Complete Picture Book List

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Using Picture Books To Introduce or Teach Skills
Compiled by: Jana Starnes Boswell Elementary School Lebanon, Missouri jstarnes@lebanon.k12.mo.us (Updated 11-2-2010)
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Table of Contents
Math.3-6 Science.7-9 Social Studies..10-14 Language Arts..15-39 Parts of Speech...32-33 Writing Skills..34-36 Genres.36-37 Tales37-39 Multicultural.40-41 Prejudice/Tolerance..41 Getting Along42 Grandparents/Elderly42 Death.43 Ecology.43 Music.43 Art.43 Character Education..44-50 Holidays/Seasonal.51-54 Family...54 Friendship.54 Humor...54 Picture Book Biographies.55 Bibliography of Professional Resources...56-57 Alphabetical List - Language Arts by Title.. 58-64
Math
Addition/Subtraction: Domino Addition Long 513.2 Great Math Tattle Battle - Bowen Jelly Beans for Sale McMillan 332.4 (addition, money) Leaping Lizards Murphy 513.2 (counting by 5s and 10s) Mission: Addition Leedy 513.2 More M&Ms Math McGrath 513 (Add, Subtract, Multiply, & Divide) Panda Math: Learning about Subtraction Nagda 513.2 Ready, Set, Hop- Murphy (also teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Shark Swimathon Murphy 513.2 (using tally marks; addition; 2-digit subtraction) Skittles Riddles Math McGrath 372.7 (Number sentences, fractions) Subtraction Action Leedy 513.2 Capacity & Liquid Measurement: Room for Ripley Murphy 530.8 Counting: Grapes of Math Tang 793.7 (math riddles, higher level counting) Kings Commissioners Friedman (by 2s, 5s, etc.) Leaping Lizards Murphy 513.2 (by 5s and 10s) Math Potatoes Tang 793.74 (math riddles, grouping numbers) M&Ms Counting Book McGrath 513.2 Spots: Counting Creatures from Sky to Sea Lesser 513.2 Warthogs in the Kitchen Edwards Critical Thinking: Annos Hat Tricks Anno Division: Divide and Ride Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book) 513.2 Doorbell Rang - Hutchins Great Divide Dodds Kings Commissioners Friedman One Hundred Hungry Ants - Pinczes Remainder of One Pinczes Two Ways to Count to Ten Dee 398.2 Equivalent Concepts: Equal Shmequal: a Math Adventure Krall Estimation/Rounding: Betcha! Murphy 519.5 Coyotes All Around - Murphy 519.5 Great Estimations Goldstone 519.5
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Fractions: Apple Fractions Pallotta 513.2 Doorbell Rang Hutchins Full House Dodds 513.2 Give Me Half! - Murphy 513.2 Hersheys Fractions Book Pallotta 513.2 Lions Share, Tale of Halving Cake and Eating It, Too - McElligott Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents Gifford 513.2 Fraction Fun Adler 513.2 Fractions Steinecker 513.2 Making Fractions King 513.2 Polar Bear Math: Learning about Fractions -Nagda 513.2 Geometry: Elephants on Board MacDonald Grandfather Tangs Story (Tangrams) - Tompett Greedy Triangle Burns Hamster Champs Murphy (Measuring angles with a protractor) 516 Sir Cumference and the First Round Table Neuschwander 516 Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland Neuschwander 516 Whats Your Angle, Pythagoras?- Ellis 516.22 Graphs: Great Graph Contest Leedy Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger Nagda 518 Large Numbers: Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? Wells A Million FishMore or Less McKissack On Beyond a Million Schwartz 513.5 Measurement: Counting on Frank - Clement How Tall, How Short, How Faraway Adler 530.8 Inchworm and a Half - Pinczes Millions to Measure Schwartz 530.8 Super Sand Castle Saturday Murphy 530.8 Twelve Snails to One Lizard - Hightower Circumference: Librarian Who Measured the Earth Lasky 921 Era Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland Neuschwander 516 Area & Perimeter: Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! Burns
Money; Economics: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday Viorst If You Made a Million Schwartz 332.042 Isabels Car Wash - Bair Jelly Beans for Sale McMillan 332.4 Lemons and Lemonade Loewen 338.5 Market Days Jaffrey 381 Markets Bendick 380.1 Pigs Will Be Pigs - Axelrod Multiplication: Annos Magic Seeds Anno 513 Annos Mysterious Multiplying Jar Anno 512 Arctic Fives Arrive Pinczes Bats on Parade Appelt Best of Times Tang 513.2 One Grain of Rice Demi 398.2 Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do Murphy 513.2 Two Ways to Count to Ten Dee 398.2 Patterns: Bat Jamboree - Appelt Bats on Parade Appelt One Grain of Rice Demi Two of Everything Hong Percentages: Grizzly Gazette Murphy 513.2 Place Value: Earth Day Hooray! Murphy 513 A Place for Zero LoPresti 513 Sir Cumference and All the Kings Tens - Neuschwander Probability: No Fair! - Holtzman Problem Solving: Arithme-Tickle 513 Lew Great Math Tattle Battle - Bowen Grapes of Math Tang 793.7 Math Curse Scieszka Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem-Solving Tang 510 Riddle-iculous Math Holub 818 Safari Park Murphy (finding the missing element) 512.9
Ratio and/or Proportion: If Dogs Were Dinosaurs Schwartz 513.2 If You Hopped Like a Frog Schwartz 513.2 Small Numbers: Little Numbers and Pictures that Show Just How Little They Are Packard 513.2 Time: Chimp Math: Learning about Time from a Baby Chimpanzee Nagda 529 Pigs on a Blanket - McGinley-Nally (teaching ideas in back of book) A Second is a Hiccup Hutchins General Math: Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems Hopkins 811 G is for Googol Schwartz 510 Monster Who Did My Math - Schnitzlein Only One Harshman 513.2 You Can, Toucan, Math Adler 511.3
Science
Bats: Stellaluna Cannon Dust: Stars beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust Sayre Earthquakes: Great Shaking Carson (Missouri 1811) Ecology: Just a Dream Van Allsburg Miss Rumphius Cooney Someday a Tree - Bunting Electricity: My Light - Bang Food Chains/Food Webs: Mojave Siebert Sierra - Siebert Tadpoles Promise - Ross General: Science Detectives: How Scientists Solved Six Real-Life Mysteries 501 Science Fair Day -Plourde Science Fresh Squeezed! 41 Thirst-for-Knowledge-Quenching Poems - Shields 811 Science Verse Scieszka & Smith Glaciers: Glaciers: Natures Icy Caps Harrison 551.31 Icebergs and Glaciers Simon 551.3 Groundhogs: Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather Koscielniak Groundhog Gets His Say Swallow Groundhog Stays Up Late Cuyler Its Up to You, Griffin Pickford Insects: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective - Biedrzycki Diary of a Fly - Cronin Owls: Owl Moon Yolen
White Owl, Barn Owl - Davies Plants: Life and Times of an Apple Micucci 634 Old Elm Speaks, Tree Poems George Popcorn Book de Paola 641.6 Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden - Levenson Reason for a Flower - Heller Sky Tree Locker Someday a Tree - Bunting Tiny Seed - Carle A Tree is Growing Dorros Trees: The First Forest Giles Rocks/Minerals: Daves Down-to-Earth Rock Shop Murphy 511.3 Seasons: Now it is Winter Spinelli The Stranger Van Allsburg This Years Garden Rylant Snakes: Verdi -Cannon Space: Call Me Ahnightio - Conrad (about a famous meteorite) Spiders: Diary of a Spider - Cronin Like Jake and Me Jukes Snow: Snow Shuelivitz Snowflake Bentley - Martin Story of Snow: the Science of Winters Wonder Cassino 551.57 Sun: My Light - Bang Temperate Biome: Story of Jumping Mouse Steptoe 398.2 Trees: Redwoods Chin 585.5
Water: Atlantic - Karas A Drop of Water Wick 546 Water Dance - Locker Weather: The Big Storm Hiscock 551.55 Cloud Book de Paola 551.5 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett Feel the Wind Dorros 551.5 Dor Flood Calhoun (1993 Midwest floods) Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather Koscielniak (Groundhog Day) Its Up to You, Griffin Pickford (Groundhog Day) On the Same Day in March, a Tour of the Worlds Weather Singer 551.4 River Friendly, River Wild Kurtz (poems, flood in SD) Snow - Shulevitz Snowflake Bentley - Martin The Storm Harshman The Storm Book Zoloto Thunder Cake Polacco W is for Wind, a Weather Alphabet Michaels 551.5 Wetlands: Heron Street Turner
SOCIAL STUDIES Early Exploration: Animals Marco Polo Saw Markle 921 Pol The Discovery of the Americas - Maestro Encounter - Yolen Native Americans: Annie and the Old One Miles Beyond the Ridge Goble D is for Drum Shoulders 970.004 Gift of the Sacred Dog Goble Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Goble Her Seven Brothers Goble 398.2 Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Legend of the Indian Paintbrush De Paola 398.2 Long Night Moon - Rylant Many Nations, an Alphabet of Native America Bruchac 970 Minnow and Rose - Young Mystic Horse- Goble 398.2 Story of Jumping Mouse Steptoe 398.2 Thunder on the Plains Robbins 599.64 Pilgrims: Molly Bannaky (1603) - McGill On the Mayflower, Voyage of the Ships Apprentice & a Passenger Girl Waters P is for Pilgrim, A Thanksgiving Alphabet - Crane 394.26 Pilgrims of Plimoth Sewall 974.4 Samuel Eatons Day - Waters Sarah Mortons Day - Waters Stranded at Plimoth Plantation Bowen 973.2 Tapenums Day - Waters Three Young Pilgrims Harness Colonial: Bakers Dozen, A Colonial American Tale Forest Escape of Oney Judg; Martha Washingtons Slave Finds Freedom McCully Horses Tale: a Colonial Williamsburg Adventure - Lubner Our Colonial Year Harness 973.2 A Picture Book of George Washington - Adler Revolutionary War: Charlotte Lunn 921 Hai Dangerous Crossing Krensky Farmer George Plants a Nation Thomas 921 George Did It Jurmain 921
George vs. George Schanzer 973.3 George Washingtons Teeth Chandra 973.4 Great Big Wagon That Rang, How the Liberty Bell was Saved - Slate Hand in Hand: An American History through Poetry Hopkins 811 John, Paul, George & Ben - Smith Katies Trunk Turner Let it Begin Here! Lexington & Concord Fradin 973.3 Paul Reveres Ride Longfellow 811 Redcoats & Petticoats - Kirkpatrick Samuels Choice Berleth Scarlet Stockings Spy - Noble This Time, Tempe Wick? - Gauch Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps Barner Yankee Doodle America: The Spirit of 1776 from A to Z Minor 973.3 1793/1913: A Penny in the Road Precek Lewis and Clark Expedition: How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis & Clark Schanzer 917.804 I Am Sacajawea, I Am York Murphy 920 War of 1812: Dolley Madison Saves George Washington Brown 921 Gold Rush: Gold Fever - Kay Railroad Race (1863-1869): Iron Horses - Kay Civil War: Abraham Lincoln Comes Home Burleigh 973.709 Blue and the Gray - Bunting Cecils Story - Lyon Ghosts of the Civil War - Harness Lincoln and Me Borden Pink and Say Polacco Red Legs, a Drummer Boy of the Civil War - Lewin Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Fleming Slavery/Underground Railroad: Aunt Harriets Underground Railroad in the Sky - Ringgold Freedom Ship Rappaport Henrys Freedom Box - Levine Moses, When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Weatherford
