Aunt Minnie McGranahan

Aunt Minnie McGranahan
Author: Mary Skillings Prigger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618604883

The townspeople in St. Clere, Kansas, are sure it will never work out when neat and orderly spinster, Minnie McGranahan, takes her nine orphaned nieces and nephews into her home in 1920. Full color.

Aunt Minnie and the Twister

Aunt Minnie and the Twister
Author: Mary Skillings Prigger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780618111367

After a tornado rearranges their Kansas house, Aunt Minnie and the nine nieces and nephews living with her add on a much-needed new room.

A to Zoo

A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1657
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440834350

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators

The Essential Guide to Children's Books and Their Creators
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 564
Release:
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780547348896

Upon publication, Anita Silvey’s comprehensive survey of contemporary children’s literature, Children’s Books and Their Creators, garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists interested in the world of writing for children. Now The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators assembles the best of that volume in one handy, affordable reference, geared specifically to parents, educators, and students. This new volume introduces readers to the wealth of children’s literature by focusing on the essentials — the best books for children, the ones that inform, impress, and, most important, excite young readers. Updated to include newcomers such as J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket and to cover the very latest on publishing and educational trends, this edition features more than 475 entries on the best-loved children’s authors and illustrators, numerous essays on social and historical issues, thirty personal glimpses into craft by well-known writers, illustrators, and critics, and invaluable reading lists by category. The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators summarizes the canon of contemporary children’s literature, in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for or working with children.

The Read-Aloud Handbook

The Read-Aloud Handbook
Author: Jim Trelease
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-07-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1440628521

A New York Times and million copy bestseller, the classic handbook on reading aloud to children—revised and updated Recommended by “Dear Abby”, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for three decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research, The Read-Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategies—and the reasoning behind them—for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.

Tornadoes

Tornadoes
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2006-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822547147

An introduction to the devastation that can be caused by tornadoes.

Personalized Reading

Personalized Reading
Author: Nancy Hobbs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1598845233

This guidebook provides teachers and librarians with methods for collaboratively teaching elementary students to select books they will enjoy and which will further their personal growth and information literacy. Motivating young students to read is instrumental for the development of strong information literacy and communication skills, as well as for building a lifelong habit of seeking information and enjoyment through written materials. The authors of Personalized Reading: It's a Piece of PIE are three highly experienced teachers, one of whom is a school librarian. This text describes the steps of the PIE program in detail, including chapters on selecting a book, reading it, writing about it, and extending beyond that title. Utilizing the PIE program will teach students to make selections at an appropriate reading level, expand from choosing titles in the same genre or from the same author, and recognize and abandon a book of low interest to them. Within each chapter are explanations of the theories behind each step and practical ideas that teachers and librarians can implement collaboratively in the classroom and library.

Choices & Changes in Life, School, and Work, Grade 2-4

Choices & Changes in Life, School, and Work, Grade 2-4
Author: Jim Charkins
Publisher: Council for Economic Educat
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781561835805

This publication contains complete instructions for teaching the lessons in Choices and Changes, Grades 24. The Choices and Changes series is designed to help students understand how the U.S. economy works and their roles in the economy as consumers, savers and workers.