New Book News
April/May/June 2003
Excerpt
Book
There's a Frog in My Throat!
440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me by Loreen Leedy and Pat Street
Holiday House, 2003 (grades 1-8)
An explanation of the many similes, metaphors, proverbs, and idioms that are sayings about animals.
Idea
The blurb for this book is filled with animal sayings and puns. Share the blurb with readers, asking them to identify the animal sayings and what they actually mean. Challenge readers to write a description of an animal book they have read that includes at least three animal sayings.
Leapin' Lizards! You will go ape over this book about a dog that goes hog wild and stirs up a hornet's nest in the produce department of a local grocery story.
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Idea
Share some of the animal expressions in this book and ask readers to write, draw, or orally explain their meanings. Compare what your readers thought the phrase meant with the authors' explanations.
Idea
Readers can make a collage illustration for the literal meaning of one of these sayings. They can find appropriate pictures in magazines for parts of their collage and layer the pictures just as the illustrators have done in this book.
Strategies for the following books are also included in the April/May/June issue
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- Anna the Bookbinder
- by Andrea Cheng. (gr. 1-6)
- Beautiful Blackbird
- by Ashley Bryan. (gr. K-4)
- Bow Wow Meow Meow
- by Douglas Florian. (gr. 1-8)
- Casey at the Bat
- illustrated by C.F. Payne. (gr. 1-8)
- First to Fly
- by Peter Busby. (gr. 4-8)
- Flora's Surprise
- by Debi Gliori. (gr. K-2)
- Girl Wonder
- by Deborah Hopkinson. (gr. 1-4)
- Hippos in the Night
- by Christina Allen. (gr. 2-5)
- How Angel Peterson Got His Name and Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports
- by Gary Paulsen. (gr. 5-8)
- How Groundhog's Garden Grew
- by Lynne Cherry. (gr. K-4)
- Into the Woods: John James Audubon Lives His Dream
- by Robert Burleigh. (gr. 2-6)
- It's a Hummingbird's life
- by Irene Kelly. (gr. K-3)
- Jackalope
- by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel. (gr. 1-4)
- Mother to Tigers
- by George Ella Lyon. (gr. K-4)
- My Brother's Flying Machine
- by Jane Yolen. (gr. 2-5)
- Players in Pigtails
- by Shana Corey. (gr. 2-5)
- Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson
- by Eve Bunting. (gr. 2-5)
- Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
- by Ron Koertge. (gr. 6-9)
- The Silent Boy
- by Lois Lowry. (gr. 5-8)
- Tippy-Toe Chick, Go
- by George Shannon. (gr. K-3)
- Tooth and Claw: Animal Adventures in the Wild
- by Ted Lewin. (gr. 4-7)
- Whales Passing
- by Eve Bunting. (gr. K-4)
- What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
- by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. (gr. 1-5)
- Wild Birds
- by Joanne Ryder. (gr. K-3)
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