Netties Trip South Turner Night Boat to Freedom Raven Secret to Freedom - Vaughan Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt -Smucker Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Hopkinson The Wagon Johnston Westward Movement: Buffalo Storm - Applegate Cassies Journey, Going West in the 1860s - Harvey Dandelions Bunting Elephant Quilt - Lowell Going West Van Leeuwen Grandmother Essies Covered Wagon Williams (Missouri) How to Get Rich on the Oregon Trail - Reed I Have Heard of a Land Thomas Minnow and Rose, an Oregon Trail Story - Young Papa and the Pioneer Quilt Van Leeuwen Prairie Primer A-Z Stutson Prairie Alphabet Moore (modern times) Red Flower Goes West Turner Seasons Sewn: a year in Patchwork - Paul Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt - Smucker Wagons West- Gerrard The Way West, Journal of a Pioneer Woman Schlissel 917.8 Orphan Trains (1850s-1920s) Train to Somewhere - Bunting Dust Bowl/Depression: Dust Bowl Booth The Gardener - Stewart Leahs Pony - Friedrich The Babe & I Adler Complete History of One Location: Barn - Atwell Heron Street - Turner House on Maple Street - Pryor River Ran Wild - Cherry Tree in the Trail Holling Tuttles Red Barn Michelson Effects of Progress: Heron Street - Turner Letting Swift River Go - Yolen
Map Skills / Geography: Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry Around the World, Whos Been Here? - George Geography from A to Z Knowlton Go, Go America Yaccarino 973 Mapping Pennys World Leedy Fic Lee Picture Book of the U.S.A. Goodman Scrambled States of America Keller Economics: Annos Magic Seeds Anno 513 Lemons and Lemonade: a Book about Supply and Demand Loewen 338.5 Ox-Cart Man Hall Government: Ghosts of the White House Harness Grace for President - DiPucchio House Mouse, Senate Mouse Barnes Madam President - Smith Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse Barnes Otto Runs for President - Wells So You Want to Be President St. George Woodrow for President Barnes Woodrow, the White House Mouse Barnes WWII: Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki The Bracelet Uchida The Butterfly - Polacco Cello of Mr. O Cutler Heroes Mochizuki (Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team) Unbreakable Code - Hunter (Navajo code talkers) Yellow Star, the Legend of King Christian X of Denmark - Deedy In My Pocket Sim Vietnam Memorial: The Wall - Bunting Missouri: Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy) - Kerley Grandma Essies Covered Wagon Williams Heartland Siebert How to Draw Missouris Sights and Symbols - Kuedee The Great Shaking Carson Langstons Train Ride - Burleigh
S is for Show Me: a Missouri Alphabet Young Stand Straight, Ella Kate - Klise Famous Quotes: Who Said That? Famous Americans Speak - Burleigh Newspaper Headlines: Dateline: Troy Fleischman Symbols of America: Uncle Sam and Old Glory, Symbols of America West Black History/Civil Rights: A Band of Angels Hopkinson As Good as Anybody Michelson 920 Dear Mr. Rosenwald Weatherford Duke Ellington - Pinkney Freedom Summer - Wiles Goin Someplace Special McKissack Jackies Bat Lorbiecki My Brother Martin, a Sister Remembers Farris 921 Riding to Washington - Swain The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields Miller Vinnie and Abraham Fitzgerald 921 Rea Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Lasky We Troubled the Waters Shange 811 City Life: Town Mouse, Country Mouse Brett 398.24 Uptown - Collier
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LANGUAGE ARTS ABC Books: A is for Salad Lester Absolutely Awful Alphabet Gerstein 428.1 (alliteration) Animalia Base Antics Hepworth 421 ABC, Letters in the Library Farmer 027 L is for Library - Terry Many Nations, an Alphabet of Native Americans Bruchac 970 Miss Spiders ABC - Kirk Old Black Fly Aylesworth Prairie Alphabet - Bannatyne-Cugnet 421 Prairie Primer A-Z Stutson Q is for Duck Elting Tomorrows Alphabet Shannon 411 Wacky Wedding Edwards What Pete Ate A-Z - Kalman Alliteration: Absolutely Awful Alphabet Gerstein (ABC book) Animalia - Base Dinorella - Edwards Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish - Obligado Four Famished Foxes Edwards M is for Mischief Ashman Plump and Perky Turkey Bateman (irony, parallelism) Some Smug Slug - Edwards Wacky Wedding - Edwards What Pete Ate from A Z Kalman Whitefish Will Rides Again! Yorinks (hyperbole, simile, inference, oxymoron) Worrywarts Edwards Anagrams: Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams Agee 793.734 Author Study: Bunting, Eve De Paola, Tomie Henkes, Kevin Polacco, Patricia Rylant, Cynthia Steig, William Van Allsburg, Chris
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Cause & Effect: Across the Stream - Ginsburg Comets Nine Lives - Brett Encounter Yolen (foreshadow, metaphor, point of view, inference, Columbus) If YouTake a Mouse to the Movies Numeroff (personification, prediction) If You Give a Moose a Muffin Numeroff (personification, prediction) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Numeroff (personification, prediction) If You Give a Pig a Pancake Numeroff (personification, prediction) Mitten, The Brett (sequencing) Napping House Wood (visualization) River Friendly, River Wild Kurtz (imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia) Sierra Siebert (point of view, mountains, animals) Thats Good! Thats Bad! Cuyler (verb choice, onomatopoeia, adjectives) Where the Wild Things Are Sendak (plot, story sequence) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears Aardema 398.2 (inference) Why the Chicken Crossed the Road Macaulay Character Traits: Amazing Grace Hoffman (strong theme) Amos & Boris Steig (strong theme) An Angel for Solomon Singer Rylant (irony, questioning, symbol) Chrysanthemum Henkes (strong theme, irony, prediction, self-worth, text/self) Crow Boy Yashima Gingerbread Cowboy Squires 398.21 (parody) Like Jake and Me Jukes (similes, metaphors, setting, fact/fiction, wolf spiders) Lillys Purple Plastic Purse Henkes Lillys Big Day Henkes (strong theme, text/self) Miss Rumphius Cooney (ecology, visualization) My Great-aunt Arizona Houston 921 Hug (compare/contrast, text/self) Odd Velvet Whitcomb (strong theme) Olivia Falconer Pain and the Great One Blume (point of view, text/self) Pumpkin Runner Arnold (perseverance) Rag Coat Mills (strong ending, inference, prediction) The Relatives Came Rylant (memorable language, personal narrative, strong beginning, voice) Song and Dance Man Ackerman (simile/metaphor, elderly) True Story of the Three Little Pigs Scieszka (parody, point of view) When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant (personal narrative, point of view, text/self) Compare/Contrast: Cinderella Perault (compare to other versions) Little Red Riding Hood (compare to other versions) My Great-Aunt Arizona Houston (character traits, text/self) My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother - Polacco
Stellaluna Cannon (bats/birds, fact and fiction) Elements of a Story: Story with Pictures Kanninen (satire) See specific elements to be taught Fact/Fiction: Diary of a Worm Cronin (personification, onomatopoeia, voice) Like Jake and Me Jukes (foreshadow, similes, metaphors, character traits, setting, wolf spiders) Perfect Puppy for Me OConnor & Hartland Popcorn Book - de Paola 641.6 Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies Dewey 597.96 Stellaluna Cannon (compare/contrast bats/birds) Turtles Penguin Day Gorbachev (penguins, strong ending) Verdi Cannon (snakes) Flashback: Alexander; Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday Viorst (money) Home Place Dragonwagon (imagery, memorable language, word choice) Miss Rumphius Cooney (ecology) Wreck of the Zephyr Van Allsburg (inference) Foreshadow: Annie and the Wild Animals Brett Bootie Barker Bites Bottner (inference, bullies) Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella Lowell (parody, simile) Come On, Rain! Hesse (hyperbole, imagery, simile, metaphor, paradox, weather) Encounter Yolen (metaphor, foreshadowing, point of view) Fiddlin Sam Dengler (Missouri Ozarks, inference) Full Belly Bowl Aylesworth (irony) Gift of the Crocodile: a Cinderella Story Sierra 398.2 (irony) Grandfather Buffalo Arnosky (inference) Grandfathers Journey Say (irony) Honest to Goodness Truth McKissack Just Plain Fancy Polacco (prediction, Amish) Just One Flick of a Finger Lorbiecki (bullies, inference, simile, metaphor) Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Like Jake and Me Jukes (similes, metaphors, character traits, setting, fact/fiction, wolf spiders) Memory String Bunting (imagery, inference, simile) Million FishMore or Less McKissack (hyperbole, inference) Night Tree Bunting Passage to Freedom: the Sugihara Story Mochizuki 921 Sug (point of view) Redcoats and Petticoats Kirkpatrick (inference, Revolutionary War) Ruby the Copycat Rathman (self-esteem) Sachiko Means Happiness Sakai (inference, Alzheimers) Secret-Keeper Coombs (imagery, inference, irony, simile, metaphor)
