EDRE 4320 - Tabitha

Title: Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry  Author: Ashley Bryan Genre: Poetry Awards: Coretta Scott King Age Group: 10-14 Summary: This book was a mixture of poems for each letter of the alphabet. Each letter/poem had to do with the African American culture. From great figures in slavery, to the black persons stature, to parts of nature that African Americans symbolize, to elders who we remember; this book displays great figures that are very important to the black communities. Teacher Evaluation:  Although this book touched some major points in African American history, and other things that African Americans find beauty and hope in; the poem for each letter doesn't necessarily corresponds with the actual letter its describing. With that being said, it would be a book that I would just use for Black History Month.

Title: Together We Are Together Author: The ST. Brigid's Head Start Children Syracuse Genre: Poetry Awards: N/A Age Group: 4-6 Summary: This book had many different poems created about many different things by many different students. There was poems about friends, mommy, loving and hair. There were pictures that were drawn by each student that wrote the poem. Teacher Evaluation: This book would be used to show other students about writing poems and how we can write our own as a class.

Title: Feathers for Lunch Author: Lois Ehlert Genre: Poetry Awards: N/A Age Group: 5-8 Summary: This book was about a cat who went out looking for something new for lunch. The cats encounters different kinds of birds, and shows how he interacts with them and how they are compared to his can of food. He's really hungry but because the birds can fly, he only catches feathers for lunch. Teacher Evaluation: This book would be a good use for science because of the different types of birds that are shown, and the information on each bird, in the back of the book.

Title: The Itsy Bitsy Spider Author: DLM Legacy Collection of Children's Literature Genre: Poetry Awards: N/A Age Group: 4- 6 Summary: This book was the rhyme The Itsy Bitsy Spider. It went over the rhyme but had different pictures of different people and how they responded to the spider coming down. In the end, they all came together with the spider. Teacher Evaluation: This book was a cute replay of the original because this one played again and again, with different characters and them reacting to the spider doing different things.

Title: The Perfect Hug Author: Joanna Walsh & Judi Abbot Genre: Poetry Awards: N/A Age Group: 4-6 Summary: This book was about a panda who wanted the perfect hug. He went searching for a hug from different animals. Some wiggled, giggled, tickled and prickled but none were right for him. He continued his search for the perfect hug with animals that were to small and some that were way larger than him. Some were scary and some had way to many arms, and some had none. He searched high and low but none where right until he found a panda a size of his own. He the huge that was perfect for him, "If you hug me, I'll hug you!" Teacher Evaluation: This book was a cute little book to help students with understanding different animals and how they hug, or can't huge. The motions that go with each animal, and the different sounds they make. It also has rhyming words that go throughout the book. I really enjoyed this book.

Title: It's Mine! Author: Leo Lionni Genre: Traditional Literature Awards: N/A Age Group: 5-9 Summary: This book was about three frogs who each thought everything was their own. They fought about everything from morning to night. One wanted the pond to be all his, the other wanted the island to be all his and the last wanted the butterflies to be just for her. A toad from across the pod, told them how much their fighting bothered everyone, but they didn't listen. Then all of a sudden, a big storm appeared and scared the three little frogs. The frogs sat together on a rock and waited for the storm to end. Once the storm stopped, the frogs realized that they had been sitting on the toad and that he had saved them. In the end, the frogs played together and were no longer concerned about each having their own, but played together on the land, water and with the butterflies. Teacher Evaluation:  This book would be good to be used to help students understanding the concept...

Title: There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly Author: Child's Play Ltd Genre: Traditional Literature Awards: N/A Age Group: 3-5 Summary: This book was about an old lady who swallowed a fly, and then swallowed other animals to catch the other animals that she swallowed. She swallowed several animals until she died. Teacher Evaluation: This book was a fun book that I would use as a nonsense book. I would read this just for fun, or add an activity for the students to draw of things that would give them a tummy ache.

Title: The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs Author: Told to Jon Scieska Genre: Traditional Literature Awards: N/A Age Group: 6-10 Summary: This book is the fox's version of what happened with the three little pigs. He began by saying he was trying to make a cake for his grandmother but ran out of sugar. He went to borrow some from the first pig who's house was made of straw, but because of his cold, he sneezed and blew the house down. Once the house was down, he saw the dead pig and couldn't let that ham go to waste. The same happened for the second pig with the house made of sticks. Now, when he made it to the third pig and his brick house, the third pig was very rude to him and told him to go away, and talked bad about his grandmother. Because of the rude comment, the wolf  went crazy and when the police showed up, all they saw was him huffing and puffing. So he ended up in jail and was never able to finish the cake for his grandmother. Teacher Evaluation: Wit...

Title: Three Blind Mice Genre: Traditional Literature Author: John W. Ivimey Awards: N/A Age Group: 4-6 Summary: This book was about three mice who wanted to have some fun, so they went out looking for some. They tried to stay at a inn but there was no room so they stayed in field and caught colds. they became very hungry, and asked for crumbs and a farmer was so kind to feed them till they were full. The farmers wife was unhappy with the mice, so she sent her cat to chase them out, but in the chase, the mice became blind from bramble hedge. Eventually the blind mice find a rabbit who have magic grease and they put it on their eyes and could see again. After this adventure, the mice decided to settle down so they built a house and stayed there till the end. Teacher Evaluation: This book was very different from the three blind mice rhyme that I grew up with. I wouldn't use this one to teach rhyme because there is so much more story in between each part of the song that ...

Title: The Gingerbread Man Genre: Traditional Literature Author: Retold by, Catherine McCafferty Awards: N/A Age Group: Ages 4-6 Summary: The Gingerbread man was about an older couple who didn't have any kids. The woman decided to bake her a child, so she baked a gingerbread man. After she baked him, so decorated him and he instantly came to life. Once he was alive, he ran away. On his run, he passed a cat, a snake,  and a goose, saying " You can run and run as fast as you can! You can't catch me, i'm the gingerbread man!" He out ran all of these animals until he came to the fox who out smarted the gingerbread man. The gingerbread man came to a river, and the fox told him he wouldn't be able to get across without his help. So the gingerbread man jumped on the foxes back, and when the water got higher, the fox told the gingerbread man to move to his head. Once the gingerbread man was on the foxes head, the water got even higher, so the fox told him t...

Title: Wonder Genre: Realistic Fiction Author: R.J. Palacio Awards: Junior Young Reader's Choice in 2015 Age Group: 8-13 Summary:  Wonder was about a young boy named August, with an extreme facial abnormality. He went from being sheltered, and home schooled all of his life because of surgeries, and other extreme health conditions, to succeeding at a public school his 5th grade year. The book starts with developing the main character by explaining what was wrong with him, and his parents introducing the idea of going to a public school, instead of continuing with being home schooled. It then goes through his introduction to public school and meeting kids who haven't seen anyone like him, to the lows of starting 5th grade which included bulling, segregation, name calling, and many more hardships he had to face. In between his problems, the reader was about to read about his parents and sisters feelings about Auggie, his face, how they felt about him going to sc...