Electronic Reading File by Annie Linton

Electronic Reading File
By Annie Linton

Books read for my author study are written in purple.
Chapter books are written in blue.

10 Caldecott Medal Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak/ 1963	K-2	Let the students make a scary face using various art supplies. A paper plate can be used as the mask.	Max was mischievous one evening and his mother sent him to bed without his supper. Angrily, his imagination journeyed to the land of the Wild Things.
	Caldecott Medal	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Mordicai Gerstein/ Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook Press	Age: 4-8	Have students draw a picture of how they feel about 9-11.	A true story of Philippe Petit, who walked on a tight rope between the World Trade Towers in 1974.
	Caldecott Medal/ Informational	So You Want to Be President?	Judith St. George/ David Small/ 2000	Age: 9-12	The students can be placed into groups and each group can present a different President.	A great book about information on the Presidents. The President's faces are drawn in humorous ways.
	Caldecott Medal/ Picture Book	My Friend Rabbit	Eris Rohmann/ Roaring Book Press/ Millbrook Press	Grade: PreK-2	The students can make a paper airplane and see how far it can fly.	A mouse and his best friend take an airplane out to play. Trouble arises soon!
	Caldecott Medal/ Picture Book	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat	Simms Taback/ Viking	Grade Level: PreK- K	Have students make a picture with scrap materials.	A book that shows you can always make something out of nothing.
	Caldecott Medal/ Modern Fantasy	Jumanji	Van Allsburg/ 1981	Grade Level: 1-4	Students can make their own board game.	A brother and sister go on a wild adventure when their board game comes to life.
	Caldecott Medal	Snowflake Bentley	Illustrated by Mary Azarian/ By Jacqueline Briggs Martin	Ages: 4-8	Students can use construction paper and cut out a snowflake.	A story about a boy named Wilson Bentle who loves snow more than anything in the world, and is determined that one day his camera will capture the extraordinary and unique beauty of snowflakes.
	Caldecott Medal/ Modern Fantasy	The Little Island	Golden MacDonald/ Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard/ 1946	Grade Level: PreK-2	Students can draw pictures of the changing seasons.	A book about the ever changing seasons and about the little Island in a world of its own.
	Caldecott Medal	Smoky Night	Illustrated by David Diaz/ By Eve Bunting	Ages: 4-8	Children can draw a picture of an event that scared them.	Inspired by the Los Angeles riots, *Smoky Night* relates the happenings of a night of urban rioting from a child's perspective.
	Caldecott Medal	Black and White	David Macaulay	Ages: 9-12	Students can make up their own story and read it to the class.	This book is a series of four separate, odd stories. Kids will enjoy this book because each time you read the stories, a different meaning occurs.

2 Newbery Award Winners

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech/1994	Grade: 2-5	Students can write their own short story about a crazy trip they have had.	A wonderful story about a girl going through emotional changes in her life, and a crazy road trip with her grandparents.
	Modern Fantasy	The Giver	Louis Lowry	Grade: 2-5	Have children paint a town where everyone is identical. Then have the children paint a picture where everyone in the town is different.	A story about a boy who lives in a town where everyone is identical. He soon realizes he is different, and ventures on to the unknown land.

1 ABC Book

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr/ John Archambault/ Lois Ehlert/ 1989	Grade: PreK-2	Each student can make a letter puppet using popsicle sticks. Cut out the letter and let the students decorate their letter and glue it onto the popsicle stick.	The letters of the alphabet climb up a coconut tree and tumble down.

1 Counting Book

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Counting Book	Rainbow Fish 1,2,3	Marcus Pfister	Ages: 1-4	Kids can draw bright fish and count how many they have drawn.	Rainbow fish swims across the ocean floor under, over, around bright bold numbers .

1 Predictable Book

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book/ Predictable Book	The Grouchy Ladybug	Eric Carle/ 1977	Ages: 4-8	Students can make a lady bug into a clock to help them learn time.	A grouchy ladybug does not want to share her breakfast. She meets all kinds of animals throughout the day at different times. At the end of the day she is hungry and the nice ladybug had saved some dinner for her. This book is a great tool on how to teach about being respectful.

2 Picture Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Picture Book	Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?	Eric Carle	Ages: 1-6	Children can make a rhythm for the book	Children meet ten of the world's endangered animals - a bald eagle soaring , a water buffalo charging, a spider monkey swinging, a green sea turtle swimming, a macaroni penguin strutting, a sea lion splashing, a red wolf sneaking, a whooping crane flying, and a black panther strolling.
	Picture Book	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	Ages: 1-6	Students can draw pictures of different amounts of foods from the story to help them learn numbers.	A story about a hungry caterpillar that eats everything in site. At the end the caterpillar becomes a beautiful butterfly.