Someday a Tree Bunting (inference, text/world) Strega Nona de Paola Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig (imagery, personification, symbol, question) Voices in the Park Browne (inference, point of view) Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian -Deedy (inference, irony, simile, symbol) Homonyms: Eight Ate, a Feast of Homonym Riddles Terban 818 Why the Banana Split Walton (word choice) Homophones: A Chocolate Moose for Dinner Gwynne 428.1 Hyperbole: Come On, Rain! Hesse (foreshadow, imagery, metaphor, paradox, simile, weather) Dona Flora - Mora Fortunately Charlip Kate and the Beanstalk Osborne 398.2 (inference, simile) Lies and Other Tall Tales - Myers Little Red Cowboy Hat Lowell 398.2 (inference, onomatopoeia, parody, simile) Million Fish More or Less McKissack (inference, foreshadow) Thunder Rose Nolen Where the Wild Things Are Sendak (inference, cause/effect, plot, story sequence) Whitefish Will Rides Again! Yorinks (alliteration, inference, oxymoron, simile) Idioms: Amelia Bedelia - Parish Dog Breath Pilkey Even More Parts - Arnold In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms - Terban 428.1 Monkey Business - Edwards My Momma Likes to Say Brennan-Nelson 398.9 Theres a Frog in my Throat - Leedy Imagery: Across the Blue Pacific Borden (inference, simile, parallelism) Angel City Johnston (inference, metaphor, simile) Black Book of Colors Cottin Come On, Rain Hesse (foreshadow, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, paradox, weather) Cloud Book - dePaola Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett (sequence, tall tale, compound words) Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War Turner (point of view, simile) Fireflies Brinkloe (personal narrative, inference, memorable language, strong theme) Golem Wisniewski 398.21 (foreshadowing, inference, irony, paradox, simile) Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Goble (simile, Native Americans)
Home Place Dragonwagon (flashback, memorable language, word choice) Memory String Bunting (foreshadow, inference, simile, personal narrative) Miss Rumphius Cooney (character traits, ecology, visualization) Night Boat to Freedom Raven (inference, metaphor, simile) Night in the Country Rylant (strong beginning, text/world, visualization) Owl Moon Yolen (mood, memorable language, simile, metaphor, personal narrative) Raising Yoders Barn Yolen (inference, metaphor, simile, personification, parallelism, Amish) River Friendly, River Wild Kurtz (simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia) Salamander Room Mazer Saturday and Teacakes Laminack (family, grandparents) Secret-Keeper Coombs (foreshadow, inference, irony, simile, metaphor) Sign Painter Say (inference, point of view) Smoky Night Bunting (strong theme, text/world) Snowflake Bentley Martin 921 Ben (simile, biography) Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy- Sams (winter) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig (foreshadow, personification, symbol) Thunder Rose Nolen (hyperbole, tall tale, vocabulary, adjectives) Up North at the Cabin Chall (simile, metaphor) Inference: Across the Alley Michelson (simile, metaphor, irony, point-of-view) Across the Blue Pacific Borden (simile, imagery, parallelism) Adele & Simon - McClintock Angel City Johnston ( imagery, metaphor, simile) Annie and the Old One Miles (Native Americans) Ant Bully Nickle (foreshadow, personification, point of view) Art Lesson DePaola (irony, personal narrative, text/self, main idea) Babe & I Adler (irony, personal narrative, voice) Bens Dream Van Allsburg Big, Bushy Mustache Soto Bootsie Barker Bites Bottner (foreshadowing, bullies) Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type Cronin (irony, symbolism) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Johnston 398.2 (parody, simile) Dandelions Bunting (Westward Movement) Days Work Bunting (honesty, integrity, prediction) Encounter Yolen (cause/effect, foreshadow, metaphor, point of view, Columbus) Fiddlin Sam Dengler (foreshadow, Missouri Ozarks) Fireflies Brinkloe (imagery, memorable language, strong theme, personal narrative) Fly Away Home Bunting (personal narrative, text/world, relationships, homeless) Garden of Abdul Gasazi Van Allsburg (prediction) Gardener, The Stewart Gleam and Glow - Bunting Golem Wisniewski (foreshadow, imagery, irony, paradox, simile) Grandfather Buffalo Arnosky (foreshadow) Hogula, Dread Pig of Night - Gralley How Many Days to America? Bunting (questioning) Just One Flick of a Finger Lorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, simile, metaphor)
Kate and the Beanstalk Osborne 398.2 (simile, hyperbole) Knots on a Counting Rope Martin (foreshadow, questioning, simile, metaphor, visualize) Little Red Cowboy Hat Lowell 398.2 (hyperbole, onomatopoeia, simile, parody) Lost and Found Jeffers (irony) Memory String Bunting (foreshadow, imagery, simile, personal narrative) Mirette on the High Wire McCully (courage, synthesis) Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom - Weatherford Night Boat to Freedom Raven (imagery, metaphor, simile) One Green Apple - Bunting Possum Magic Fox Raft, The LaMarche (personal narrative) Rag Coat Mills (character traits, strong ending, prediction) Raising Yoders Barn Yolen (imagery, metaphor, simile, personification, parallelism, Amish) Red Flower Goes West Turner (simile, metaphor, symbol, Western Movement) Redcoats and Petticoats Kirkpatrick (foreshadow, Revolutionary War) Sachiko Means Happiness Sakai (foreshadow, Alzheimers) Secret-Keeper Coombs (foreshadow, imagery, irony, simile, metaphor) Shes Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head Lasky (synthesis) Shoes from Grandpa - Fox Sign Painter Say (imagery, point of view) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Spinelli (irony) Someday a Tree Bunting (foreshadow) Stranger, The Van Allsburg (questioning, strong ending) Sweetest Fig Van Allsburg (irony, strong ending) Teammates Golenbock 796.3 (prejudice) Tight Times Hazen (mood, questioning) Too Many Tamales Soto (personal narrative, honesty) Voices in the Park Browne (foreshadow, point of view) Wall, The Bunting (personal narrative, text/world, questioning, Vietnam Memorial) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (personal narrative, prediction, character relationships, literacy) Where the Wild Things Are Sendak (hyperbole, cause/effect, plot, story sequence) White Dynamite and Curly Kidd Martin (mood) Whitefish Will Rides Again! Yorinks (alliteration, hyperbole, oxymoron, simile) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears Aardema 398.2 (cause/effect) Widows Broom Van Allsburg (questioning) Wreck of the Zephyr - Van Allsburg (flashback) Yellow Star: Legend of King Christian Deedy (foreshadow, irony, simile, symbol, inference) Irony: Across the Alley Michelson (simile, metaphor, inference, point-of-view) An Angel for Solomon Singer Rylant (symbol, character traits, symbol) Art Lesson de Paola (inference, personal narrative, text/self, main idea) Babe & I (inference, personal narrative, voice) Band of Angels Hopkinson Chrysanthemum Henkes (self-worth, character, strong theme, prediction, text/self) Click, Clack, Moo Cronin (inference, symbol)
Frog Prince Continued Scieszka (main idea, plot) Full Belly Bowl Aylesworth (foreshadow) Gift of the Crocodile: A Cinderella Story Sierra (foreshadow) Golden Coin - Ada Golem Wisniewski 398.21 (foreshadow, imagery, inference, paradox, simile) Grandfathers Journey Say (foreshadow,) Julius the Baby of the World Henkes (text/self) Lost and Found Jeffers (inference) Old Henry Blos (elderly, tolerance) Pig Tale - Oxenbury Plump and Perky Turkey Bateman (alliteration, parallelism) School Lunch Kelley Secret-Keeper Coombs (foreshadow, imagery, inference, simile, metaphor) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Spinelli (inference, prediction, plot) Sweetest Fig Van Allsburg (inference) Wemberly Worried - Henkes Yellow Star: the Legend of King Christian Deedy (inference, simile, symbol) Library: ABC Letters in the Library Farmer Bats at the Library - Lies Best Book to Read Bertram Boy who was Raised by Librarians - Morris (strong ending) Delilah D. at the Library - Willis Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians - Hopkins L is for Library - Terry Library Mouse Kirk Our Librarian Wont Tell Us Anything! Buzzeo Shelf Elf Helps Out Hopkins 372.4 That Book Woman Henson (literacy) Tomas and the Library Lady - Mora What Happened to Marions Book Berg What Marion Taught Willis Berg When Marion Copied Berg (plagiarism) Literacy: Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair Polacco Miss Smiths Incredible Storybook Garland More than Anything Else Bradby (black history) Mr. George Baker Hest (elderly, word choice, memorable language) Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco (text/self, strong beginning, personal narrative, point of view) That Book Woman Henson (libraries) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (inference, personal narrative, prediction, character relationships) Main Idea: Art Lesson dePaola (inference, irony, personal narrative, text/self)
Chair for my Mother Williams (personal narrative) Fables - Lobel Frog Prince Continued Scieszka (irony, plot) Great Kapok Tree Cherry (point of view, text/world) The Important Book Brown (supporting details) Joseph had a Little Overcoat Taback Keeping Quilt Polacco (personal narrative, point of view, symbolism, text/self) Miss Rumphius Cooney Mufaros Beautiful Daughters Steptoe (Cinderella) Stellaluna Cannon When Sophie Gets Angry Bang Memorable Language: All the Places to Love MacLaclan (strong ending, personal narrative, visualization) Come On, Rain! Hesse (foreshadow, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, imagery, weather) Fireflies! Brinckloe (strong theme, personal narrative, inference, imagery) Grandpas Face Greenfield (character relationships) Hello, Harvest Moon Fletcher (personification, simile/metaphor, visualization) Home Place Dragonwagon (flashback, imagery) Im in Charge of Celebrations - Baylor Jumanji Van Allsburg (prediction, story sequence) Letting Swift River Go Yolen (personal narrative) Lotus Seed Garland (questioning) Midnight in the Mountains Lawson My Mama Had a Dancing Heart Gray (character, mood, strong beginning/ending, personal narr.) Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street Schotter Owl Moon Yolen (mood, personal narrative, simile, metaphor, visualization) The Relatives Came Rylant (personal narrative, character traits, strong beginning, voice) Seashore Book Zolotow (mood, visualization) Sky Tree Locker Water Dance Locker (water cycle, point of view, visualization) Mood: Alexander and the TerribleDay - Viorst Earrings! Rylant Fly Away Home - Bunting Home Run Burleigh Just a Dream Van Allsburg My Mama had a Dancing Heart Gray (memorable language, strong beginning/ending, per. narr.) Owl Moon Yolen (memorable language, personal narrative, simile, metaphor, visualization) Relatives Came - Rylant Roxaboxen McLerran (personal narrative) Seashore Book Zolotow (memorable language) Sunshine Home Bunting (character relationships) Storm Book Zolotow Tight Times Hazen (inference, questioning)
