Electronic Reading File by Michael Willis

Electronic Reading File
by Michael Willis

Bold, Hyphonated, Underlined titles marks chapter books
Bold, Hyphenated Author/Illuastrator/Copyright section marks Author Study

8 Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book/Modern Fantasy	HEY, AL	Arther Yorinks/ Richard Egielski	3-4	Let the children draw the colorful animals and talk about whey they like them.	Al and his dog, Eddie, go to an island in the sky because they don't like the place they live.
	Traditional Fantasy	The Funny Little Woman	Arlene Mosel/ Blair Lent/ 1972	5-8	Let the children make something or draw something of Japanese culture.	The woman's rice cake she was making fell down a crack. She went after it and starting making rice for the Oni.
	Caldecott	Ox-Cart Man	Donald Hall/Barbara Cooney/1980	5-7	Make little wagons in class and dress up like people dressed in the past.	A man goes into town with his ox-cart and sells things so he can do the same thing the next year.
	Picture Book/Modern Fantasy	Where The Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak/1963	5-7	Have the children act out the wild things	Max puts on a fox suit and travels around to Where The Wild Things Are
	Picture Book/Modern Fantasy	Tuesday	David Wiesner/1991	5-7	Let the children play leap frog with one another	The moon comes out one Thursday night along with a bunch of bullfrogs.
	Picture Book/Caldecott	Grandfather's Journey	Allen Say/1993	4-8	Let the children dress up from a culture of a place that their granfather or grandmother has been to	A little boy tells of his Grandfather's journey to America and how he likes America and Japan.
	Caldecott/Picture Book	The Snowy Day	Ezra Jack Keats/1962	4-8	The children can make snowmen out of cotton balls on construction paper.	Peter plays in the snow one day and then brings his friend to with him to play in the snow the next day.
	Caldecott/Picture Book	May I Bring A Friend?	Beatrice Schenk de Regniers/Beni Montresor/1965	4-8	The students have a show and tell day and they can bring something that is their friend or means a lot to them.	The King and Queen invite a boy and his friend(s) everyday to their house to eat or have tea.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction/Newbery	The Westing Game	Ellen Raskin/1978	ages 12-up	Set up a mystery in the classroom and let the children figure it out.	Mr. Westing dies and one of his relatives did it. The book is a mystery to figure it out.
	Realistic Fiction/Newbery	It's Like This, Cat	Emily Neville/Emil Weiss/1963	ages 9-12	Have children talk about their pets if they have any and share a story about the pet.	Dave Mitchell gets a cat and the cat shows a whole new life to Dave
	Fiction/Newbery	The Whipping Boy	Sid Fleischman/Peter Sis/1986	ages 9-12	Let the children be in groups and act out parts of the book.	Prince Brat takes Jemmy, his whipping boy, on his escape from the castle.
	Realistic Fiction/Newbery	Dear Mr. Henshaw	Beverly Cleary/ Paul O. Zelinsky/ 1983	ages 9-12	The children can write letters to their favorite author.	Leigh Botts writes letters to his favorite author and then starts a diary.
	Realistic Fiction/Newbery	Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis/1999	ages 8-12	The children can discuss what they think it would be like to be homeless and not know who their father is.	Bud leaves 'the home' and goes on a mission to find his father

5 Multicultural

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Illustrated Picture Book	Tree of Cranes	Allen Say/1991	4-8	Let the children make paper cranes	A little boy thinks his mom is mad at him and she surprises him with a tree filled with cranes.
	Multicultural/Realistic Fiction/Picture Book	Nessa's Fish	Nancy Luenn/Neil Waldman/1990	4-8	The children can practice talking to bears and wolves just like Nessa did.	Nessa, the Eskimo, guards the fish her grandmother and she caught because her grandmother got sick.
	Multicultural/Informational/ Picture Book	All Kinds of Children	Norma Simon/Diane Paterson/1999	4-8	Let the children dress up as another culture.	This book tells us what all children have in common.
	Mulitcultural/Informational/ Picture Book	PEOPLE	Peter Spier/1980	4-8	The children can choose an activity they do by themselves to show they are unique.	This book explains to us how everyone is unique in their own way.
	Multicultural/Picture Book	The Emperor and The Kite	Jane Yolen/Ed Young/1967	4-8	The students can make paper kites depicting something from another culture.	A small girl, Djeow, wants to be loved by here Dad, the Emperor.

4 Informational books/biography/autobiography

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational/ Picture Book	Feathers for Lunch	Lois ehlert/1990	4-8	Let children make the noises of the birds described in the book.	A cat goes out hunting birds for lunch but instead ends up with a mouthful of feathers.
	Informational/Biography	Daniel Boone, boy hunter	Augusta Stevenson/Robert Doremus/1943	7-12	The students can discuss what the people wore back then and they can dress up one day for school.	Daniel Boone grows up learning to hunt and survive and also raise a family as he gets older.
	Informational/Poetry	OUR PRESIDENTS	Richard Armour/Leonard Everett/1964	8-10	The students would pick a recent President or an old one and write a poem or a short story about them.	This book has funny, interesting poems about every President up to Lyndon B. Johnson.
	Informational/Picture Book	Pond Life (Cycles of Life)	David Stewart and Mark Bergin/Carolyn Scrace/	4-8	Take the children on a field trip to a pond and focus on the things the book talks about.	Talks about what lives in a pond and how it survives.

2 Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein/1974	4-10	Students can pick out their favorite poem and write a poem similar to that one.	A collection of funny, interesting poems
	Poetry	A Light in the Attic	Shel Silverstein/1981	4-10	Pick out the poem "Superstitious" and talk about superstitions and let the class discuss them and if they believe in them.	Another anthology of funny, interesting poems.

