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By Lauren Terry

(Table Titles include: Caldecott Winners, Newbery Winners, Multicultural, Picture, Concept, Predictable, Traditional, Fantasy, Realistic, Historical, Poetry, and Informational)

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	Olivia	Ian Falconer	Ages 4-8	Allow students to create their own art work that shows their personality.	This is a story about a pig named Olivia. In this story, Olivia is shown doing many activities that she is good at. Olivia is so active, she wears everyone out, even herself, but at nap time she wants to do the complete opposite!
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Blueberries for Sal	Robert McCloskey	Baby-Preschool	Have students write about a time that they got lost from their mother.	A little girl named Sal just can't seem to pick as fast as she eats. Sal and her mother go off to pick blueberries for the winter at the same time as a mother bear and cub store up before winter. After curiosity gets the best of the both the little girl and cub bear, they trail the wrong mothers.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	King Bidgood's in the Bathtub	Audrey Wood/Don Wood	Ages 4-8/1st-4th	Students will listen to the story before they create a web brainstorm about ways to get King Bidgood out of the bathtub.	King Bidgood takes a bath one evening and decides he is not going to get out. The page continues to ask for help, but nothing seems to work. King Bidgood participates in the daily activities of a king, but while in the bathtub.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Hush! A Thai Lullaby	Minfong Ho/Holly Meade	Ages 4-8	Allow students to draw a picture of the animals in the story. Ask them to write about their drawing.	A mother has just put her baby to sleep. She must say "Hush!" to a continuation of noises around her. She eventually hushes the entire village and she falls asleep herself.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Song and Dance Man	Karen Ackerman/Stephen Gammell	Ages 3-7	Allow students to create their own dance routine in the drama area.	Grandpa goes up to the attic with the grandkids while rethinking the good old days. Gathering his surprises from the wooden trunk, he takes center stage. Entertaining his guest, all forget they are in the attic!
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Mirette on the High Wire	Emily Arnold McCully/1997	Ages 4-8	design a book jacket for the book	Mirette wants to be like the great Bellini who can walk across the high wire. However, Bellini has has developed a fear of walking across tight ropes. He used to do amazing things and then became afraid. He knows that this contradicts what he has told Mirette before, so he musters up the courage, and so does Mirette to walk across the high wire toward each other!
	Caldecott Medal Winner	Owl Moon	Jane Yoland/ John Schoenherr/1987	Ages 4-8	Have students write a story about an animal that they would like to see in person. Have them illustrate their story.	A girl and her father go owling on a moonlit winter night near the farm where they live. An air of expectancy builds as Pa imitates the Great Horned Owl's call once without answer, then again.
	Caldecott Medal Winner	The Little House	Virginia Lee Burton/1942	Ages 4-8	Draw a picture of the little house in the beginning, middle, and the end of the book. Students will discuss the effects of growth on the community.	A small country home watches the city lights in the distance. Each day the home watches as the city lights become closer. The county home is now in the middle of the city as steamrollers and semi trucks pass the home each day.

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	Philip Hall Likes Me. I Recken Maybe.	Bette Greene/Charles Lilly/ 1999	Ages 8-12	After reading the story as a class, have students write a letter to Beth.	Philip Hall is the best at everything. Beth thinks that he is only good at everything because she lets him beat her, She decides that something must be done to prove she is number one.
	Newbery Award	26 Fairmount Avenue	Tomie dePaola/1999	Ages 7-11	Have students write their own autobiography.	Tomie dePaola describes his childhood experiences while living in his home through comical memories.
	Newbery Award	Miss Hickory	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey/ Ruth Gannett/1977	Ages 4-8	Students will be able to create their own apple head doll with the help of an adult.	Miss Hickory is very worried about surviving the cold winter alone since her owner has left. She is just a doll with a hickory head. Something amazing happens towards the end of winter to change Miss Hickory.
	Newbery Award	Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	Ages 10-12	Encourage students to examine what freedom means to them and to examine what freedoms the Danes lost under Nazi occupation by writing an essay.	10 year old Annemarie and her best friend think about life before the war. The year is now 1943 and the Nazi soldiers are marching through town. Annemarie must go on a dangerous mission to save her best friend.
	Newbery Award	The Hundred Penny Box	Sharon Bell Mathis/Leo & Diane Dillon/1986	Ages 6-9	Have students go home and collect one penny dated with every year that they have been alive, just like Aunt Dew did in the story. Have them start brainstorming the important events in their lives that each penny will represent. The next day they will write in their journals each year they have been born with at least two sentences describing the event.	This is a story about a boy and his one hundred year old great great aunt.