Train to Somewhere Bunting (Orphan Train) White Dynamite and Curly Kid Martin (inference) Onomatopoeia: Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights - Miller Diary of a Worm Cronin (personification, fact/fiction, voice) Heron Street Turner (ecology, wetlands) Langstons Train Ride Burleigh (Civil Rights, MLK, Jr., Missouri poet) Lion and the Mouse Pinkney (wordless) Little Red Cowboy Hat Lowell (hyperbole, inference, parody, simile) My Light Bang (sun, electricity) Night Noises Fox (similes, elderly) Rattletrap Car Root River Friendly, River Wild Kurtz (imagery, simile, metaphor, cause/effect) Science Fair Day - Plourde Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story - Johnson Thats Good! Thats Bad! Cuyler (verb choice, cause/effect, adjectives) Three Silly Billies Palatini (parody) Were Going on a Bear Hunt - Rosen ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale - Gershator 398.24 (verbs) Oxymoron: Whitefish Will Rides Again! Yorinks (alliteration, hyperbole, inference, simile) Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons Agee 818 Palindromes: Go Hang a Salami! Im a Lasagna Hog! Agee 793.73 Too Hot to Hoot Terban 818 Parody: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective Biedrzycki (insects, point of view, simile, metaphor) Cindy Ellen: a Wild Western Cinderella Lowell 398.2 (foreshadowing, simile) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Johnston (inference, simile) Gingerbread Cowboy Squires (character traits) Jim and the Beanstalk Coward-McCann Little Red Cowboy Hat Lowell 398.2 (hyperbole, inference, onomatopoeia, simile) Romeow and Drooliet Laden (text to text) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig (foreshadowing, imagery) Three Silly Billies Palatini (onomatopoeia) Tough Cookie Wisniewski (satire, simile, point of view) True Story of the Three Little Pigs Scieszka (point of view)
Parallelism:
Across the Blue Pacific Borden (inference, simile, imagery) Plump and Perky Turkey Bateman (alliteration, irony)
Raising Yoders Barn Yolen (simile, metaphor, personification)
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Narratives/Personal Narratives: All the Places to Love MacLachlan (memorable language, strong ending, visualization) Apple Picking Time Slawson Art Lesson - de Paola (inference, irony, text/self, main idea) Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair Polacco (literacy) Aunt Flossies Hats Howard Babe & I Adler (inference, irony, voice) Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki (Japanese-Americans, WWII) Bracelet, The Uchida (Japanese-Americans, WWII) Canoe Days Paulsen (visualization, text/self) Chair for my Mother Williams Chicken Sunday Polacco Dogteam Paulsen (visualization) Fancy Nancy OConnor (vocabulary) Fireflies! Brinckloe (inference, memorable language, strong theme, imagery) Fishing in the Air - Creech Fly Away Home Bunting (homeless, inference, text/world, relationships) Grandfathers Journey Say (foreshadow, irony, prediction, questioning) Goin Someplace Special McKissack Going Home Bunting (text/self) Hickory Chair, The Fraustino Keeping Quilt Polacco (main idea, point of view, symbolism, text/self) Letting Swift River Go Yolen (memorable language) Memory Box Bahr (memorable language, character, strong theme) Memory String Bunting (simile, foreshadow, imagery, inference) Mirandy and Brother Wind McKissack (word choice) My Momma had a Dancing Heart Gray (mood, character, strong beginning, strong ending) My Prairie Christmas Harvey My Rotten Red-headed Older Brother Polacco (text/self, compare/contrast) Oliver Button is a Sissy de Paola (inference) Orange Shoes Noble (family, poverty) Owl Moon Yolen (mood, memorable language, simile, metaphor, visualization) Raft, The Lamarche (inference) Relatives Came, The Rylant (memorable language, character traits, strong beginning, voice) Roxaboxen McLerran (mood, text/self) Sailing Home Rand Tar Beach - Ringold Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco (literacy, text/self, strong beginning, point of view) Thunder Cake Polacco (strong beginning, visualization) Through Grandpas Eyes MacLachlan (point of view) Too Many Tamales Soto (honesty, inference, prediction) Two Mrs. Gibsons Igus Wall, The Bunting (Vietnam Memorial, text/world, questioning) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (prediction, inference, character relationships, literacy) When I was Young in the Mountains Bunting (character traits, point of view, text/self)
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Personification: Ant Bully Nickle (foreshadowing, inference, point of view) Call Me Ahnighito- Conrad (fact/fiction, meteorites, point of view, questioning) Cave Siebert (point of view) Diary of a Worm Cronin (onomatopoeia, fact/fiction, voice) Giving Tree Silverstein (point of view, strong theme, voice) Hello, Harvest Moon Fletcher (memorable language, visualization, simile/metaphor) If You Give a Pig a Pancake Numeroff (cause/effect, prediction) Mississippi Siebert (point of view, S.S., science, poetry) New York is English, Chattanooga is Creek - Raschka Officer Buckle and Gloria Rathmann Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig (symbolism, foreshadow, imagery, questioning) Velveteen Rabbit Williams Plot: Ming Lo Moves the Mountain Lobel Three Little Javelinas Lowell (text/text) Three Little Pigs (text/text) Where the Wild Things Are Sendak (cause/effect, hyperbole, inference, sequence) Use other fairy tales: traditional vs. modern version Point of View: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective Biedrzycki (insects, parody, simile, metaphor) Across the Alley Michelson (simile, metaphor ,irony, inference) Ant Bully Nickle (foreshadow, inference, personification) Barn Atwell Black and White - Macaulay Call Me Ahnighito Conrad (meteorites, personification, fact/fiction, questioning) Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War Turner (simile, imagery) Encounter Yolen (metaphor, inference, foreshadow, cause/effect, Columbus) First Day Jitters - Danneberg Giving Tree Silverstein (personification, strong theme, voice) George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides Schanzer 973.2 Great Kapok Tree Cherry (main idea, text/world) Great Shaking Carson (earthquakes, Missouri) Heartland Siebert (poetry) Help Me, Mr. Mutt - Stevens Hey, Little Ant - Hoose Keeping Quilt Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, symbolism, text/self) Mississippi Siebert (personification, poetry, S.S., science) My Light Bang (sun, electricity, onomatopoeia) Pain and the Great One Blume (character traits, text/self, siblings) Sign Painter Say (imagery, inference) Something to Tell the Grandcows Spinelli (Adm. Byrd, South Pole) Sophies Masterpiece - Spinelli Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco (literacy, strong beginning, personal narrative, text/self)
Through Grandpas Eyes MacLachlan (personal narrative) Tight Times Hazen (inference, mood, questioning) Tough Cookie Wisniewski (similes, metaphors, parody, satire) Toughest Cowboy Frank (prediction, similes, metaphors, strong ending, humor) True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Scieszka/Smith (parody) Thunder Cake Polacco (strong beginning) Two Bad Ants Van Allsburg (visualization, prediction) Voices in the Park Browne (foreshadow, inference) Water Dance Locker (memorable language, visualization, water cycle) Wall, The Bunting (personal narrative, questioning, text/world, Vietnam Memorial) When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant (personal narrative, character traits, text/self) Prediction: Chrysanthemum Henkes (irony, strong theme, character, self-worth, text/self) First Day Jitters Danneberg (school, teacher, strong ending) Grandfathers Journey Say (foreshadow, irony, personal narrative, questioning) I Aint Gonna Paint No More - Beaumont If You Give a Mouse Numeroff (cause/effect, personification) Ira Sleeps Over Waber (foreshadow, text-to-self) Just Plain Fancy Polacco (foreshadow, Amish) Rag Coat Mills (character traits, strong ending, inference) Ruby the Copycat Rathmann (foreshadow, self-worth) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Spinelli (irony, inference, plot) Swimmy Lionni (cooperation) Toughest Cowboy Frank (simile, metaphor, point of view, strong ending, tall tale) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (literacy, personal narrative, character relationships, inference) Questioning: An Angel for Solomon Singer Rylant (character traits, irony, symbolism) Appelemandos Dream - Polacco Big Al Clements Brave Irene Steig (courage) Call Me Ahnighito Conrad (fact/fiction, personification, point of view, meteorites) Dandelions Bunting (inference, Westward Movement) A Days Work Bunting (honesty, integrity, inference, questioning) Encounter Yolen (inference, metaphor, point of view, Columbus, foreshadow) Fly Away Home Bunting (inference, personal narrative, homeless) Grandfathers Journey Say (foreshadow, irony, personal narrative, prediction) Grandpas Teeth Clements (mystery, humor) How Many Days to America? Bunting (inference) Knots on a Counting Rope Martin (foreshadow, simile/metaphor, inference, visualization) Librarian Who Measured the Earth Lasky 921 Era Lotus Seed Garland (memorable language) The Mary Celeste Yolen (historical fiction, mystery) Other Side Woodson (text/world, prejudice, friendship) Pink and Say Polacco (Civil War)
