Electronic Reading File by Rontee Barnes

Electronic Reading File
By Rontee Barnes Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fantasy	Hey,AL	Arthur Yorinks/ Richard Egielski	1st-3rd	Draw a picture of Al when he was part Bird and part man	Book about a man and his dog that is take away by big bird to another land where everything was easy, but they notice that they are turning into bird them selves and long to go home.
	Traditional	The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses	Paul Goble	1st-3rd	Make pictures of horses with pastel chalk	Book about a girl that disappeared one day when and lived with the wild horses. She was believed to have turned into a horse herself when she did not return to the village as she did yearly.
	Realistic Fiction	The Big Snow	Berta and Elmer Hader	1st-2nd	Make a snowflake out of construction paper	Book about the animals getting ready for winter and how they have prepared for it.
	Fantasy	Make Way for Ducklings	Robert McCloskey	K-1st	Have students make a duck from cut out body parts of the duck.	Book about the mallard ducks who are looking for a place to raise their ducklings. Tells of the journey of how they came to chose the public garden.
	Realistic fiction	Snowflake Bentley	Jacqueline Briggs Martin? Mary Azarian	1st-2nd	Make a snow flake out of construction paper and scissors	Story about Wilson Bentley who loved to take pictures of snowflakes and capture the unique beauty he saw in each of them.
	Picture book	Tuesday	David Weisner	K-1st	Construct a picture of an activity that they did on Tuesday	A picture book about animal and a neighborhood and everything is suppose to have happened on a Tuesday. Pictures include animals such as a turtle and frogs.
	Picture book	Black and White	David MaCaulay	1st-3rd	Let the kids write a short story about what they felt the pictures were saying	A book that has many stories going on at one time. You have to look at both sets of pictures and they tell two different stories. One is about family problems and the other is about a train ride.
	Picture Book	There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly	Sims Taback	K- 1st	Have a big poster board with the old ladies face and her mouth wide open and the children can construct items to place in her mouth.	A story about a old lady that eats some crazy things. She starts off eating a fly and ends up eating a horse.

Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic fiction	Onion John Chapter Book	John Krumgold/ Symeon Shimin	4th-5th	Write short story of an uniques friend they may have.	Andy becomes friends with a man named John. His dad feels as if they should help John because he does not live to the standards of the townspeople, but their insisting on helping John, almost destroys the special friendship that the Andy and John have.
	Realistic Fiction	Sarah, Plain and Tall Chapter Book	Patricia MacLachlan	3rd-5th	Make own wants ads and the class will make a group newsletter with the ads in it.	This book tells the story of a family that loses their mother. The husband writes in the newspaper ad that he is looking for a wife. He receives a response from a lady named Sarah and this begins the formation of a relationship between Sarah and the family.
	Realistic Fiction	Strawberry Girl Chapter Book	Lois Lenski	2nd-4th	Draw a scene from the book that they remember most.	Books depicts a story about a girl named Birdie Boyer. Her family survives by raising strawberries. It tells of their hardships and Birdie's desire to learn more and be more.
	Realistic Fiction	Call it Courage Chapter Book	Armstrong Sperry	2nd-5th	Write a narrative about an instance when you were scared and found the courage.	Story about a boy named Mafatu who was scared of the sea because of an experience that occurred that took his mom's life. He decides that he has to face his fears.
	Realistic Fiction	Dear Mr. Henshaw Chapter Book	Beverly Cleary	3rd-5th	Keep a dated journal for a week.	Story about a young boy named Leigh who is in a new place and going through a lot of changes due to his parents divorce. He also has trouble at school with a lunch box thief. His only friend is the school custodian and Mr. Henshaw in which he corresponds to through letters.

Other Picture Award Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book	Snow Music	Lynne Pae Perkins ( Bccb)	K-1st	With small water bottles makes little snow domes, when you shake it looks like snow.	A picture book with limited text that gives different portraits of the way a winter days looks.
	Fantasy	Hazel Nutt: The Mad Scientist	Davis Elliott/True Kelly (Golden Duck Award)	Pre-K - 1st	Let the children create their own silly creature	A book about a professor that creates monster creatures but the people of the town do not like the thought of the creatures being in their town.
	Fantasy	In the Rain With Baby Duck	Amy Hest/Jill Barton ( Boston Globe Horn Award)	Pre- K -K	Draw pictures of items that you would use on a rainy day	Story about a Baby Duck that does not like the rain and has to walk over to his grandpa's house for pancake Sunday. Grandpa's sees that he doesn't like the rain and finds a remedy to help baby duck.
	Fantasy	Ollie	Olivier Dunvier (Bccb)	Pre-k - K	Make an egg with Ollie coming out of it. To let the children guess how he would look.	Story about two gooslings named Gossie and Gertie who are waiting for Ollie to come out of his shell. the two are tired of waiting so they come up with a plan to get him to come out.
	Fantasy	Otto's Trunk	Sandy Turner	Pre-k - K	Using an elephants head on dido sheet, let the children draw the trunk that they think Otto should have.	Story about an elephant that did not like his small trunk and his herd made fun of him. He tried different things to make his trunk grow. In the end he came to accept his trunk as it was.