Picture Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Ed Press Winner	The Kissing Hand	Audrey Penn/Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak	Ages 3-8/Pre-K -1st	Have students use red paint to make a hand print on a piece of paper. At the bottom of the hand print have students write about how they felt about coming to school for the first day.	Chester doesn't want to go to school because he doesn't want to leave his mother. She tells him that he will love school and will meet a lot of new friends. She lets him in on a family secret that will make school seem as cozy as home.
	Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature	How I Became a Pirate	Melinda Long/David Shannon	Preschool-8	Fill the sensory table with sand and allow students to create their own sandcastles.	Jeremy Jacob is on the beach with his preoccupied parents when a pirate ship lands nearby. Jeremy takes off for an adventure to help bury their treasure chest. Jeremy tries to teach the pirates to play soccer until his ball is eaten. A storm forces the ship back to shore where Jeremy solves the problem as to where to bury the treasures.
	The New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award	Granpa	John Burningham	Baby-Preschool	Have students to write about a fun memory they may have with their grandpa or father. Encourage students to illustrate their picture.	A little girl develops a wonderful relationship with her Granpa. They travel together, share stories, go fishing, and eat pretend ice cream. The scenes which relate very closely to real lives of children are real and fresh.
	A Blue Ribbon Book	Thank You, Brother Bear	Hans Baumann/Eric Carle	Ages 4-8/Pre-K-1st grade	Students will write a thank you letter to brother bear.	A boy's kindness to animals is repaid when they help him on his journey to find medicine for his ailing sister.
	Award Winner	Journey Home	Lawrence McKay, Jr/ Dom & Keunhee Lee/1998	Ages 4-8/2nd-4th grade	Students will write about a journey they have taken with a family member.	A woman who was abandoned as an infant at a Saigon orphanage travels from the U.S. back to Vietnam to look for her birth family. Her 10-year-old daughter, Mai, narrates the story as she accompanies her mother.

ABC/Counting/Concept Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	ABC Concept Book	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin, Jr. John Archambault/Lois Ehlert	Ages 2-6/Reading Level 4-8	Students will create their own palm tree and use the letters of their name to glue on the tree.	A rhyming book with the 26 letters of the alphabet. Each letter climbs up the coconut tree until they all tumble down. The 26 uppercase letters come and help their babies.
	Counting Concept Book	Over in the Meadow	Olive A. Wadsworth/Mary Maki Rae	Ages 2-5	Allow students to create their own meadow with the number of animals that match the number 1-10 that they choose to illustrate.	The book is a counting-out rhyme about the different animals living in the meadow. At the same time, the book introduces the numbers 1-10.
	Counting Concept Book	Ten in the Bed	Penny Dale	Ages 4-8	Have students re-enact each sequence of the rhyme.	One child, one bed, and nine animals are lying in the bed when the little one says "roll over, roll over." Everyone rolls over until there is only one in the bed and he says "Good night."

Predictable Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Predictable	The Grouchy Ladybug	Eric Carle	4-8 year olds	Create a ladybug using egg cartons.	The grouchy ladybug looks for any one to fight, no matter how big. From sunrise to sun set, the ladybug tries to find someone to fight, until he finally meets its match.
	Predictable	If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	Laura Joffe Numeroff/ Felicia Bond	4-8 year olds	Use this book for a math activity. Create a graph to show students' favorite cookies.	A mouse finds his way into a home of a young boy. He ask for a cookie and then wants some milk, but he can't drink the milk without a straw. This is a good story for teaching cause and effect.

