New Book News
November/December 2002
Excerpt
Book
All the Way to Lhasa by Barbara Helen Berger
Philomel, 2002 (all ages)
A young boy takes an important journey one step at a time in this tale from Tibet that reminds us that slow and steady, determination and persistence, helps to reach goals.
Idea
After sharing this story, ask readers to identify its moral, and how it applies to their lives. Discuss specific situations when slow and steady helps to reach long-term goals.
Students can identify something that they learned that was not learned all-at-once, but rather gradually. They can draw the specific steps to their learning on a piece of paper folded into 4 or 8 sections. Idea: Compare this story to the ever-popular fable about the tortoise and the hare. Discuss whether the morals are similar, and how this tale is adapted to a different culture. Which of the two stories seems most applicable to the readers and why.
Idea
Enlarge the shoe on this page. Readers can identify something in their lives that must be done step-by-step, and write or draw about it on the shoe outline.
Strategies for the following books are also included in the November/December issue
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- Action Jackson
- by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (gr. 1-8)
- Degas and the Dance
- by Susan Goldman Rubin (gr. 2-5)
- Frida
- by Jonah Winter. (gr. 1-8)
- The Hero's Trail
- by T.A. Barron. (gr. 5+)
- In the Time of Picasso: The Foundations of Modern Art
- by Antony Mason. (gr. 4-7)
- In the Time of Warhol: The Development of Contemporary Art
- by Antony Mason. (gr. 4-7)
- Mrs. Brown on Exhibit and Other Museum Poems
- by Susan Katz. (gr. 1-4)
- Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas
- by Carol Sabbeth. (gr. 3-8)
- New York's Bravest
- by Mary Pope Osborne. (gr. 1-4)
- Paul Klee
- by Jill A. Laidlaw. (gr. 3-5)
- Runaway Dreidel!
- by Leslea Newman. (gr. K-3)
- Salvador Dali
- by Robert Anderson. (gr. 3-5)
- The Same Stuff as Stars
- by Katherine Paterson. (gr. 4-7)
- Surviving the Applewhites
- by Stephanie S. Tolan. (gr. 5-8)
- Thank You, Sarah
- by Laurie Halse Anderson. (gr. 1-6)
- Turk and Runt
- by Lisa Wheeler. (gr. K-3)
- 'Twas the Fright Before Christmas
- by Judy Sierra. (gr. K-4)
- Twelve Days: A Christmas Countdown
- by Mary Jane and Herm Auch. (gr. K-5)
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