From: Christine Hill <chill>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:45:29 -0500

My favorites for reading to groups this year:

Preschool- How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague: The text is so simple but perfectly chosen and the interplay of text and pictures is fasinating and humorous. This has joined a select group of pictures books that always has someone (or several) saying, "read it again."

Grades 3-4- The Secret of the Stones by Robert San Souci and James Ransome: I have actually had kids cry as I read this book and someone (or several) invariably say, "That was a good story." The theme of orphaned and mistreated children finding parents who love them hits kids where they live.

Grades 5-6- The Girl Who Spun Gold by Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon: The colloquial but poetic language and perfect pacing make this Rumplestiltskin variant read out loud like a dream, even for the most blase upper elementary students.

Christine M. Hill Willingboro Public Library One Salem Road Willingboro, NJ 08046 chill at willingboro.org My new book! Ten Terrific Authors for Teens, Enslow, 2000
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