Traditional Literature Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional	Johnny Appleseed	A tall tale retold and illustrated by Steven Kellogg	All ages	Use apples for printmaking.	Johnny Appleseed is reintroduced in this book. The illustrations illuminate a man that all schoolchildren will know.
	Traditional	The Legend of the Poinsettia	retold and illustrated by Tomie dePoala Paola/1994	Ages 4-8	Create poinsettias with red and green paper. Yellow dots for the center.	A legend from Mexico in which a little girl is proud to help her mother weave a new blanket for the Baby Jesus. Lucinda's mother takes ill, Lucinda tangles the yarn and is unable to complete the blanket. A mysterious old woman appears from the shadows and tells Lucinda, "Any gift is beautiful because it is given."
	Traditional	Three Little Pigs	Carl Sommer/Greg Budwine/2001	Ages 5-9	After reading the story, use chart paper to write student responses to what their favorite part of the book was.	Three little pigs leave their home to find their fortune but they have to deal with the threatening wolf.
	Traditional	Rumpelstilskin	Paul O. Zelinsky/1986	Ages 4-8/1st-3rd	Give students parts for each character. Act the story out rather than reading it aloud.	A new twist on an old story. After the queen guesses his name she gets to keep her baby while Rumpelstiltskin flies away on his spoon.
	Traditional	Jack and the Beanstalk	Retold and Illustrated by Steven Kellogg/1999	Ages 4-8	Use this story as an introduction to plants and seeds. Have students grow there own bean stalk. Once the stalk is about 6 to9 inches have students draw a small picture of themselves to tape on the stalk.	Jack climbs the beanstalk to a castle in the clouds. This traditional story is recreated beautifully by Kellogg.

Fantasy/ Science Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fantasy	Heckedy Peg	Audrey Wood/ Don Wood	Kindergarten-3rd Grade	Illustrate their writings about what food they would be turned in to.	A poor mother of seven children, who's names are for each day of the week, goes to the market and says she will return with gifts for each child. The children disobey their mother and allow Heckedy peg to come in their home. The children are turned into food and their mother must correctly identify each of her children so they can be turned back into humans.
	Fantasy	The Turkey That Crowed	Eva Johns Haynes/ Kelly Paige Bozarth	4-8 year olds	Use their names to create an acrostic poem. Use the letters to describe things that they do well.	Tommy the turkey crowed like a rooster. he is made fun of and does not have any friends on the farm. He figures out with the help of father and mother rabbit that there is nothing wrong with him, he is just very special.
	Fantasy	Tangle Fairies	Steve Tiller/ Robert Cremeans	4-8 year olds	Have students use their imaginations to create a story about the fairies that come into their room at night.	Children fall asleep at night with neatly combed hair, but in the morning they have a head full of tangles. The tangle fairies hide under the mattresses until you fall asleep, then they come out and wreak your hair throughout the night.
	Fantasy	Connected at the Heart	Steve Tiller/ Robert Creameans	9-12 year olds	Have students illustrate their favorite part of the story. Encourage students to explain why this was their favorite part.	A story of emotion and lots of familiar feelings. A newborns story of being welcomed into the world. This book puts an interesting view on ideas.

Realistic Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	Thunder Cake	Patricia Polacco	Ages 4-8	Introduce measurements and following directions using this book. Bake a thundercake using the recipe in the back of the book.	A grandmother helps her granddaughter overcome the fear of thunderstorms by baking a cake.
	Realistic Fiction	Strawberry Girl	Lois Lenski/1995	Ages 10-14	Have students participate in Reader's theater.	10 year old Birdie has just moved to Florida and she is so excited about picking strawberries. They have not even planted them yet, but with the obstacles they must overcome create adventure.
	Realistic Fiction	Sounder	William H. Armstrong/James Barkley/1972	Ages 9-12	Have students write about a pet that might have been special to them like Sounder. Have them write about what kind of relationship they had with that pet.	A story about a boy and his dog. The African American Sharecropper is arrested and leaves the dog to be taken care of by his family. Sounder is in an accident and the young boy must work to take care of his family.
	Realistic Fiction	Caddie Woodlawn	Carol Ryrie Brink/Kate Seedy/1973	Ages 8-12	Have students draw pictures of the characters using the descriptions in the book. Students need to write what character they are illustrating as well.	Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father. She is a tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin.