Polar Express Van Allsburg (strong ending) Scarlet Stockings Spy Noble (American Revolution) The Stranger Van Allsburg (inference) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig (foreshadow, imagery, personification, symbol) Three Questions Muth Tight Times Hazen (inference, mood) Train to Somewhere Bunting (strong ending & theme, character traits, orphan train) Wall, The Bunting (personal narrative, Vietnam Memorial) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (personal narrative, summarizing, character, literacy, ending) Widows Broom Van Allsburg (inference) When Jessie Came Across the Sea Hest Satire: Story with Pictures Kanninen (story elements) Terrific Agee Tough Cookie Wisniewski (parody, simile, point of view) Undone Fairy Tale Lendler Sequence of Story: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Aardema Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett (tall tale, compound words) Jumanji - Van Allsburg King Bidgoods in the Bathtub Wood (strong ending) The Mitten Brett 398.2 (plot) Tops and Bottoms Stevens 398.2 Where the Wild Things Are Sendak (plot, hyperbole, inference, cause/effect) Similes/Metaphors: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective Biedrzycki (parody, point of view, insects) Across the Alley Michelson (irony, inference, point of view, prejudice, friendship) Across the Blue Pacific Borden (inference, imagery, parallelism) Angel City Johnston (imagery, inference) Brave as a Mountain Lion Scott (courage) Chanticleer and the Fox Cooney 811 Cindy Ellen: a Wild Western Cinderella Lowell 398.2 (foreshadowing, parody) Come on, Rain! Hesse (foreshadow, imagery, hyperbole, memorable language, weather) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Johnston (inference, parody) Crazy like a Fox Leedy Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War Turner (imagery, point of view) Freedom Summer Wiles (Civil Rights, prejudice) Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Goble (imagery, Native Americans) Grandma Essies Covered Wagon Williams (Missouri) Hello, Harvest Moon Fletcher (visualization, personification, memorable language) In November Rylant Just One Flick of a Finger Lorbiecki (Bullies, inference, foreshadow)
Kate and the Beanstalk Osborne (hyperbole, inference) Knots on a Counting Rope Martin (questioning, foreshadow, inference, visualization) Letting Swift River Go Yolen Like Jake and Me Jukes (fact/fiction, character traits, descriptive language, wolf spiders) Little Red Cowboy Hat Lowell (hyperbole, inference, onomatopoeia, parody) Night Boat to Freedom Raven (imagery, inference, slavery) Ocean Is- Kranking Old Jakes Skirts Slonim (irony, elderly, grammar) Owl Moon Yolen (mood, personal narrative, memorable language, imagery) Quick as a Cricket Wood Railroad John and the Red Rock Run Crunk Raising Yoders Barn Yolen (imagery, inference, simile, metaphor, personification, parallelism) Red Flower Goes West Turner (inference, symbol) River Friendly, River Wild Kurtz (imagery, onomatopoeia, cause/effect) Secret-Keeper Combs (foreshadow, imagery, inference, irony) Secret to Freedom Vaughan (slavery) Snowflake Bentley Martin (imagery, biography) Song and Dance Man - Ackerman (character traits, elderly) Swamp Angel Zelinsky Tough Cookie Wisniewski (parody, satire) Toughest Cowboy Frank (prediction, point of view, strong ending, tall tale, simile, metaphor) Understanding Poetry: Metaphors, Similes, and Other Word Pictures- Fandel 808 Up North at the Cabin Chall (imagery, text/self) Whitefish Will Rides Again! Yorinks (alliteration, hyperbole, inference, oxymoron) Wild Boars Cook Rosoff (adjectives) Strong Beginnings: Hey Al Yorinks (strong ending) My Mama had a Dancing Heart Gray (memorable language, mood, strong ending, personal narr.) Night in the Country Rylant (text/world, visualization) Relatives Came, The Rylant (character traits, memorable lang, personal narrative, beginning) Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco (point of view, literacy, text/self, personal narrative) Thunder Cake Polacco (point of view, personal narrative) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox (strong ending) Wilma Unlimited Krull 921 Rud (perseverance) Strong Endings: All the Places to Love MacLachlan (memorable language, personal narrative, visualization) Grandpas Teeth Clement (mystery, humor, questioning) Hey Al Yorinks (strong beginning) Imogenes Antlers - Small My Mama had a Dancing Heart Gray (mood, strong beginning, mem. lang, per. narr.) Polar Express Van Allsburg (questioning) Rag Coat Mills (character traits, inference, prediction) Stranger, The Van Allsburg (inference, questioning)
Strong to the Hoop Coy Summer My Father was Ten Brisson (honesty, personal narrative, text/self) Sweetest Fig Van Allsburg (inference, irony) Tadpoles Promise Ross (food chain) Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Trivazas Toughest Cowboy Frank (prediction, similes, metaphors, point of view, tall tale, humor) Train to Somewhere Bunting (strong theme, orphan train) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (personal narrative, summarizing, per. narr., character, literacy) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox (strong beginning) Strong Theme: Amazing Grace Hoffman (character traits) Amos & Boris Henkes (character traits, friendship) Chrysanthemum Henkes (self-worth, character, strong theme, irony, prediction) Fireflies Grinckloe (memorable language, personal narrative, inference, imagery) Giving Tree Silverstein (voice, point of view, personification) Just One Flick of a Finger Rorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, inference, simile/metaphor) Lillys Purple Plastic Purse Henkes (character traits) Memory Box Bahr (character) Odd Velvet Whitcomb (character traits) Smoky Night Bunting (text/world, synthesis) Sunshine Home Bunting (character relationships) Train to Somewhere Bunting (orphan train, strong ending, character relationships) Summarizing: Arrowhawk Schaefer Kat Kong Pilkey Legend of the Bluebonnet - dePaola Toughest Cowboy Frank (simile/metaphor, prediction, point of view, strong end, tall tale) Village of Round and Square Houses Grifalconi Wednesday Surprise Bunting (inference, prediction, strong ending, personal narrative) Synonyms: Stroll and Walk, Babble and Talk Cleary, Brian Symbolism: An Angel for Solomon Singer Rylant (irony, character traits, questioning) Click, Clack, Moo Cronin (irony, inference) Fly Away Home Bunting (inference, personal narrative, homeless) Keeping Quilt Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, point of view, text/world) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig (foreshadow, imagery, personification) Synthesis: Mirette on the High Wire Arnold (inference, courage, text/self) Smoky Night Bunting (strong theme, text/world) Shes Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head Lasky (inference) Story of Jumping Mouse Steptoe 398.2
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Text-to-Self: Alexander and the TerribleDay Viorst Art Lesson de Paola (inference, irony, personal narrative) Canoe Days Paulsen (personal narrative, visualization) Chicken Sunday Polacco (personal narrative) Chrysanthemum Henkes (character traits, irony, strong theme, prediction, self-worth) Going Home Bunting Ira Sleeps Over Waber (prediction, foreshadow) Julius the Baby of the World Henkes (irony) Keeping Quilt Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, point of view, symbolism) Lillys Purple Plastic Purse Henkes (character traits, strong theme) Mirette on the High Wire McCully (inference, courage, synthesis) Mrs. Katz and Tush Polacco Mrs. Mack Polacco My Great-aunt Arizona Houston (character traits, compare/contrast) My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother Polacco (personal narrative, compare/contrast) Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs dePaola (death, elderly) Oliver Button is a Sissy dePaola (teasing, being oneself) Owen Henkes Pain and the Great One Blume (point of view, character traits, siblings) Relatives Came Rylant (character traits, memorable language, personal narrative, beginning) Roxaboxen McLerran (mood, personal narrative) Sheila Rae, the Brave Henkes Summer My Dad was Ten Brisson (strong ending, honesty, personal narrative) Sunday Outing Pinkney Thank You, Mr. Falkner Polacco (strong beginning, literacy, personal narrative) Up North at the Cabin Call (imagery, simile, metaphor, text/self) When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant (character traits, personal narrative, point of view) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox (strong beginning, strong ending) Your Move Bunting (text/world, gangs) Text-to-World: Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki (personal narrative, Japanese-American, WWII) Fly Away Home Bunting (inference, personal narrative, homeless) Gleam and Glow Bunting (voice) Great Kapok Tree Cherry (main idea, point of view,) Lady in the Box McGovern (compassion, homeless, voice) New Yorks Bravest Osborne (Sept. 11) Night in the Country Rylant (strong beginning) Other Side, The Woodson (prejudice, friendship, questioning) Picnic in October Bunting Smoky Night Bunting (strong theme) Someday a Tree Bunting (foreshadow, inference) Those Shoes Boelts (self-worth) Uncle Willy and the Soup Kitchen DiSalvo-Ryan Wall, the Bunting (personal narrative, questioning, Vietnam Memorial)
Your Move Bunting (text/self) Twin Texts: (Fiction to Nonfiction) Amazing Grace- Hoffman/Story of Ruby Bridges Coles 921 Bri Apples to Oregon Hopkinson/ True Tale of Johnny Appleseed- Hodges 921 App Aunt Harriets Underground Railroad in the Sky Ringgold/ Harriet Tubman: They Called Me Moses Meyer 921 Tub Stellaluna Cannon/ Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats- Earle 599.4 Train to Somewhere Bunting/ Children of the Orphan Train Littlefield 362.73 Tree that Would Not Die Levine/Tree is Growing- Dorros 582.16 Mississippi Seibert/ River through the Ages Steele 910 Patchwork Quilt Flournoy/ Eight Hands Round, a Patchwork Alphabet- Paul 746.9 Papa and the Pioneer Quilt- Van Leeuwen/ Seasons Sewn, a Year in PatchworkPaul 746.46 Americas White Table Raven/ Veterans Day, Remembering Our War HeroesLandau 394.264 Letting Swift River Go- Yolen/ A River Ran Wild - /Cherry 974.4 Pumpkins Ray/ Pumpkin Circle 635 Lev That Book Woman Henson / Mary on Horseback - Wells 610.73 (Fiction to Fiction) Wednesday Surprise Bunting/ Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco Julius, the Baby of the World Henkes/ Owen Henkes My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother Polacco/ The Pain and the Great One-Blume Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox / Aunt Flossies Hats Fitzgerald Memory Box Bahr /Hundred Penny Box-Mathis /Memory String Bunting Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen DiSalvo/ Fly Away Home Bunting Redcoats and Petticoats Kirkpatrick/ Scarlet Stockings Spy Noble (American Revolution historical fiction) Romeow and Drooliet Laden/ Tales from Shakespeare - Packer Visualization: Abuela - Dorros All the Places to Love MacLachlan (personal narrative, memorable language, strong ending) Bad Case of Stripes Shannon (bullies) Canoe Days Paulsen (personal narrative, text/self) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett (imagery, sequence, tall tale, compound words) Color Me a Rhyme Yolen (poetry) Dogteam Paulsen (personal narrative) Everybody Cooks Rice Dooley (multi-cultural) Fireflies Brinkloe (inference, memorable language, strong theme, personal narrative) Hello, Harvest Moon Fletcher (memorable language, personification, simile/metaphor, infer) Knots on a Counting Rope Martin (foreshadow, questioning, simile, metaphor, Native Americans) Miss Rumphius Cooney (character traits, ecology)