A B C/ Counting/ Concept Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Counting	1 2 3, In the Sea	Marilyn La Penta/ Sonia Canals	Pre K- K	Make a chart representing numbers 1-5 with different sea creatures for each number set.	A book about counting different sea creatures. The beads are in the shape of the sea creatures so children can count along.
	Concept	Purple, All Around Us	Sarah L. Schuette	Pre-K - K	Make a chart representing numbers 1-5 with different sea creatures for each number set.	A book about different everyday objects that we see that is the color purple.
	Concept	Spot's Big Book of Colors, Shapes, and Numbers	Eric Hill	Pre-K - K	Pick out different objects of the book and make a collage of the items.	The book is about different animals that are doing different activities and the pages are filled with different concept of shape, colors, and number. It also asks the children questions to assess if they are understanding the information.

Predictable Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fantasy	Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type	Doreen Cronin/ Betsy Lewin	Pre- k- K	Students will make different instruments out of art material and we will make up song and music that has the click clack moo sounds in it	Story about cows that type out demands and if the demands are not met then the animals go on strike.
	Fantasy	The Scarecrow's Hat	Ken Brown	Pre- k - K	Pair up with partner and pick a small item that they will like to exchange with each other for that day.	Story about animals swapping out items with each other for other items that they wanted.

Traditional Literature Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fable	Strega Nona	Tomie de Paola	Ages 7-9	Let students share about a time they did something that they were not suppose to do and the consequences	A story about an old lady that hires help. She has to leave one day and tells Anthony not to mess with the pot but he doesn't listen and causes a big mess for the town.
	Fable	Pecos Bill	Steven Kellogg	1st-3rd	Make up a tall tale of their own and produce illustrations to go along with it.	A book about a boy that goes through a series of adventures that makes him the first cattle rancher. He was raised by a coyote and in the end falls in love with Slew foot Sue.
	Folk Tale	Caps for Sale	Esphyr Slobodkina	K - 2nd	Give children different colored hats and let them decorate it, so that it can be their own.	A book about a peddler selling different colored hats for fifty cents. He falls asleep under a tree and the monkeys takes his caps and will not give them back until he gets mad and throws down his cap and they copy him.
	Folk Tale	Rapunzel	Paul O. Zelinsky	K- 2nd	Give the children paper plates and they will make repunzel's face and her yellow long hair with yarn.	A book about a little baby that was stolen and kept in a tower. Her hair grows long enough for a gentleman to climb it and rescue her.
	Folk Tale	Three Billy Goats Gruff	Janet Stevens	Pre-K - 2nd	Will make puppets out of paper bags of the characters in the tale.	A story about three goats that want to get to the other side of the bridge but the troll won't let them, so they trick the troll so that they ma get to the other side.

Fantasy/ Science Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fantasy	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs	Judi Barrett/ Ron Barrett	2nd-3rd	Make mobile that contains the students most favorite foods. 3 each.	Grandpa tells the children about a story about a town called chewandswallow and their food was provided by the weather. When the weather gets out of control the people finally deserts the town.
	Fantasy	Frog and Toad Together	Arnold Lobel	2nd-3rd	Will plant sunflower seed and watch them grow, will chart the progress weekly on a class chart.	A collection of stories about frog and toad which are best friends. It tells of activities and adventures that they have had together.
	Fantasy	Franklin's Halloween	Paulette Bourgeois/ Brenda Clark	K - 2nd	Make face masks of what the children would like to be for Halloween.	Franklin and his friends are deciding what they are going to be for Halloween. They encounter a ghost at the party and think that it is Bear but comes to find out that Bear had been home sick.
	Fantasy/ Predictable	Green Eggs and Ham	Dr. Suess	Pre- K - 1st	Prepare to have the lunchroom make green eggs and ham and see if the kids like it. Chart who does and does not like it	A book about trying to convince Sam I am to try green eggs . After being asked a lot of times he finally gives in and realizes that he does like green eggs and ham.