5 Traditional Fantasy

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	Rapunzel	Retold by Paul O. Zelinsky/ 1997	Grade: K-2	The students can act out the play. Girls can play the Princess and boys can be the Hero.	A folk tale of a girl trapped, but eventually she finds true love.
	Traditional Fantasy/ Caldecott Medal	Lon Po Po	Translated and Illustrated by Ed Young	Grade: 3-5	Students can discuss the similarities and differences of the American and Chinese version.	A Chinese version of the Little Red Riding Hood.
	Traditional Fantasy	Snow White and Rose Red	By the Brothers Grimm Illustrated by Adrienne Adams	Grade: 3-5	Students can make red and white roses with tissue paper.	A story about two sisters, Snow White and Rose Red who befriend the forest animals. They befriend a bear, and when they break the curse the evil dwarf put on him, he becomes a prince. Snow White marries him, and Rose Red marries his brother.
	Traditional Fantasy	The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!	Told to Jon Scieszka Illustrated by Lane Smith	Grade: 2-5	Students can make a stick house using popsicle sticks.	The wolf's side of the story. He was making a cake for his grandma and needed a cup of sugar. He had a cold and blew the straw and stick house down. He says he was framed.
	Traditional Fantasy	Golem	David Wisniewski	Ages: 4-8	Children can make Golem, or another character using play-do.	According to Jewish legend, the renowned scholar and teacher Rabbi Loew used his powers to create a Golem from clay in order to protect his people from persecution in the ghettos of 16th-century Prague.

5 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	The Missing Mitten Mystery	Steven Kellog	Grade: 1-2	Students can draw a picture of a snowman, and draw a mitten for it's heart.	A young girl loses her mitten. She looks everywhere for it, and at the end of the night she finds it on the snowman as his heart.
	Realistic Fiction	Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson	Grade: 3-5	Children can draw a picture of two students running at recess.	All summer long, Jess Aarons ran everyday so he could be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. Soon, school started and Jess was very eager to start racing at recess. Jess thought that he would win, but he was wrong, a new girl named Leslie Burke had won. Soon they became friends. With their imagination they created a kingdom called "Terabithia". As months passed by, Jess and Leslie became best friends. But one day, a big tragedy happened when Leslie had an accident and died.
	Realistic Fiction	Pinkerton, Behave!	Steven Kellogg	Ages: 4-8	Students can make a paper bag dog puppet.	This story is about a great dane who loves to get into trouble. His family tries to train him. He fails obedience school but passes with A+ as a guard dog.
	Realistic Fiction	Pictures of Hollis Woods	Patricia Reilly Giff	Grade: 3-5	Students can draw a picture from their favorite part of the book.	The story of an orphan girl who loves to draw pictures.
	Realistic Fiction	When I First Came to This Land	Retold by Harriet Ziefert/ Illustrated by Simms Taback	Ages: 4-8	Students can draw a picture of people on a boat coming to a new land.	A book with colorful images about coming to a new land.

5 Modern Fantasy

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	The Giving Tree	Shel Silverstein	Ages: 4-8	Students can write a short story of what they would give away to someone special.	When a boy was young he would play with an apple tree. As the boy got older the boy wanted more and more from the tree and the tree gave and gave until it had no more to give.
	Modern Fantasy	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg/ 1985	Grade: PreK-2	During the Holidays students can draw a winter wonderland.	A boy goes on a magical train ride to the North Pole. There he meets Santa Clause and he is chosen to receive the first gift.
	Modern Fantasy	Charlotte's Web	E.B White/ 1980	Grade: 3-5	Students can draw pictures of farm animals.	Story of an unlikely friendship of a spider and pig. In the end the spider saves the pig's life by spinning a web.
	Modern Fantasy	There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly	Illustrated by: Simms Taback	Grade: K-2	Students can draw pictures of the animals drawn in sequenced order.	Story of a lady who swallows various animals and dies.
	Modern Fantasy	This is the House That Jack Built	Simms Taback	Grade: 2-4	Children can make a house using popsicle sticks.	Jack builds a house like no other and fills it with cheeses from all nations, which of course attracts the rat that stirs up the cat.