Napping House Wood (cause/effect) Night in the Country Rylant (strong beginning, text/world) Owl Moon Yolen (mood, personal narrative, simile, metaphor, memorable language) Pumpkins Ray River Friendly, River Wild Kurtz (onomatopoeia, simile/metaphor, cause/effect) Salamander Room Mazer Seashore Book Zolotow (memorable language, mood) Smoky Night Bunting (strong theme, text/world) Through Grandpas Eyes MacLachlan (personal narrative, point of view) Two Bad Ants Van Allsburg (prediction, point of view) Water Dance Locker (point of view, memorable language, water cycle) Vocabulary: Boy Who Loved Words Schotter Maxs Words - Banks Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster Frasier (word choice) River of Words - Williams Thunder Rose Nolen (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, word choice) Voice: Babe & I Adler (inference, irony, personal narrative) Bird House Rylant Diary of a Worm Cronin (personification, onomatopoeia, fact/fiction) Gleam and Glow Bunting (text/world) Lady in the Box McGovern (text/world, compassion) My Light Bang 523.7 (sun, electricity, onomatopoeia) Other Side- Woodson (text/world, prejudice, friendship) Relatives Came Rylant (character traits, memorable lang., personal narrative) Scoop: An Exclusive by Monty Molenski Kelly (mystery, word choice) Sweet Tooth Palatini Voices in the Park Browne (foreshadow, inference, point of view, word choice) Vowels: Sue MacDonald had a Book Tobin Word Choice: Amos & Boris Steig (character traits, character relationships, strong theme) Beauty and the Beaks: A Turkeys Cautionary Tale - Auch Boy Who Loved Words - Schotter Chris Van Allsburgs books Duke Ellington Pinkney Epossumondas Salley Fancy Nancy OConnor Hello, Harvest Moon Fletcher ( Home Place Dragonwagon (flashback, imagery, memorable language) Mirandy and Brother Wind McKissack (personal narrative) Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster Frasier (vocabulary)
Mr. George Baker Hest (literacy, elderly) My Mama had a Dancing Heart - Gray Once there was a Bull...(frog) Walton (compound words) Thunder Rose Nolen (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, vocabulary, adjectives) Voices in the Park Browne (foreshadow, inference, point of view, voice) Why the Banana Split Walton (homonyms) Patricia Polaccos books Wordless books: Free Fall Wiesner Lion and Mouse Pinkney (onomatopoeia) Sector 7 Wiesner PARTS OF SPEECH: Adjectives: Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Old Black fly Aylesworth (ABC book) Many Luscious Lollipops Heller 428.2 Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Thats Good! Thats Bad! Cuyler (cause/effect, verb choice, onomatopoeia) Things that are Most in the World Barrett Thunder Rose Nolen (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, vocabulary) Wild Boars Cook Rosoff (simile/metaphor) Adverbs: Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? Cleary, Brian 428.2 Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish Obligado (alliteration) Z Was Zapped - Van Allsburg 411 (ABC book) Alliteration, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives: Absolutely Awful Alphabet Gerstein 428.1 Compound Words: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Barrett Once there was a Bull (frog) Walton (word choice) Grammar: Harvey Potters Balloon Farm Nolen Miss Myrtle Frag the Grammar Nag - Bailey Old Jakes Skirts Slonim Interjections and Conjunctions: But and For, Yet and Nor: What is a Conjunction? - Cleary Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! Heller 425
Nouns: A Cache of Jewels Heller 428.1 A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime; More About Nouns Cleary 428.1 A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink, What is a Noun? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Nouns and Verbs have a Field Day Pulver Pronouns: I and You and Dont Forget Who Cleary, Brian 428.2 Mine, All Mine Heller 428.2 Prepositions: Behind the Mask Heller 428.2 Under, Over, by the Clover: What is a Preposition? Cleary, Brian 428.2 Superlatives: Things that are Most In the World Barrett Verbs: Kites Sail High Heller 428.2 Old Black Fly - Aylesworth Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello Singer 591.59 Pumpkin Soup Cooper To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb? - Cleary, Brian 428.2 Zzzng! Zzzng! A Yoruba Tale Gershator 398.24 WRITING SKILLS: All Aspects: Chesters Masterpiece Watt Plot Chickens - Auch S is for Story, A Writers Alphabet Hershenhorn Character Relationships: Amos and Boris Steig Chicken Sunday Polacco Fly Away Home Bunting Grandpas Face Greenfield My Mamma had a Dancing Heart Gray Rudis Pond Bunting Sunshine Home Bunting Song and Dance Man Ackerman Memory Box Bahr Memory String Bunting Train to Somewhere - Bunting Wednesday Surprise Bunting White Dynamite and Curly Kid Martin
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Character Traits: Amazing Grace Hoffman (strong theme) Amos & Boris Steig (strong theme) An Angel for Solomon Singer Rylant (irony, questioning, symbol) Chrysanthemum Henkes (strong theme, irony, prediction, self-worth, text/self) Crow Boy Yashima Gingerbread Cowboy Squires 398.21 (parody) Like Jake and Me Jukes (similes, metaphors, setting, fact/fiction, wolf spiders) Lillys Purple Plastic Purse Henkes Lillys Big Day Henkes (strong theme, text/self) Miss Rumphius Cooney (ecology, visualization) My Great-aunt Arizona Houston 921 Hug (compare/contrast, text/self) Odd Velvet Whitcomb (strong theme) Olivia Falconer Pain and the Great One Blume (point of view) Pumpkin Runner Arnold (perseverance) Rag Coat Mills (strong ending, inference) The Relatives Came Rylant (memorable language, personal narrative, strong beginning) Song and Dance Man Ackerman (simile/metaphor, elderly) True Story of the Three Little Pigs Scieszka (parody, point of view) When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant (personal narrative, point of view, text/self) Jokes & Riddles: Funny You Should Ask: How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay Terban 808 Letter Writing: Armadillo from Amarillo Cherry Around the World, Whos been Here? George Dear Mrs. LaRue, Letters from Obedience School Teague (point of view) Dear Peter Rabbit Ada The Gardener - Stewart Message in the Mailbox Leedy 395 Stringbeans Trip to the Shining Sea Williams Yours Truly, Goldilocks Ada (sequel to Dear Peter Rabbit) Poetry: Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic Schnur 793.73 Carrots to Cupcakes: Reading, Writing, and Reciting Poems about Food Freese 808.1 Punctuation: Alfie the Apsotrophe Donohue Eats, Shoots & Leaves Truss 428.2 (commas) Greedy Apostrophe, a Cautionary Tale Carr Penny and the Punctuation Bee Donohue Punctuation Celebration - Bruno Punctuation takes a Vacation Pulver Twenty-odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts Truss 428.2
Spelling/Phonics: Silent Letters Loud and Clear Pulver Vowel Family: a Tale of Lost Letters Walker Strong Beginnings: Hey Al Yorinks (strong ending) My Mama had a Dancing Heart Gray (memorable language, mood, strong ending, personal narr.) Night in the Country Rylant (text/world, visualization) Relatives Came, The Rylant (character traits, memorable lang, personal narrative, beginning) Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco (point of view, literacy, text/self, personal narrative) Thunder Cake Polacco (point of view, personal narrative) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox (strong ending) Wilma Unlimited Krull 921 Rud (perseverance) Strong Endings: All the Places to Love MacLachlan (memorable language, personal narrative) Grandpas Teeth Clement (mystery, humor, questioning) Hey Al Yorinks (strong beginning) Imogenes Antlers - Small My Mama had a Dancing Heart Gray (mood, strong beginning, mem. lang, per. narr.) Polar Express Van Allsburg (questioning) Rag Coat Mills (character traits) Snow Day! Laminack (prediction, strong ending) Stranger, The Van Allsburg (inference, questioning) Strong to the Hoop Coy Summer My Father was Ten Brisson (honesty, personal narrative, text/self) Sweetest Fig Van Allsburg (inference, irony) Tadpoles Promise Ross (food chain) Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Trivazas Toughest Cowboy Frank (prediction, similes, metaphors, point of view, tall tale, humor) Train to Somewhere Bunting (strong theme, orphan train) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (personal narrative, summarizing, per. narr., character, literacy) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox (strong beginning) Strong Theme: Amazing Grace Hoffman (character traits) Amos & Boris Henkes (character traits, friendship) Chrysanthemum Henkes (self-worth, character, strong theme, irony, prediction) Fireflies Grinckloe (memorable language, personal narrative, inference, imagery) Giving Tree Silverstein (voice, point of view, personification) Just One Flick of a Finger Rorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, inference, simile/metaphor) Lillys Purple Plastic Purse Henkes (character traits) Memory Box Bahr (character) Odd Velvet Whitcomb (character traits) Smoky Night Bunting (text/world, synthesis) Sunshine Home Bunting (character relationships)
