A Fuse #8 Production
Mary Ann Cappiello, June 6, 2011 | Novels
Junonia By Kevin Henkes Greenwillow Books, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-196417-6 Grades 3-6 Book Review When on their annual winter holiday on Sanibel Island, Alice Rice and her parents commemorate each special ritual, from the first heron to the first step in the ocean to Alice’s birthday. Alice’s “family was small, but in Florida, she pretended […]
Grace Enriquez, May 31, 2011 | Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
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 […]
Erika Thulin Dawes, May 22, 2011 | 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 […]
Grace Enriquez, May 9, 2011 | Poetry
Inside Out & Back Again Written by Thanhha Lai Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2011 ISBN # 9780061962783 Grades 4 and up Book Review The last thing ten year-old Hà expects is that her life as she knows it will fall apart. But that is precisely what happens in 1975 as Saigon […]
Erika Thulin Dawes, May 2, 2011 | Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
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 […]
Mary Ann Cappiello, April 25, 2011 | Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books
Written and Illustrated by Thomas F. Yezerski Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2011 ISBN 978-0-374-34913-4 Grades 3-8 Book Review There are wetlands, and there are wetlands. For many adults, the Meadowlands of New Jersey can rouse certain images: chemical factories belching out smoke, Tony Soprano, the massive convergence of crowded highways leading in and out […]
Grace Enriquez, April 18, 2011 | Comics & Graphic Novels
Smile Written and illustrated by Raina TelgemeierPublished by Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2010ISBN # 978-0545132060Grades 4 and up Review In this hilarious autobiographical tale by author-illustrator Raina Telgemeier, a series of dental disasters provides an appropriate analogy for the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of adolescence. One clumsy fall in the sixth grade damages Raina’s two […]
Erika Thulin Dawes, April 5, 2011 | Fiction Picture Books, Picture Books
Gabby & Grandma Go Green Written and Illustrated by Monica Wellington Published in 2011 by Dutton Children’s Books, ISBN 0-525-42214-5 Grades PreK – 6 Review From the recycling symbols on the endpapers to the “Green Tips” in the back matter, the latest offering from Monica Wellington sends a consistent message: take action to protect your […]
Mary Ann Cappiello, April 4, 2011 | 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 […]
Grace Enriquez, March 28, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Underground: Finding the Light to FreedomWritten and illustrated by Shane W. EvansPublished by Roaring Brook Press, 2011ISBN # 978-1596435384All grades Book Review “The darkness.”“The fear.”“We run.” With these succinct opening statements, award winning illustrator Shane Evans provides an intimate portrait of a family’s nighttime flight from slavery in his new picture book, Underground. Each double-page […]
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