5 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	Number the Stars	Louis Lowry	Grade: 4-6	Let the students write a letter expressing what it might be like to hide from soldiers. Then have the students write another letter expressing what it might be like to be reunited with your family.	Annemarie lives in the same apartment complex as her Jewish friend, Ellen. When the German soldiers come to take the Jewish people of Denmark into captivity, Ellen must pretend to be Annemarie's sister. After a few days, Ellen is taken to Annemarie's uncle's house who is a fisherman helping to resist German control. This is the place where Ellen is reunited with her mother and father. They are hidden in Annemarie's uncle's boat and taken to Sweden until the war is over, and it is safe to return home.
	Historical Fiction	Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	Grade: 3-5	Children can write a letter expressing how they feel about the arrival of their father's mail-order bride.	Cabel and Anna anxiously await the arrival of their father's mail-order bride.
	Historical Fiction	Caddie Woodlawn	Carol Ryrie Brink	Grade: 4-6	Students can draw a picture of Caddie becoming friends with the Indians.	A young girl's friendship with Indians prevents serious trouble in Wisconsin in the 1800's.
	Historical Fiction	The Key is Lost	Ida Vos	Grade: 3-6	Students can write a letter back home telling their friends of their move.	In 1940, twelve-year-old Eva and her family move from one hiding place to another during the German occupation of Holland.
	Historical Fiction	The Courage of Sarah Noble	Alice Dalgliesh	Grade: 2-4	Students can make a recipe of their favorite food.	Eight-year-old Sarah accompanies her father into the Connecticut wilderness to cook for him while he builds a house for the family, who will follow later.

1 Poetry Anthology

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	The Random House Book of Poetry for Children	Illustrated by: Arnold Lobel	Ages: 4-8	Children can draw a picture relating to their favorite poem.	A book of more than 500 favorite childhood poems.

2 Poetry Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Poetry	Hickory, Dickory, Dock	Robin Muller, Suzanne Duranceau/ 1992	Grade: PreK-2	Have the students make a rhythm for the book.	A book about how all the animals fall every hour, but at midnight they have a big party!
	Poetry	Spectacular Science	Lee Bennett Hopkins/ Illustrated by Virginia Halstead/1999	Ages: 4-8	Students can make snowflakes by folding a paper and cutting out a design on the edge of the folded paper.	A great book of poems about science. Subjects include: plants, prisms, magnets, dinosaurs, rocks, snowflakes, wind, sky, and the stars.

2 Biographies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Biography	Anastasia's Album	Hugh Brewster	Grade: 2-5	Students can keep a diary for two weeks of their own lives.	Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the last Russian Tsar, comes to life through her own diary entries and a wealth of historical photographs.
	Biography	Leonardo Davinci	Diane Stanley	Grade: 2-5	Students can make a picture of their own invention.	A book about the scientist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci. The multi talented Da Vinci was the original Renaissance man, but despite all his ability, Leonardo was never rich. He spent his life in search of people to support his work and in an endless quest for new ideas and activities.

3 Informational Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational Book	Curious George and the Firefighters	H. A. Rey	Ages: 4-8	Children can dress up as firemen and fire women.	George takes a trip to the firehouse where all sorts of adventures are waiting.
	Informational Book	The Best Book of Snakes	Christiane Guzi	Ages: 4-8	Children can make a snake out of play-do.	A book about the different kinds of snakes.
	Information Book	What's Out There? A Book About Space	Lynn Wilson	Ages: 4-8	Using styrofoam balls, students can make a planet and paint it.	A book about the 9 planets and their relation to the sun, how the earth travels around the sun and spins, the moon, gravity, the make-up of all the planets, and asteroids.

5 Multicultural/International Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/ Grade Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Multicultural	Amazing Grace	Mary Hoffman/ Caroline Binch 1991	Grade K-2	Students can write a short story about their own dreams.	Amazing Grace tells a positive story about a girl who follows her dreams.
	Multicultural	A Single Shard	Linda Sue Park	Ages: 9-12	Students can make their own pottery.	Set in 12th century Korea, a young boy becomes the apprentice to a master potter.
	Caldecott Medal/ Multicultural	Shadow	Ed Young/ 1989	Grade: K-2	Students can try to trace each other's shadows.	A book about how our shadow follows us everywhere.
	Multicultural	A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull	Joseph Bruchac	Grade: 1-3	Students can make a tepee out of brown construction paper and decorate it.	A boy is born into a Lakota family and is named in the traditional way, according to his most obvious feature, as 'Slow.' His father is a great warrior, and young Slow wishes for a vision of bravery to come to him that will allow him to prove himself to his people, and earn him a new name.
	Multicultural	Grandmother's Dreamcatcher	Becky McCain	Age: 4-7	Students can make a dreamcatcher with yarn.	While spending a week with her grandmother who, like her is a Chippewa Indian, Kimmy learns to make a dreamcatcher which allows the sleeper to have only sweet dreams.

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