Children's+Literature

Children's Literature  Authors Shaun Tan



[] [] - Print Interview [] - Video interview [] - Unit of Study

** htt**p://reading-wordless-books-arrival.wikispaces.com/ - how to read a wordless picture book

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Oliver Jeffers

Videos for Oliver Jeffers [] (behind the scenes of the puppet show) [] [] []

Author and Illustrator study Oliver Jeffers []

Video of the authors – Oliver Jeffers

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Langston Hughes -- website that has him reading some of his poems. []

By Helaine Becker -- GREAT poems and she is Clare's friend. Check out her website -because it has fabulous resources for teachers. [] She is Canadian and has won many awards for her books. LOTS of non-fiction materials.

Margaret Wild

Written interview with Margaret Wild http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2011/04/interview-margaret-wild.html Woolvs in the Sitee -- not sure that I would classify it as children's literature but ...

Woolvs in the Citee by Margaret Wild Book Talk Tuesday --- EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 * [] Book Trailer with music
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 * http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/woolvs-in-the-sitee/


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Lane Smith
 * http://www.penguin.com.au/educationcentre/pdf/teachers_notes/PDF/9780143502562.pdf Teacher's Guide
 * Lane Smith -- one of my new favourite authors

Interview with Lane Smith who wrote It's a Book

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Check out his website! Wow!

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Various Titles Amazing book in Braille and text with raised illustrations on black paper. //The Black Book of colors// by Menea Cottin and Rosana Faira. [|www.groundwoodbooks.com] Hip Hop Speaks to Children by Nikki Giovanni

Here is a clip of Nikki reading from Hip Hop speaks to Children [] This is the book we looked at and DVD we listened to in class.

Themes Books for Black History Month

//The Children of Africaville by// Christine Welldon
 * //Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem// by Valerie bllom and David Axtell
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?// by Sandy Lynne Holman
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Viola Desmond Won't be Budged// by Jody Nyasha Warner and Richard Rudnicki
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//More than Anything Else// by Marie Bradley
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Shop Talk// by Juwanda Ford
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Child//ren by Sandra Pinkney
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Mandela for Young Beginners// by Sue Adler and Petra Rohr-Rouendaal
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Langston Hughes: American Poet// by Alice Walker
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//The Fresh Prince of Hollywood: Will Smith// by Julia Holt
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Amazing Grace// and //Grace and Family// by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Smoky Nights// by Eve Bunting (about LA riots)
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Your Move by Eve Bunting (about gangs)
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali// by Charles R. Smith Jr
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">//My First Book of Biographies: Great Men and Women Every Child Should Know// by Jean Marzollo
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//A Picture Book of Martin Luther King Jr//. by David Adler
 * <span style="color: #003cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">My First Book of Biographies: Great Men and Women Every Child Should Know by Jean Marzollo

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Multicultural Literature <span style="color: #6d00ff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Jewish** <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Patricia Polacco – //The Trees of the Dancing Goats// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Patricia Polacco – //The Keeping Quilt// [|http://www.webenglishteacher.com/polacco.html#kq] -- Lesson plans/units for //The Keeping Quilt//

<span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sheldon Oberman – //The Always Prayer Shawl// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Edited by Eric Kimmel - //A Hanukkah Treasury// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Michael Rosen – //Elijah’s Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Eric Kimmel - //Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins// <span style="color: #6d00ff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Christian**

<span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Janet and Allan Ahlberg – //The Jolly Christmas Postman// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cynthia Hart, John Grossman, and Priscilla Dunhill – //A Victorian Christmas: Joy to the World// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Margaret Laurence – //The Olden Days Coat// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">O’henry – //The Gift of the Magi// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dr. Seuss – //How the Grinch Stole Christmas// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Charles Dickens – //A Christmas Carol// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//T’was the Night Before Christmas// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Becker, Helaine //– A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas//

<span style="color: #6d00ff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Muslim** <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Rukhsana Khan – //Muslim Child: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Suhaib Hamid Ghazi – //Ramadan// <span style="color: #6d00ff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**African American**

<span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Burden-Patmon, Denise – //Imani’s gift at Kwanzaa//

<span style="color: #6d00ff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">**Cross-Cultural** <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">UNICEF- //Children Just Like Me// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Students of Cunningham Elementary School – //We are All Related: A Celebration of Our Cultural Heritage// <span style="color: #6d00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">UNICEF – //Children Just Like Me: Celebrations//

Halloween books

[|The Ghost-Eye Tree] by Bill Martin This website has all sorts of activities for Bill Martin books (e.g., Brown, Brown Bear What do you See?) []

Fractured Fairy Tales
 * The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka
 * Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson
 * The Book that Jack Wrote by John Scieszka
 * Prince Cindrs by Babette Cole
 * Sleepless Beauty by Frances Minters
 * The Three Litle Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas and Helen Oxenbury
 * Princess Smarty Pants by Babette Cole
 * The Big Bad Wolf and Me by Delphine Perret
 * Yours Truly Goldilocks by Alma Flor Ada
 * The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

Katherine Patterson is read in many classrooms. Here is an interview with her.

Interview with Katherine Patterson []


 * Books for First Days of School

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> [|Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life] by James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts and Laura Park (novel) <span style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">[|Splat The Cat: Back To School, Splat!] <span class="ptbrand3" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">by Rob Scotton







[|First Day at School] by Monica Hughes (novel) [|It's the First Day of School...Forever!] by R.L. Stine (novel) [|Top Ten Ways to Ruin the First Day of School] by Ken Derby (picture book) [|Clifford's First School Day] by Norman Bridwell (picture book) [|Sumis First Day Of School] by Soyung Pak and Kim Joung Un (picture book) [|Miss Mingo and the First Day of School] by Jamie Harper (picture book) [|Sam and Gram and the First Day of School] by Blomberg (picture book) [|First Day Jitters] by Julie Danneberg (picture book) [|Franklin's First Day at School] by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark (board book) The way we do it in Japan by Geneva Cobb Iijima - I showed the P/Js this book. This would be a great book to use at the start of practice teaching..<span style="color: #3e7cbb; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">

What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio This book provides photographs, stories, and recipes from all around the world. Great for connecting literacy to social studies or health.


 * FREE ONLINE BOOKS** - We Give Books is website where you can make a free account and read books online. Every book you read online, they make a donation to a charity. Can also be used on SmartBoards.

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