Key: Author Study Chapter Books

Newbery Award Winners

ABC, Counting, and Predictable

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Concept ABC Book	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault/ Lois Ehlert/ 1989	K-2	Construct a large tree with the letters of the alphabet and have the children put the right letter on the tree along with bool while everyone sings th rhyme	An alphabet book with a rhyming song that tells what happens if too  many letters climb the coconut tree. It teaches lower and upper case letters
	Concept Counting Book	Anno's Counting Book	Mitsumasa Anno/1977	Pre-K-2	Have students pick a number a draw a picture using that number of different object like the author did.	The author teaches the concept of counting as he builds a village page by page by using that number of objects on each page.
	Predictable Book	Brown Bear, Brown Bear , What Do YouSee?	Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle/ 1970	K-2	Have children write and illustrate thir own book using different characters and colors while following the  same "what do you see?" forrmat	A song game teaching colors.

Picture Books

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Modern Fantasy	Just Big Enough	Mercer Mayer	K-2	have children draw a picture of wha they are Just big enough to do. Have the class build their own growing machine and see if it works.	After being told that he is two little to play with the big kids, Little Critter tries to make himself grow by building a growing machine. After that fails he finds out that he can beat the big kids at running and realizes that for somethings he is just big enough.
	Modern Fantasy	Just a Daydream	Mercer Mayer	K-2	Have children paint a picture of what they would be and do in their own daydream.	Little Critter daydreams about being Super Critter. If he was Super Critter he would get back at and defeat all the bullies in the world.

Traditional Literature/Fantasy

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Traditional Fantasy	American Tall Tales	Mary Pope Osbourne/Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy/ 1991	3-5	Have the students write a tall tale with themselves as the main character	A collection of tall tales such as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, and Davy Crockett
	Traditional Fantasy	Rumpelstiltskin	retold and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky	K-2	Read Aloud Picture walk Read using a Big Book	A miller tells the king that his daughter can weave straw into gold. The locks her in a room and tells her that if she can't do it, she will die. A little Man saves her three times but when she has nothing left to give him, she promises to give him her first child. When he comes to get the child, she doesn't want to give it up so the little man gives her three days to figure out his name or he'll take the baby.
	Traditional Fantasy	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	retold by Jim Aylesworth/Barbera McClintock	Pre-K, K-2	Write a Children's theatre script	While the bear family is out for a walk, Goldilocks enters their house, eats their porridge, sits in their chairs, and sleeps in their beds.
	Traditional Fantasy	Mother Goose The Volland Edition	Eulalie Osgood Grover (arranged & edited)/Frederick Richardson/1997	Pre-s, K-2	Read aloud	Collection of classic Mother Goose Rhymes

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	There's a Nightmare in My Closet	Mercer Mayer	Pre-K-2	Using clay, allow chilren to mold the nightmare in their closet.	A young boy decides to get rid of his nightmare by confronting the monster.
	Modern Fantasy	Just My Friend And Me	Mercer Mayer	Pre-K-2	Pair children off and let them create a portrait of their "friend"	Little Critter's friend comes over to play and  Little Critter realizes that sometimes he likes to just be alone
	Modern Fantasy	You're the Scaredy-Cat	Mercer Mayer	Pre-K-2	Read the story with a puppet being the monster	Two brothers camp in the backyard. the older broher tells a scary story while the little brother falls asleep. the little brother wakes up and goes back inside. Big Brother wakes to find llittle brother gone. Frightened that the garbage monster ate his brother, he runs back to his room. He calls his little brother a scaredy-cat for coming in first.
	Modern Fantasy	I Just Forgot	Mercer Mayer/1988	Pre-K-2	Read aloud for enjoyment	Little Critter sometimes forgets to do things ike turn the waer off but he never forgets to have Mom read a bedtime story or to kiss her goodnight.
	Modern Fantasy	Justa Piggy bank	Gina and Mercer Mayer/2001	Pre-K-2	Make a piggy bank out of Clay and have the students share what they would save their money for	Little Critter gets a piggy bank and soon learns that he has to work in order to get money to put in it. He also learns that his piggy bank is a safe place tp put his money

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	Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls/1961	5-6, 7+	Draw their favorite part of the book	A young works hard to buy two coonhounds he had always wanted. the three become inseparable and the dogs becme the two best coonhounds. One hunting trip turns tragic when the dogs take on a mountin lion.
	Realistic Fiction	Stone Fox	John Reynolds Gardinier	5-6, 7+	Draw a dog sled race track and write about what you would do if you were a participant	In order to save his family's farm and take care of his sick grandpa, Willy enters the grownup dog sled race and races his small dog against the best dog sled teams
	Realistic Fiction	Daddy Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Betty Boegehold	K-2	Read Aloud and have a class discussion	Casey's Mom And Dad are always fighting. One Day Casey comes home to find that daddy has moved out and her parents are getting a divorce

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	Little House on the Praire	Laura Ingalls Wider/Garth Williams/1935	3-4	perform a class play	Laura's family leaves their house in the Big Woods to start again on the unsettled praire. They meet new neighbors and friends. They come in contact with Indians and battle the hardships of praire life like sickness and fire.
	Historical Fiction	Forty acres and Maybe a Mule	Harriette Gillem Robinet/ 1998	5-6, 7+	Have the students pretend they were a newly freed slave and have them write a story and draw a picture of their family farm if thy were given forty acres.	Pascal and his brother and his friend find out that they are free and set out to find a Freedmen's Bureau. They encounter many obstacles and hardships along the way.
	Historical Fiction	Ox-cart Man	Donald Hall/ Barbara Cooney/1979	k-2, 3-4	Draw their favorite season	Depicts the life of a farmer throughout the seasons
	Historical Fiction	Across Five Aprils	Irene Hunt/ 1964	5-6, 7+	Sing Civil War Battle songs. Have students write about which side they would fight for if they chose to sign up to fight and why.	After his brothers go off to fight in the Civil war, Jethro's father has a heart attack and Jethro must become the man of the house

Poetry Anthology

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	K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7+	reading for enjoyment	A collection of funny, silly, amusig, off the wall poems.

Poetry

Biographies

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Biography	Louis Braille The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind	Margaret Davidson/ 1971	5-6	Have students write a messages in Braille and then exchamge them and using only their finger try to desipher the message.	Louis Braille was a very smart boy who was blinded by an accident with a tool in his father's workshop. He convinced his parentsto let him go off to a school where he thought he would be able read lots of books. the library only had a minute selection. At 14, Louis adapted the idea of raised dots from a captain's nightwriting. He reformed it  and invented braille. He died  at the age of 35  of tuberculosis.
	Biography	Pocahontas The True Story of the Powhatan Princess	Catherine Iannone/ 1996	5-6, 7+	Have students research the Powhattan Indians and create a culture day.	Pochahontas promoted peace between her people and the English. She married John Rolfe and had a son.

Informational

Picture of Book	Genre	Title	Author/ Illustrator/ Copyright	Recommended Age/Grade  Level	Ideas for Classroom Use	Brief Description of the Book
	Informational	When Dinosaurs Die	Laurene Kransy Brown and Marc Brown/1996	Pre-s, K-2, 3-4	I would this book and have a class discussion about death if a child in my class experiences it.	Informaion on what happens when people die. It explains that can occur sudeenly from an accident or illness. It also explains that death doesn't occur to only the old, but that it can happen at any age even birth or before.

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