15 Apr
Six Sheep Sip Thick Shakes: And Other Tricky Tongue Twisters
by Brian P. Cleary (Author) and Steve Mack (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Can you say these tongue twisters? (See tips on how to write your own!)
Snippet:
While the cat naps on the mat,
the gnats knit caps.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Random Noodling
Students, send me your poems (for my new EduHaiku Poetry Month blog)
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11 Feb
Way Out West on My Little Pony
by Jan Peck (Author) and Herb Leonhard (Illustrator)
Booktalk: A girl takes a ride on her pony…
Snippet
Way out west on my little pony,
I find an armadillo digging by me.
Howdy, armadillo.
Jump up, armadillo.
See you later, armadillo.
Trot away.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Rasco from Rif.
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10 Feb
Danny Is Done with Diapers: A Potty ABC
by Rebecca O’Connell (Author) and Amanda Gulliver (Illustrator)
Booktalk: This book for toddlers combines potty training and the ABCs.
Snippet:
D is for Dry.
Danny is done with diapers.
He is delighted to be dry.
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9 Feb
That’s Not Funny!
by Jeanne Willis (Author) and Adrian Reynolds (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Hyena plays a joke and one thing leads to another…(Ouch!)
Snippet: One day, just for a joke, Hyena put a banana peel on Giraffe’s path.
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7 Feb
The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter’s Wonder
By Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson, Ph.D.
Booktalk: Learn about the science of snow with these amazing photographs!
Snippet: 6 is the magic number for snow crystals.
BONUS! Download a teacher’s guide
This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up is at Wild About Nature.
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4 Feb
What’s for Dinner?: Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World
by Katherine B. Hauth (Author) and David Clark (Illustrator)
Booktalk: The subtitle “Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World” says it all. Find out about the weird ways that animals eat!
Snippet from the title poem: What’s for Dinner?
But finding food
is not a joke.
Living things must eat
or croak.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Dori Reads.
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3 Feb
Brownie & Pearl See the Sights
by Cynthia Rylant (Author) and Brian Biggs (Illustrator)
Booktalk: In this 24 page book for preschoolers, a girl and her cat go out in the snow to “see the sights” in the city.
Snippet:
What to see first?
[TURN THE PAGE]
The hat shop.
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2 Feb
Goal!
by Mina Javaherbin (Author) and A.G. Ford (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Ajani and his friends play soccer on the streets of South Africa, but what will happen when the bullies come?
Snippet:
We draw sticks. Badu gets the shortest one.
He is the first to stand guard on the roof.
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1 Feb
I Am the Dog
by Daniel Pinkwater (Author) and Jack E. Davis (Illustrator)
Booktalk: What happens when Jacob and his dog Max switch places?
Snippet:
When we woke up in the morning, Max was the boy and I was the dog.
I stretched. I yawned. I scratched behind my ear–
all things I had seen Max do.
I could tell already that I was going to like being a dog.
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31 Jan
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According To Susy)
by Barbara Kerley (Author) and Edwin Fotheringham (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Mark Twain’s daughter Susy writes her father’s biography (and this book is based on that one) So what did Susy say about her dad? See the small journal pages sewn into the larger book.
Snippet: It is papa that I am writing about, and I shall have no trouble in not knowing what to say about him, as he is a very striking character.
This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up is at The Miss Rumphius Effect.
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Anastasia Suen is the author of 160 books for children and adults, a literacy blogger, a children's literature consultant for several publishers, a former K,1,5, & 6 teacher who visits schools to teach the six traits of writing, and a former Staff Development for Educators, UNT and SMU instructor who teaches writing workshops online for adults who write for children.
