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Queen of the Falls Written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg Published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011 ISBN # 978-0547315812 All grades Book Review What is a poor 62-year old charm school teacher to do in 1901 when forced to close her school and lose her source of income? How about go over […]
Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile and Biblioburro
Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|Miss Dorothy and her Bookmobile Written by Gloria Houston and Illustrated by Susan Condie Lamb Published in 2011 by Harper, ISBN 978-0-06-029155-6 All Ages Review Young Dorothy dreams of becoming a librarian in charge of a “fine brick library.” She pursues this dream, obtaining the education that she needs. When marriage takes her to the […]
Me… Jane Written and Illustrated by Patrick McDonnell Published in 2011 by Little, Brown and Co., ISBN 978-0-316-04546-9 All Ages. The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps. Written and Illustrated by Jeanette Winter Published in 2011 by Schwartz and Wade Books, ISBN 978-0-375-86774-3 All ages. Me.. Jane Book Review From an early age, Jane […]
Night Flight and Amelia Lost
Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Chapter Books, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|This week, The Classroom Bookshelf reviews two new biographies about Amelia Earhart that we felt deserved attention in today’s classrooms. This is our first experiment blogging about two related books concurrently, Night Flight, a picture book, and Amelia Lost, a chapter book. There are two separate reviews; our Teaching Invitations for the primary and intermediate […]
2011 ALA Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award: Dave the Potter
Awards, Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
|Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave Written by Laban Carrick Hill; Illustrated by Bryan Collier Little Brown, and Company, New York 2010 ISBN 978-0-316-10731-0 Book Review Dave the Potter, sometimes known as David Drake, was taught to read in South Carolina in the early 19th century, when it was against the law for an enslaved […]
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