New Childrens Books

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New Childrens Books Presented by Shelly Bitner
Kelly Link Wilson/Washington School-Wide
Improvement Day March 1, 2007
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A Book is a Work of ART Can you think of a book
that is Astounding, Astonishing,
Attractive Remarkable, Readable, Reputable
Timeless, Tantalizing, Top-notch Post an
adjective of the week (one the students dont
know). Challenge them to think of a book which
could be described with that adjective.
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• Top 10 Masterpieces
• Charlie Cooks Favorite Book
• Black Duck
• Chowder
• Written Anything Good Lately?
• the fruit bowl project
• The Legend of Spud Murphy
• Fancy Nancy
• Porch Lies
• Runny Babbit
• Wild About Books

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Charlie Cooks Favorite Book by
Julia Donaldson Displays the art of a favorite
book Encourage your students to choose
their next book based on the title of their last
book. Example The Miraculous Journey of Edward
Tulane by Kate DiCamillo leads to Eats, Shoots,
Leaves by Lynne Truss.
Everyone has a favorite book, as one title leads
to another.
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Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein
Focuses on phonemic awareness and conversation
skills

• Plunge headlong into this phonemic flip-flop
  world of funny poems. "So if you say, 'Let's bead
  a rook/That's billy as can se,'/You're talkin'
  Runny Babbit talk,/Just like mim and he."

After reading, have students write their own
very pilly soems.
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Chowder by Peter Brown Demonstrates the art of
character Use first lines to encourage
kids to read books. Ask students to write
alternative first lines. Read three possible
first lines for a book and ask students to
predict the correct one.
Chowder has always been different.
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The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin
Colfer Conveys the the art of characterization
Ask your students the following What is
the voice owners gender? What color hair does
the voice owner have? What is the voice owners
job? What is the age of the voice owner?
Spending lots of time at the library is not the
kind of experience William and his brother
expected.
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Written Anything Good Lately? by Susan Allen
Jane Lindaman Illustrates the art of writing
Ask your students to identify even more
writing possibilities for each letter.
This book takes a look at 26 different types of
writing, one for each letter of the alphabet.
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Fancy N ancy by Jane OConnor Builds the the art
of vocabulary Ask your students to
fill in the blank. The plain word is book. The
fancy word is and so on with other examples.
Nancy loves being fancy, and she wants her family
to be the same.
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the fruit bowl project by Sarah
Durkee Establishes the art of voice
Your students complete the same assignment and
compare/contrast with those in the novel.
Write about school, sixth grade, a reading test,
a dropped pencil, an angry girl, lunch, milk
out of the nose!
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Porch Lies by Patricia C. McKissak Conveys the
art of plot Your students write three
things about themselves or about their books, one
being false two being true. Classmates guess
which one is the porch lie.
After dinner, people gather on the porch to hear
tales of slicksters, tricksters, wily
characters.
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Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle Reveals the art
of historical fiction Ask your
students to respond How can you be honest when
everyone is being dishonest?
History mystery collide in a gripping saga of
rum-running on the Rhode Island coast during the
1920s.
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Wild About Books by Judy Sierra Communicates the
the art of reading Ask your students
to think of words that begin with the letters of
W-I-L-D that might describe a character or book
they have read lately.
When the librarian brings books to the zoo, the
animals go wild about reading!