Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dr. Burke
April 6, 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Criteria:
1. Picture Books:
a. Little to no words
b. Bright colorful pictures
c. Something the students can relate to
2. Novels:
a. Chapters
b. Some humor
c. Easy words relating to the reading level
3. Nonfiction:
a. Factual information
b. Historical
c. Relatable
4. Poetry:
a. Can rhyme
b. Makes sense to the student/reader
c. Relatable to what the children want to read and what they are doing in their lives
Picture Books
1. Waiting Is Not Easy!
Author: Mo Willems
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Publication year: 2014
Reading level: Kindergarten-First Grade
Summary: This book is an easy read for children because it has pictures that go along
with the words that are on the pages. The text is also limited to one-two thought bubbles for each
page, this makes it easy for the students to comprehend what is being said on each page. This
book is good for students because it can relate to what students may be going through and
teaching them valuable lessons that they are going to need to know as they get older.
Something Note-worthy: This book is a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book
Summary: This book provides humor and funny little stories behind every crayon and
what they have been through and what they have experienced. This book makes the crayons
come to life and shows that things have feelings and that the feelings need to be taken into
consideration when you are doing things. You can hurt other peoples feelings and theres things
that you need to do to make them feel better and to make them feel loved.
6. Owl Moon
Author: Jane Yolen
Illustrator: Jon Schoenherr
Publisher: Philomel Books
Publication Year: 1987
Childrens Novels:
1. Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Illustrator: John Tenniel
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Publication year: 1943
Reading Level: Second-third grade
Summary: This chapter book goes into complete detail about everything that Alice is
going through and what she experiences when she falls down the rabbit hole. This book
gives a fun little twist into the world that she experiences. This book teaches the students
about imagination and shows them that it is okay to have an imagination and to make
things fun. Imagination is the key behind teaching children to be creative and to come up
with things that is going to make their childhood fun and interesting.
Note-worthy: This book is 73 years old.
3. Hoot
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Illustrator:
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication year: 2002
Reading Level: Third-Fourth grade
Summary: This book is full of imagination and fun for kids to read. This story talks about
the main character Roy discovered a whole new life for himself that was fun and
enriching, he went on many adventures that strengthened him as a young boy and made
his move to Florida more enjoyable. Roy learns a lot about imagination, this book
reminds me about Bridge to Terabithia because in that book they had to keep the land of
Terabithia a secret from everyone.
Note-worthy: Newberry Honor Book
4. Stargirl
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Illustrator:
5. Fingerprints of You
Author: Kristen-Paige Madonia
Illustrator: Terry Ribera
Publisher: Simona and Schuster
Publication Year: 2012
Reading level: Fourth-fifth grade
Summary: This book is about a girl and her mom who have moved around so much
because of the relationships that her mom has had that have turned out to be bad. This
story leads into a journey of Lemon going to find her dad that she doesnt have a
relationship with anymore. Lemon has also found out that she is pregnant so she will
have to fill in all the gaps that she has to fill in before the baby arrives so she doesnt
make the same mistakes that her mother made when Lemon was younger.
risks that she can. Jeremy receives a wooden box on her front porch and they have to find
the keys to reveal what is on the inside.
8. Echo
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic
Publication Year: 2015
Reading Level: Sixth-seventh grade
Summary: Three different kids coke together in an unexpected way by finding an unusual
object that they start to learn about together. This object brings the kids together and
teaches them about friendship and about how to become better individuals.
Note-worthy: Newberry award winner
Summary: Joey is a child who has ADD and he got new medication before his summer
had started. He usually spends time with his father and have quality time with him but
instead he stayed at home with his mother and ended up losing control of everything.
Everything that he was doing was wrong and his mother didnt appreciate it at all.
Note-worthy: Newberry Honor Book
Nonfiction Novels
1. Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem.
Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
Illustrator:
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication Year: 2011
Reading Level: Fourth-fifth grade
Summary: This book is based on the events that happened during the Salem witch
trials. This book should through some witnesses point of view what happened during
the horrific events that happened during the events that were laid out during the times
that the witch killings were going on.
Note-worthy: The Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
3. Cleopatra
Author: Teresa Crayder
Illustrator:
Publisher: Longmans Canada Limited
Publication Year: 1969
Reading Level: Third-fifth grade
Summary: This book is about how Cleopatra started her life before she became well
known. This book talks about how she fell in love and how she wanted to be all that
she could be for the boy that she fell for. Then it goes on to talk about how she starts
her life and how she goes about her life and handles what is thrown her way.
4. Marie Antoinette
Author: Bernardine Kielty
Illustrator: Douglas Gorsline
Publisher: Random House
Publication Year: 1955
Reading Level: Fourth-fifth grade
Summary: I think this book would be better for older students because the English is
old English so the students wouldnt be able to understand it that well and may have
questions about it. This book goes into detail with the events that unfolded during
Maries life. It shows how she handled the situations that were put in her way.
Note-worthy: This book is a classic, it is 61 years old.
Poetry
1. Heres a Little Poem
Author: Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters
Illustrator: Polly Dunbar
3. Every Thing On it
Author: Shel Silverstein
Illustrator: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2011
Reading Level: First-second grade
Summary: These poems have humor behind them that some kids may find funny and
some kids may not. These poems can sometimes be dull to some students, therefore
means that some students may not understand right away what is going on throughout the
poems. But on another hand, these poems are good for students to read because they see
that poems dont always have to rhyme and they dont always have to make sense to what
is going on. There are many poems that will leave people questioning what is going on
and this just so happens to be those types of poems.
5. Cactus Poems
Author: Frank Asch
Illustrator: Ted Levin
Publisher: Gulliver Green
Publication Year: 1998
Reading Level: Second-third grade
Summary: These poems talk about plants as well as the animals that live the desert life. It
brings the animals and the plants to life so that the children can have fun while learning
about different things that are in nature. When they read these poems they will get humor
out of the way these poems are written and the way the animals and plants survive in
their natural habitat.