New Book News
November/December 2001
Excerpt
Book
Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack.
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Atheneum, 2001 (gr. 1-5)
The trip to "someplace special" is not easy, but it is worth the trip.
Idea
This is a season when many people are going "someplace special" to visit family and friends. Your readers can identify "someplace special" they like to visit, and why that place is so special. After reading this book, ask the question again to determine whether any other different / special places are described.
Students can then draw a picture of their special place and write a brief description as to why it is so special for a booklet entitled "Someplaces Special."
Idea
Readers can identify books that feature locations that were special to them. Combine the book titles and reasons why the setting was so special into a bibliography entitled "Someplaces Special."
Idea
Readers can write why their own library is a special place on blue ribbon-shaped pieces of construction paper. Post these blue-ribbon reasons in the library, so others can see why the library really is "someplace special."
Strategies for the following books are also included in the November/December issue
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- Boston Jane
- by Jennifer L. Holm. (gr. 5-8)
- Children Around the World
- by Donato Montanari. (gr. 1-3)
- The Christmas Promise
- by Susan Bartoletti. (gr. 1-6)
- Clever Beatrice
- by Margaret Willey. (gr. K-4)
- Cobweb Christmas
- by Shirley Climo. (gr. K-4)
- Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast
- by Kate Waters. (gr. 1-4)
- Goin' Someplace Special
- by Patricia C. McKissack. (gr. 1-5)
- Hark! The Aardvark Angels Sing
- by Teri Sloat. (gr. K-3)
- It's My City!
- by April Pulley Sayre. (gr. K-2)
- The Legend of the Lady's Slipper
- by Kathy-jo Wargin. (gr. 2-5)
- Mim's Christmas Jam
- by Andrea Davis Pinkney. (gr. 2-5)
- Ms. Frizzle's Adventures in Ancient Egypt
- by Joanna Cole. (gr. 2-6)
- Rivka's First Thanksgiving
- by Elsa Okon Rael. (gr. K-3)
- Shrinking Violet
- by Cari Best. Farrar (gr. K-3)
- 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving
- by Catherine O'Neill Grace and Margaret M. Bruchac. (gr. 3-6)
- Story in a Box: The Princess and the Pea
- by Keri Smith. (gr. K-4)
- This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story
- by Laura Krauss Melmed. (gr. K-2)
- Where I Live
- by Frances Wolfe. (gr. K-5)
- Witness
- by Karen Hesse. (gr. 5-8)
- Zigazak!
- by Eric A. Kimmel. (gr. K-3)
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