Historical Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction	The Starving Time	Patricia Hermes/2002	Ages 7-10	Allow students to come up with a secret code to write in the journals just as Elizabeth did in her diary	Lizzie faces challenges in the new colony.
	Historical Fiction	Johnny Tremain	Esther Forbes/1987	Ages 9-12	Begin by reading the story aloud as a whole group. Have students predict what they think will happen next after each chapter once they have read independently.	This is a story filled with danger and excitement. Johnny Tremain tells of the rough, passionate times in Boston just before the Revolutionary War.
	Historical Fiction	Little Town on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder/Garth Williams/2004	Ages 8-12	Students will be able to use the concept of role playing with this story. Students should get into groups and play the roles of the chapter they are assigned by the teacher.	Laura has a new man in her life as she awaits the approaching summer days after the long, cold winter.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry Anthology	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein/1974	Ages 9-12	Allow students to write their own poem and illustrate their writings.	This book is full of poems written and illustrated by She Silverstein. She writes funny, sad, and even gross poems for all ages.
	Poetry Anthology	Read A Rhyme, Write A Rhyme	Jack Prelutsky/Meilo So/2005	Ages 4-8/Grade 2-4	Have students create their own poem from using the guidelines in the book.	This is a collection of short poems in which also teaches children the technique in writing the each type of poem.

Multicultural books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Multicultural	What's Wrong with Timmy?	Maria Shriver/ Sandra Speidel	Grade 3-5	Write in their journals about how they would be a friend to Timmy.	Kate meets a special boy named Timmy. After talking to her mother, Kate sees that Timmy is just like her in many ways. Kate and Timmy become friends and begin making play dates.
	Multicultural	Pink and Say	Patricia Polacco	Grade 4 and up	Allow students to visit civil war websites in groups. Encourage students to find information that they did not know before.	This picture book is set in civil war times. This is the most serious book Patricia Polacco has written.
	Multicultural	John Philip Duck	Patricia Polacco	K-4th grade	Have students listen to the story being read aloud. Allow children to draw a picture of the Peabody Hotel and the ducks on one side of a post card along with a message about the ducks. On the other side of the postcard, write an address.	This book tells the story of an African American boy who trains a wild duck to perform to John Philip Sousa marches. He convinces his father to let the duck stay at the hotel while they work during the day.
	Multicultural	Uncle Jed's Barbershop	Margaree King Mitchell/James E. Ransome/ 1993	Preschool-3rd Grade	After reading the book aloud, students will be instructed to have an interview with someone with a job that they are interested in.	At 79 years old, Uncle Jed, after a lifetime of obstacles , finally realizes his dream of owning a barbershop.
	Multicultural	Peek!	Minfong Ho/Holly Meade	Preschool-2nd Grade	Students will be able to illustrate their favorite part of the book using a variety of art materials. Students will write about their illustration as well.	A father and daughter play hide-and-go-seek in the jungle with the animals taking an active part in the story as well.

Informational Books/Biography/Autobiography

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Idea for classroom use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational Books	America A Patriotic Primer	Lynne Cheney/Robin preiss Glasser	All ages/ 4-8	Students will be able to write about three facts they did not know before the book was read. Students will tell why the facts they chose were interesting.	America is an alphabet book with information about American history. This is a colorful book with very busy spreads which elaborate the celebrations of the nation.
	Informational Book	P is for Peach	Carole Crane/ Mark Braught	Ages 4-8/3rd grade	After reading the book, students will create an alpha box for themselves so they are able to summarize the book.	From A to Z, this book gives Georgia facts associated with each letter. Children will gain a better understanding of the alphabet as well as Georgia information.
	Informational Book	Science Verse	Jon Sciezna and Lane Smith	Grade 2-5	As a class, students will be able to participate in a science experiment.	This book uses rhymes to introduce science topics and keep children engaged in the story.
	Informational Book	I is for Idea	Marcia Schonberg/Kandy Radzinski	Grade 3-7	Students will be able to create their own idea individually. They will describe their idea in writing along with an illustration.	Each letter of the alphabet is used to describe an invention over the years. The book also gives history along with each invention.

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