Realistic Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Realistic Fiction	Junie B. Jones, Some thing Smells Fishy Chapter Book	Barbara Parker/ Denise Brunkins	2nd - 4th	The students will use different art materials to make their own pet and we will have a pet show.	The class is having pet day but there are no cats or dogs allowed so Junie B. has to come up with a pet to bring to the pet day.
	Realistic Fiction	The Old Woman Who Loved to Read.	John Winch	Pre- K - 1st	Let the kids share about an activity that they like to do in their free time.	A story about a woman tha tmoved from the city to a farm and she found that she had to many chores to do and not enough time to do her favorite hooby, reading.
	Realistic fiction	I Need a Lunch Box	Jeanette Caines/ Pat Cummings	K- 1st	We will make home made lunch boxes from shoe boxes that the children will bring from home.	A booka about a little boy who wants a lunch box so bad that he even dreams about it and in the end his dream comes true.
	Realistic Fiction	Junie B. Jones and the Big Fat Mouth Chapter Book	Barbara Parker/ Denise Brunkin	2nd - 4th	Let the kids decide what type of job they will like to do when they grow up. We will dress up like the professional that they chose.	They are having Job day and Junie B. has to decide what job will be the best of all.

Historical Fiction Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Historical Fiction/ Realistic fiction	Dance at Grandpa's	Laura Ingalls Wilder/ Renee Graef	Pre- K -1st	Will have a Cd with music from that time period and let the children show how they think they danced during those times.	There is a party at Grandpa's house through the woods. They people gathered, danced , and ate. They played the fiddle for music.
	Historical Fiction/ Realistic	The Monument Chapter Book	Gary Paulsen	3rd-5th	Let kids write a short narrative about someone who influenced them to try to do something different and they found that they liked it.	A book about a young girl that was adopted and the only friend that she had was her dog until a stranger came into town to build the monument. She finds a new friend and a new way to look at things in life.
	Historical Fiction/ Realistic	My Great Aunt Arizonia	Gloria Houston/ Susan Conde Lamb	K - 2nd	Students can draw a picture of their favorite teacher that they have had and they get to share with the class what they liked most about that teacher.	A story about a lady named Arizonia that became a teacher and though she never got to travel she always stated that she would like to. She became a teacher to many and was always remembered.

Poetry Anthologies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Fantasy	Awful Ogre's Awful Day	Jack Prelutsky/ Paul O. Zellinsky	1st-3rd	Make a schedule of their day and a poem to go along with it.	A collection of poems that describe Ogre's day. His day is not awful for him but for other that he encounters.
	Realistic Fiction	Dance With me	Barbara Esbensen/ Megan Lloyd	2nd-4th	Let the kids make a poem of their favorite dance and they will share poem and dance with the class.	A collectionof 15 poems that describes dance in numerous ways.

Muliticultural Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Muliticultural	Deigo ( New York Times best illustrated Award)	Jeanette and Jonah Winter/ Amy Prince (translator)	K-2nd	The children wil go to the art center and make a personal painting.	A story about a boy that lived in Mexico and he loved to paint. his paintings took him to other places but he always longed toreturn to Mexico.
	Muliticultural/ Folktale	The Spirit of Tio Fernando	Janic Levy/Morella Fuen Mayor	1st -3rd	Children will make a special token for someone that they love, past or present.	Book about a young boy's Uncle who has passed and the family is preparing for his spirit to return on the Day Of the Dead.
	Muliticultural/Realistic Fiction	Just the Two of Us	Will Smith/ Kadir Nelson	K-3rd	Let students bring a photograph of their dad or male figure and we'll make a picture frame for the picture.	A book about what a father is experiencing when his child is born and as he grows.
	Muliticultural/ ABC Concept	Gathering the Sun	Alma Flor Ada/ Simon Silva Rosa Zabizarreta (translator)	K-2nd	Group activity to recall if any of the children remember any of the Spanish words that they have been introduced to and what they mean.	A book that goes from A-Z using words in Spanish. The English translation is given but does not coincide with the book.
	Multi cultural/ Realistic fiction	Sounder Chapter Book Newbery Winner	William Armstrong/ James Barkley	3rd-5th	Write a poem to descibe an event that occured in the book.	The relationship about a boy and his dog and the struggles that the young boy has to go through when his father is jailed for staeling and his dog disappears.

Informational Books/Biography/Autobiography

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational	Bugs for Lunch	Margery Facklam/ Sylvia Long	Pre- K - 1st	Chose an animal fromthe book and chose what type of insect this animal would eat.	This book goes on a journey of different animals and the things that eat insects. The book gives a description of each animal.
	Informational	Going to the Dentist	Fred Rogers/ Jim Judkis	Pre- K- 1st	The kids will get to construct a set of healthy teeth from playdough and other craft materials	This books describes a trip to the dentist, what the office contains, and what the dentist does.
	Informational	Saftey on Your Bicycle	Jeanette Matten	Pre- K - 1st	As a group we wil make a list of safety rules and display them in the class.	Book informs the students on checking a bike for safety, the gear that needs to be worn , and the rules of riding.
	Biography	Martin Luther King Chapter Book	Rae Baines/ Hal Frenck	2nd-5th	Make a chart of what we knew about M.L.K. and what we want to know and then what we learned.	This book conveys the life of Martin Luther King. It tells about his beliefs of non- violence and how he fought for civil rights.