Train to Somewhere Bunting (orphan train, strong ending, character relationships) GENRES: All: Book, A Gerstein Autobiography: Dont You Know theres a War On? Stevenson, James Through My Eyes Bridges, Ruby Biography: (also see Biography List) American Boy, the Adventures of Mark Twain Brown 921 Twa Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy) - Kerley Wilma Unlimited Krull (Wilma Rudolph) 921 Rud Fantasy: Rootabaga Stories Sandburg 808.8 Historical fiction: Butterfly- Polacco Dear Mr. Rosenwald Weatherford (Black history) Pink and Say Polacco (Civil War) Langstons Train Ride Burleigh (Mo. poet Langston Hughes) That Book Woman Henson (text-to-text) Through Georgias Eyes 921 Oke (art) Train to Somewhere Bunting (Orphan Train) Vinnie and Abraham 921 Rea (See Social Studies section for more.) Mystery: Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective - Biedrzycki Grandpas Teeth Clement Scoop! An Exclusive by Monty Molenski - Kelly Realistic fiction: Lady in the Box - McGovern Your Move Bunting Science fiction: Mission Ziffoid Rosen Novas Ark Kirk
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Chickerella - Auch Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella - Lowell 398.2 Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea - Johnston Egyptian Cinderella Climo 398.2 Extra! Extra! Fairy Tale News from the Hidden Forest - Ada Fannys Dream - Buehner Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka Gift of the Crocodile, a Cinderella Story - Sierra 398.2 Gingerbread Cowboy Squires 398.21 Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, a Worldwide Cinderella - Fleischman 398.2 Jim and the Beanstalk - Briggs 398.2 Kate and the Beanstalk Osborne 398.2 Little Red Cowboy Hat - Lowell 398.2 Mufaros Beautiful Daughters Steptoe Once Upon a Time, the End Kloske Paper Bag Princess - Munsch Petite Rouge, a Cajun Red Riding Hood Artell 398.2 Princess Furball Huck Princess Hyacinth, the Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated - Heide Squids Will Be Squids Scieszka Stinky Cheese Man Scieszka The End - LaRochelle Three Cool Kids Emberley 398.2 Three Silly Billies Palatini Town Mouse, Country Mouse Brett 398.24 True Story of the Three Little Pigs Scieszka Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China Louie 398.2 Yours Truly, Goldilocks Ada Yummy, Eight Favorite Fairy Tales - Cousins Fables: Blind Men and the Elephant Backstein 398.21 Fables Lobel, Arnold Tortoise and the Hare: an Aesop Fable Stevens 398.2 Nursery Rhymes: Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon - Grey And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Stevens Here Comes Mother Goose Opie 398.8 Itsy Bitsy Spider Trapani Mary Engelbreits Mother Goose - Engelbreit Cumulative Tales: Book that Jack Wrote - Scieszka Napping House - Wood (also in Big Book form) No More Jumping on the Bed - Arnoco
Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Taback Old Woman and Her Pig - Kimmel Shoes from Grandpa Fox Modern Tales: Baby Brains James Froggy Fable Lechner Gold Miners Daughter, a Melodramatic Fairy Tale Hopkins Granite Baby Bertrand (Tall Tale) Gruffalo Donaldson My Sisters Rusty Bike Aylesworth (tall tale) Pancakes for Supper - Isaacs Railroad John and the Red Rock Run Crunk (tall tale) Steel Pan Man of Harlem Bootman (Pied Piper of Hamelin) Thunder Rose Nolen (tall tale) Cinderella Variations: Bubba, the Cowboy Prince Ketteman Chickerella - Auch Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella Lowell Dinorella Edwards Egyptian Cinderella Climo Fannys Dream Buehner Gift of the Crocodile, a Cinderella Story Sierra Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, a Worldwide Cinderella Fleischman 398.2 Golden Delicious, a Cinderella Apple Story - Smucker 634 Mufaros Beautiful Daughters Steptoe Princess Furball Huck Rough-face Girl Martin Yeh-Shen, a Cinderella Story from China Louie 398.2
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Appalachia: Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds - Rylant My Great-Aunt Arizona - Houston Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree Houston
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African-American: A Band of Angels - Hopkinson Duke Ellington Pinkney Langstons Train Ride - Burleigh The Story of Ruby Bridges - Coles The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields Miller Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Lasky African: Village of Round and Square Houses Grifalconi Amish: An Amish Christmas - Ammon Just Plain Fancy - Polacco Raising Yoders Barn Yolen
Arab: The Storytellers Lewin Chinese: Chee-Lin, a Giraffes Journey - Rumford Coolies Yin Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella Story from China Louie 398.2 Egypt: Day of Ahmeds Secret Heide Irish: OSullivan Stew Talbott Japanese: Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki The Bracelet - Uchida Grandfathers Journey - Say Mexican: Abuela Dorros Going Home - Bunting Uncle Rain Cloud Johnston Muslim: One Green Apple - Bunting Russian: The Keeping Quilt Polacco PREJUDICE / TOLERANCE Blind Men and the Elephant - Backstein Friday Night at Hodges Caf - Eagam Widows Broom Van Allsburg African-American: Across the Alley - Michelson Band of Angels: a Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers Hopkinson Freedom Summer - Wiles Mr. Lincolns Way - Polacco Other Side - Woodson Teammates Golenbock Through My Eyes Bridges, Ruby
Vision of Beauty: the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Hannaway Jewish: Across the Alley - Michelson Mollys Pilgrim Cohen Mrs. Katz and Tush - Polacco Physically Handicapped: The Storm - Harshman (wheelchair) Mentally Handicapped: Be Good to Eddie Lee - Fleming (Down Syndrome) Japanese: The Bracelet Uchida (WWII) internment camp) So Far from the Sea - Bunting (WWII internment camp) Homeless: Fly Away Home - Bunting Lady in the Box McGovern Uncle Willys Soup Kitchen DiSalvo-Ryan
GETTING ALONG Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon (being yourself) Chrysanthemum - Henkes Gershons Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year Kimmel Hey Little Ant Hoose (respect; not looking down on others) Hooway for Wodney Wat Lester (acceptance) Lizzies Invitation Keller (being left out) Oliver Button is a Sissy de Paola (being yourself) Stephanies Pony Tail - Munsch Summer Wheels - Bunting When Sophie Gets Angry - Bang (controlling anger) Wings - Myers (being yourself, acceptance of others) GRANDPARENTS / ELDERLY Abuela - Dorros Emma - Kesselman Aunt Flossies Hats Howard Grandfathers Journey -Say Grandpas Face Cooper Grandpas Soup - Kadano
Homeplace Shelby Hundred Penny Box - Mathis I Go With My Family to Grandmas - Levinson Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin Miss Rumphius- Cooney Mr. George Baker Hest Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs - dePaola Not the Piano, Mrs. Medley! - Levine Old Henry - Blos Old Jakes Skirts Slonim Old Woman Who Named Things - Rylant Papa Luckys Shadow - Daly Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Sunday Outing Pinkney Sunshine Home- Bunting Thunder Cake Polacco Two of Them - Aliki Tom - de Paola Wednesday Surprise Bunting When I Was Young in the Mountains - Rylant Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partiridge Fox
DEATH Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs - dePaola Everett Andersons Goodbye Clifton Rudis Pond - Bunting Two of Them, The - Aliki
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Great Kapok Tree Cherry Great Trash Bash - Leedy Heron Street - Turner Just a Dream - Van Allsburg Legend of the Indian Paintbrush dePaola Letting Swift River Go - Yolen Miss Rumphius Cooney Owl Moon Yolen River Ran Wild - Cherry Sierra - Siebert (effects of removal of a link in the food chain/web) Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe Williams MUSIC
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Blues of Flats Brown Myers The Composer is Dead - Snicket Fiddlin Sam Dengler Froggy Plays with the Band London Flute Player: an Apache Folktale - Lacapa M is for Melody: a Music Alphabet Wargin Remarkable Farkle McBride Lithgow Wood-hoopoe Willie Kroll ART Art Lesson De Paola Imaginary Garden - Larsen Katie Meets the Impressionists Mayhew Linnea in Monets Garden Bjork No Good in Art Cohen
CHARACTER EDUCATION BULLYING Picture Books: Bullies Never Win - Cuyler Just Kidding - Ludwig Just One Flick of a Finger - Lorbiecki (serious book about guns) Kids Talk About Bullying Finn 302.3 My Secret Bully - Ludwig Nobody Knew What to Do: A Story about Bullying McCain Oliver Button is a Sissy dePaola One - Otoshi Recess Queen ONeill Say Something Moss Sneaky Weasel - Shaw Read-Aloud Chapter Books: 18th Emergency - Byars Bad Girls - Wilson Berenstain Bears and the Bully - Berenstain Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain- Romain 302.3 Bully of Barkham Street- Stolz How to Be Cool in the Third Grade - Duffey
Jake Drake, Bully Buster- Clements Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge Shreve Mr. Lincolns Way - Polacco Surviving Brick Johnson - Myers Veronica Ganz - Sachs Professional Books: Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8 Beane 371.102 Bully Proofing Your School Garrity, et al. 372.17 Bul How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies Cohen-Posey 303.6 The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander Coloroso 371.7 SELF-WORTH Picture Books: Bad Case of Stripes - Shannon Childrens Book of Virtues Bennett 808.8 Chi Chrysanthemum - Henkes Gumbo goes Downtown - Talley Im Gonna Like Me- Curtis Just Like Mike - Herman Odd Velvet- Whitcomb Otis Bynum Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco Those Shoes - Boelts Your Move - Bunting (pressure to be in a gang) (Self-Worth) Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Freckle Juice - Blume Girl with 500 Middle Names - Haddix The Girls - Koss Lizzie at Last - Mills Star Girl - Spinelli Theres a Boy in the Girls Bathroom - Sachar Winners Take All - Bowen Zachs Lie Smith RESPONSIBILITY Picture Books: AlexanderBad Day -Viorst Amos and Boris - Steig Apple Picking Time Slawson Being Responsible - Small