2 Predictable Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Predictable/Picture Book	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?	Bill Martin, Jr./ Eric Carle/ 1967	toddler - kindergarten	Write the story over but with different animals and let the children draw the new animals	Different animals are looking at different animals
	Predictable/Picture Book	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle/1969	ages 2-4	Let the children make a picture using tissue paper.	The story of a caterpillar who eats and goes into a cocoon.

5 Picture Books With Awards

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book/Coretta Scott King Award	Africa Dream	Eloise Greenfield/Carol Byard/1977	4-8	Have the children discuss where they would like to go and visit and what they would like to see	A little girl tells us her dream of going to Africa one night.
	Picture Book/ Modern Fantasy/Coretta Scott King Award	Tar Beach	Faith Ringgold/1991	2-5	Let the children make little wings and talk about whether or not they would like to fly or not	Cassie Louise Lightfoot flys around her city.
	Picture Book/Caldecott Honor	Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!	Mo Willems/2004	2-5	Let the children act out the book after they make finger puppets for the pigeons.	We learn why a pigeon should not drive a bus.
	Picture Book/Caldecott Honor	The Village of Round and Square Houses	Ann Grifalconi/1986	4-8	Have the children dress up as the characters in the book would.	This book is about a little girl's story growing up in West Africa.
	Picture Book/Caldecott Honor	Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale	Mo Willems/2004	2-5	Have the children bring with them their favorite teddy bear or blanket, etc.	Trixie loses her teddy bear at the local laundromat

3 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 Book/Picture Book	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr./Lois Ehlert/1989	4-8	Let the children make boom boom bottles	A tells B who tells C he can beat him to the top of the coconut tree.
	Counting/Picture Book	Count and See	Tane Hoban/1972	4-7	The students can count m&m's and when they get all the numbers correct, they can eat them	A book with real pictures depicting each number.
	Concept/Picture Book	How Much Is A Million?	David M. Schwartz/Steven Kellogg/1985	4-8	The teacher could fill a goldfish bowl with marbles or something like them, maybe even food, and the students could guess how many are in there. Whoever comes closest can have what's in the bowl.	This book emphasizes how much a million, billion, and trillion is.

5 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 Fantasy	Goldilocks and The Three Bears	James Marshall/1988	4-8	Let the children draw a scene from the book	Goldilocks goes to the bear's house and makes herself at home.
	Traditional Fantasy	The Ugly Duckling	Jerry Pinkney/1999	4-8	Let the children draw a picture of the duck as a swan on the lake	A little duck runs away from home to find himself a better place.
	Trickster/Traditional Fantasy	The Story of the Three Little Pigs	William Stobbs/1965	4-8	Let the children build little houses and see if they can blow them down	The wolf tricks two pigs and tries to trick the other one.
	Traditional Fantasy/Trickster	Little Red Riding Hood	Grimm Brothers/Trina Schart Hyman/1983	4-8	Let the children act out a play of the book.	Little Red Riding Hood is tricked by the wolf.
	Traditional Fantasy/Mulitcultural	Stone Soup	Jon J. Muth/2003	5-8	The teacher could bring a pot to class along with fake foods and the students pick what they would put in their own stone soup.	Three Monks make stone soup and re-unite the village.

4 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
	Beast Tale/Fantasy	Charlotte's Web	E.B. White/Garth Williams/1952	9-12	Let the children dress up as one of the characters and act out a part in the story	Wilbur, the pig, becomes friends with Charlotte, the spider.
	Modern Fantasy/	Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back	Shel Silverstein/1963	6-10	Have the children pretend they are doing one of the things Lafacadio did in the book.	Lafcadio, the lion, shoots a hunter and becomes popular.
	Modern Fantasy/Picture Book	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein/1964	4-8	Give the children little trees or plants and let them plant them in class.	A tree gives parts of himself to a boy to make the boy happy.
	Modern Fantasy/Picture Book	Who Wants A Cheap Rhinoceros?	Shel Silverstein/1964	4-8	Let the children tell the class what they would do with a rhinoceros if they had one	A boy tells us special things his pet rhinoceros can do.

3 Historical Fiction

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction	The Call of the Wild (new edition)	Jack London/2003	9-12	The children could do a word find to learn vocabulary.	This book tells of a pet dog who is sold and is sent to Alaska to be a sled dog.
	Historical Fiction	The California Gold Rush	May McNeer/Lynd Ward/1950	9-12	The students can go on a rush for gold in the classroom. Things will be hidden around the room and then a lot in a certain area and the students can see how crowded it gets.	A nugget of gold is found and that starts a gold rush in 1848. People from all over come to California to try and get rich.
	Historical Fiction	Old Yeller	Fred Gipson/1955	9-12	Let the students watch the movie version and look for differences. The students can also tell of a sad time they've had with their pet.	A tale of a boy who becomes the man of the house while his father is gone and also becomes to love this new stray dog.

4 Realistic Fiction

Picture of Book		Title	Author/Illustrator/Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction/	Freckle Juice	Judy Blume/1977	6-9	Let the children make their own secret freckle juice and try it on themselves.	A boy, Nicky, wants freckles like Andrew so he comes up with a plan.
	Realistic Fiction/Picture Book	Just A Dream	Chris Van Allsburg/1990	4-8	As the students to draw a dream they had recently or either what they think the future will be like.	Walter, a little boy, dreams of the future and visits many places.
	Realistic Fiction/Picture Book	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst/Ray Cruz/1972	5-8	The students can say what they think is a bad day, and the teacher writes them down on chart paper. The students they say if any of these have happened to them.	A boy tells us about his bad day and what all happens to him.
	Realistic Fiction/Picture Book	River Day	Jane B. Mason/Henri Sorenson/1994	4-8	The students could fingerpaint a scene from the book.	Alex and her Grandfather go on a canoe ride down a river.