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From: Lisa Von Drasek <lisav>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:13:37 -0500
from youngest to oldest-
For reading aloud to threes and fours- Trucks Roll, George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Craig Frazier. a rollicking read aloud with fill
-the-page graphically rendered trucks containing absurd cargo. Our kids chime in on the repetitive language and beg for me to start at the beginning again seconds after I announce The End.
Speaking of absurd, inheriting the cartoon interactive mantle from Pigeon Drives a Bus is Where will Fat Cat Sit? This book had them literally rolling in the aisles.
Best easy reads- Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie books, irresistible. and Dog and Bear by Vaccaro Seeger favorite non fiction- Nic Bishop does it again with Spiders, clear factual information supporting stunning photographs. And I don't even like spiders.
What we are reading for our mock Newbery, 5th and 6th graders Elijah Buxton- feedback- hard to get into but for the kids who persevered quite rewarding Crooked Kind of Perfect- sleeper of the year, both boys and girls report that it was laugh aloud funny with characters that they could relate to.
True Meaning of Smek Day- Both ends of the spectrum. Kids are getting the sophisticated satire and are enjoying the humor as well as the page turning quest tale. Students who are well-read in science fiction and fantasy are having a great time pointing out intertextual connections. I was astonished by the consistency of the boov speaking English with a consistent syntax of a second language learner. It was those kinds of details that made me fall in love with this book and reread it again and again.
One class of 5th graders adopted No Talking by Andrew Clements as their very own. Everyone read it and the buzz has spread down to 4th and 3rd graders. I?ll never have enough copies.
Starting to get reports back on The Wednesday Wars. Students are appreciating the sense of time and place. They also get the family dynamics in the times.
I have fallen for Wild Girls by Pat Murphy, an intimate portrait of girls on the cusp that asks the question, during the 1970?s, why do we have to give up being imaginative strong girls in order to grow up?
Books that I am giving as presents this year- Unwind by Neal Shusterman, not since Grounding of Group Six has their been a YA novel with such an immoral premise. Page turning horror.
New Policeman- For my fantasy readers. Yes, we are running out of time and one boy must save us.
For the kids in my family who have read through all of Orson Scott Card, The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafpr-Mbachu, The second in a series but stands alone.
Lisa Von Drasek Children's Librarian Bank Street College of Education School for Children Pre-K- 8 610 West 112th St NY NY 10025
lisav at bnkst.edu
212 875 4452
Received on Fri 07 Dec 2007 07:13:37 AM CST
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:13:37 -0500
from youngest to oldest-
For reading aloud to threes and fours- Trucks Roll, George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Craig Frazier. a rollicking read aloud with fill
-the-page graphically rendered trucks containing absurd cargo. Our kids chime in on the repetitive language and beg for me to start at the beginning again seconds after I announce The End.
Speaking of absurd, inheriting the cartoon interactive mantle from Pigeon Drives a Bus is Where will Fat Cat Sit? This book had them literally rolling in the aisles.
Best easy reads- Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie books, irresistible. and Dog and Bear by Vaccaro Seeger favorite non fiction- Nic Bishop does it again with Spiders, clear factual information supporting stunning photographs. And I don't even like spiders.
What we are reading for our mock Newbery, 5th and 6th graders Elijah Buxton- feedback- hard to get into but for the kids who persevered quite rewarding Crooked Kind of Perfect- sleeper of the year, both boys and girls report that it was laugh aloud funny with characters that they could relate to.
True Meaning of Smek Day- Both ends of the spectrum. Kids are getting the sophisticated satire and are enjoying the humor as well as the page turning quest tale. Students who are well-read in science fiction and fantasy are having a great time pointing out intertextual connections. I was astonished by the consistency of the boov speaking English with a consistent syntax of a second language learner. It was those kinds of details that made me fall in love with this book and reread it again and again.
One class of 5th graders adopted No Talking by Andrew Clements as their very own. Everyone read it and the buzz has spread down to 4th and 3rd graders. I?ll never have enough copies.
Starting to get reports back on The Wednesday Wars. Students are appreciating the sense of time and place. They also get the family dynamics in the times.
I have fallen for Wild Girls by Pat Murphy, an intimate portrait of girls on the cusp that asks the question, during the 1970?s, why do we have to give up being imaginative strong girls in order to grow up?
Books that I am giving as presents this year- Unwind by Neal Shusterman, not since Grounding of Group Six has their been a YA novel with such an immoral premise. Page turning horror.
New Policeman- For my fantasy readers. Yes, we are running out of time and one boy must save us.
For the kids in my family who have read through all of Orson Scott Card, The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafpr-Mbachu, The second in a series but stands alone.
Lisa Von Drasek Children's Librarian Bank Street College of Education School for Children Pre-K- 8 610 West 112th St NY NY 10025
lisav at bnkst.edu
212 875 4452
Received on Fri 07 Dec 2007 07:13:37 AM CST