	Concept Book	Color Zoo	Lois Ehlert 1997	Preschool	Using colorful construction paper, have the children tear or cut out different shapes and paste them together to create their favorite ZOO animal..	This book has die-cut pages and puts together different colors and shapes to make different faces of zoo animals.
	Counting book	Chicka Chicka 1 2 3	Bill Martin/ Michael Sampson/ Michael R. Sampson/ Lois Ehlert 2004	Ages 3-7	Divide the children into groups. Each group will have 10 numbers they will think of a jingle-rhyme song for. 1-10, 10-20 and so forth. Go around the classroom and let each group sing their jingle.	The numbers one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree. The book is written in a cute rhyme.
	Counting book	Spot counts from 1 to 10	Eric Hill 1989	Preschool	Have the students count out loud with you as you read the book.	Spot the dog counts to ten.

Predictable Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Predictable	Love You Forever	Robert N. Munsch/ Sheila McGraw 2000	Ages 5-6	After reading the book with the class, Read the book a second time and have the children read the book aloud with you, since it’s a predictable book.	A woman sings to her son: “I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be."
	Predictable	Very Busy Spider	Eric Carle 1984	Ages 2-5	Using black construction paper and white yarn, have the children glue their own spider web.	A spider got so busy working on her web that she did not have time to play with her friends. However, she spun a beautiful surprise in the end.

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	Flower Garden	Eve Bunting/ Kathryn Hewitt 1994	Ages 3-7	Let the children paint their own flowerpot and plant their own flower garden.	A little girl puts together a flower garden as a surprise for her mother’s birthday. Follow her and the flower gardens journey from the store to the windowpane.
	Realistic Fiction	My Ol’ Man	Patricia Polacco 1995	Ages 5-8	Read the book aloud to the children. Have the children orally discuss to the class about their favorite summer memory. ELA1R6	A girl tells about her memories of the summer she spent in Michigan with her father and a magic rock.
	Realistic Fiction	Knuffle Bunny	Mo Willems 2004	Ages 4-8	Bring in a puppet to use while reading the book. Have the children bring in a favorite stuffed animal.	Daddy and baby spend the day together running errands. Daddy makes a mistake by not noticing when baby leaves her stuffed animal.
	Realistic Fiction	Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 2000	Ages 8-12	Have the children draw a picture of their pet. If they do not have a pet, create one.	A little boy comes across a beagle and takes it in as his own. The real owner of the dog is abusive to the dog. The boy hides and protects the dog.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book

Genre

Title

Author/
Illustrator/
Copyright

Recommended Age/Grade
Level

Ideas for Classroom Use

Brief Description of the Book

Poetry

Lilies on the Moon

Robert W. Kurkela/Cassidy S. Kurkela 2005

Ages 5-8

Have the children write their own poems about what it’s like to be a child and have them decorate around it with finger paints.

A collection of poetry written by an adult; however, from a child’s perspective. The poems are about the trials and tribulations of being a child. The illustrations in the book are by the author’s daughter.

Book Cover

Poetry

Awful Ogre’s Awful Day

Jack Prelutsky/Paul O. Zelinsky 2001

Ages 6-9

Let the children write their own poem about their daily routine in chronological order. Have the children pick their favorite part of their routine and draw a picture with a lot of details.

ELA4W1

There are eighteen poems in this book. Awful Ogre describes his awful daily routines with gruesome detail.

Holes

Maniac Magee

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

The Whipping Boy

Swimmy

Shiloh