Berenstain Bears and the Blame Game - Berenstain Brave Irene - Steig Childrens Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Encounter - Yolen Everybody Cooks Rice Dooley 641.6 Farmer Duck - Waddell Full Belly Bowl Aylesworth Great Kapok Tree - Cherry Hanas Year - Talley I Did It, Im Sorry - Buehner Its Up to You Griffin Pickford Never Ride Your Elephant to School - Johnson Sachiki Means Happiness - Sakal Song and Dance Man Ackerman Summer My Father was Ten - Brisson Swimmy - Lionni Tops and Bottoms Stevens Very First, Last Time - Andrews Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Dog on Barkham Street - Stolz Family Under the Bridge - Carlson Light at Tern Rock - Sauer Marvin Redpost, Alone in His Teachers House - Sachar Night Swimmers - Byars On My Honor - Bauer One-Eyed Cat - Fox Sign of the Beaver -Speare Stone Fox - Gardiner Summer Wheels - Bunting RESPECT Picture Books: Amos & Boris Steig Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry Arthurs Eyes - Brown Arthurs Nose Brown Aunt Flossies Hats - Howard Chicken Sunday - Polocca Crow Boy Yashima Everybody Cooks Rice Dooley 641.6 Fireflies! - Brinkloe Frog and Toad Together - Lobel Great Kapok Tree Cherry
Hey, Al - Yorinks Hey Little Ant Hoose Kids Talk about Respect Finn 179 Lillys Purple Plastic Purse - Henkes No Good in Art - Cohen Quarreling Book Zolotow Relatives Came, The - Rylant Richard Wright and the Library Card - Miller Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai Smoky Night Bunting Song and Dance Man - Ackerman Stellaluna - Cannon Strega Nona - De Paola Sweetest Fig Van Allsburg Treat Me Right Loewen 179 Two of Them - Aliki Ugly Duckling - Anderson Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Bully of Barkham Street - Stolz Hundred Penny Box - Mathis Nothings Fair in the Fifth Grade - DeClements Zucchini - Dana COURAGE Picture Books: Alexander, Whos NotGoing to Move - Viorst Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart Williams Bad Day at River Bend Van Allsburg Black Snowman - Mendez Brand New Kid - Couric (courage to accept someone different) Brave as a Mountain Lion Scott Brave Irene - Steig Cello of Mr. O - Cutler Childrens Book of Virtues Bennett 808.8 Chi Courage Waber Goin Someplace Special McKissack How Many Days to America - Bunting Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare DeBeer Might Santa Fe Hooks My Prairie Christmas- Harvey Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt Hopkinson Theres a Nightmare in My Closet Meyer Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig - Trivazas Thunder Cake - Polacco Very First Last Time - Andrews
Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Call It Courage - Sperry Courage of Sarah Noble - Dalgliesh Drinking Gourd - Monjo Hatchet - Paulsen Helen Keller - Keller 921 Kel Sarah, Plain and Tall - MacLachlan Sign of the Beaver - Speare Snow Treasure - McSwigan Whipping Boy - Fleischman CARING/COMPASSION Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Viorst Be Good to Eddie Lee - Flelming Big Al - Clements Chair for My Mother - Williams Childrens Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Crow Boy - Yashima How Many Days to America? Bunting Lady in the Box - McGovern Letting Swift River Go - Yolen Mean Soup Everitt Mr. Lincolns Way Polacco Mrs. Katz and Tush - Polacco My Momma had a Dancing Heart - Gray Other Side - Woodson Owl Moon - Yolen Rainbow Fish - Pfister Sachiko Means Happiness - Sakai Smoky Night Bunting Stranger, The Van Allsburg Tar Beach - Ringold Those Shoes - Boelts Three Questions - Muth Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen - DiSalvo-Ryan Under the Lemon Moon - Fine Wednesday Surprise Bunting When I was Young in the Mountains Rylant Wilfred Gordan McDonald Partridge - Fox Read-Aloud Chapter Books: Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Robinson Hundred Dresses - Estes Mollys Pilgrim - Cohen
Pinballs - Byars (Lit Set) Randalls Wall - Fenner Secret Life of the Underwear Champ - Miles HONESTY Picture Books: Americans Who Tell the Truth Shetterly 920 She Childrens Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Days Work - Bunting Empty Pot - Demi 398.2 Gold Coin Ada Grandpas Teeth - Clement Honest Ashley - Kroll Honest to Goodness Truth - McKissack I Did It, I Am Sorry Buehner Monster Who Did My Math - Schnitzlein Platos Journey Talley Ruthie and the (Not So) Teeny Tiny Lie - Rankin Sam, Bangs and Moonshine - Ness Smoky Night - Bunting The Summer My Father Was Ten - Brisson Too Many Tamales - Soto Read-Aloud Chapter Books: The Cheat - Koss Death at Devils Bridge - DeFelice Nothing But the Truth - Avi On My Honor Bauer COOPERATION Picture Books: Berlioz the Bear- Brett Farmer Duck Waddell Miss Nelson is Missing - Allard Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2 Swimmy Lionni Uncle Jeds Barbershop - Mitchell Wild Christmas Reindeer - Brett PERSEVERANCE Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Viorst Amazing Grace - Hoffman Apple Picking Time Slawson Art Lesson - DePaola
Brave Irene - Steig Chair for My Mother - Williams Empty Pot - Demi 398.2 Galimoto - Williams How Many Days to America - Bunting Knots on a Counting Rope Martin Mrs. Mack - Polacco Ox-Cart Man - Hall Pumpkin Runner Arnold Rocks in His Head Hurst Sophies Masterpiece - Spinelli Story of Jumping Mouse - Steptoe 398.2 Swimmy - Lionni Tortoise and the Hare - Stevens Uncle Jeds Barbershop - Mitchell Wagon Wheels - Brenner Wednesday Surprise - Bunting Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph became the Worlds Fastest Woman Krull 921 Perseverance Read-aloud Chapter Books: Jasons Gold - Hobbs Helen Keller Keller 921 Hatchet - Paulsen Theres a Boy in the Girls Bathroom - Sachar INTEGRITY Picture Books: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible- Viorst Bad Case of Stripes - shannon Childrens Book of Virtues - Bennett 808.8 Chi Ruby the Copycat - Rathmann Read-aloud Chapter Books: Death at Devils Bridge - DeFelice ANGER Alexander, Whos Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move - Viorst Amazing Millika - Parkison Andrews Angry Words - Lachner Im Furious - Crary Quarreling Book - Zolotow Smoky Night - Bunting Uncle Rain Cloud - Johnston When Sophie Gets Angry Bang Various Character Traits: Bite-Size Life Lessons Rosenthal 179
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HOLIDAYS & SEASONAL Jewish New Year: Gershons Monster Kimmel Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Martins Big Words - Rappaport Groundhog Day: Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather Koscielniak Groundhog Gets a Say Swallow Groundhog Stays Up Late - Cuyler Its Up to You, Griffin Pickford Valentines Day: Happy Valentines Day, Dolores - Samuels Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch - Spinelli The Valentine Bears Bunting St. Patricks Day: St. Patricks Day - Gibbons St. Patricks Day in the Morning Bunting Easter: Cranberry Easter Devlin April Fools Day: April Foolishness Bateman Earth Day: Just a Dream Van Allsburg Earth Day Hooray! Murphy 513 Memorial Day: Casey Over There - Rabin School: Biggest Test in the Universe - Poydar Chrysanthemum - Henkes Crow Boy Yashima A Fine, Fine School Creech Froggy Goes to School - London *Lillys Purple Plastic Purse Henkes Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster Miss Nelson has a Field Day Allard Miss Nelson is Back Allard
Miss Nelson is Missing Allard Mrs. McBloom, Clean Up Your Classroom! - DiPucchio Never Poke a Squid Cazet Never Spit on Your Shoes Cazet No Good in Art Cohen Odd Velvet Whitcomb Officer Buckle and Gloria - Rathmann Once Upon an Ordinary School Day McNaughton Say Something Moss School Picture Day - Plourde Science Verse Scieszka Shrinking Violet Best Stephanies Ponytail - Munsch Halloween/October/ Fall: Arthurs Halloween - Brown Biggest Pumpkin Ever - Kroll Gargoyle on the Roof Prelutsky Graves Family -Polacco Halloween Adventure - Dandi Halloween Day Rockwell Halloween House Silverman Hallo-weiner - Pilkey Hoodwinked Howard Monster Mischief Jane One Halloween Night - Teague Picking Apples & Pumpkins - Hutchings Pumpkin - Ray Pumpkin Eye Fleming Pumpkin Heads Minor Scarecrow Rylant Widows Broom Van Allsburg Veterans Day: Americas White Table Raven The Wall - Bunting Thanksgiving: Twas the Night before Thanksgiving - Pilkey All About Turkey Arnosky 598.6 Arthurs Thanksgiving Brown How Many Days to America Bunting In November - Rylant Mollys Pilgrim - Cohen Plump Perky Turkey Bateman (Alliteration, irony, parallelism) Thank You, Sarah; the Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving 394.2649
Thanksgiving at the Tappletons Spinelli Thanksgiving Wish - Rosen Turkey for Thanksgiving Bunting Very first Thanksgiving Day Greene We Gather TogetherNow Please Get Lost! deGroat Christmas: A Certain Small Shepherd Caudill Albert and the Angels Norris All-Ill-Ever-Want Christmas Doll - McKissack An Amish Christmas Ammon Angel Pig & the Hidden Christmas Waldron Arthurs Christmas Brown Arthurs Perfect Christmas Brown Auntie Claus Primavera Bless You, Santa - Sykes Bright Christmas, an Angel Remembers Clements Christmas Day in the Morning Buck Christmas in the Country - Rylant Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey Wojciechowski Christmas Tapestry - Polacco Christmas Trolls - Brett December Bunting Ernests Special Christmas - Barnes Finest Christmas Tree Hassett Froggys Best Christmas London How Santa Got His Job - Krensky If You Take a Mouse to the Movies - Numeroff Lady in the Box - McGovern Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear! Wood Mighty Santa Fe - Hooks My Prairie Christmas Harvey Night before Christmas Moore 811 Night Tree - Bunting Olivia Helps with Christmas - Falconer Polar Express - Van Allsburg Red Ranger Came Calling Breathed Sams Wild West Christmas - Antle Santas Book of Names McPhail Silver Packages Rylant Stick Man - Donaldson Teachers Night Before Christmas - Layne 811 Three French Hens - Palatini Was that Christmas? - McKay Welcome Comfort Polacco Wish to be a Christmas Tree - Monroe
Worst Persons Christmas- Stevenson Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree - Houston Winter: Frosty is a Stupid Name - Wilson Midnight in the Mountains Lawson Now it is Winter Spinelli Snow Shulevitz Snow Day! - Laminack Snow Sounds Johnson Snowy Day Keats Stranger in the Woods - Sams FAMILY: Cracked Corn and Snow Ice Cream: a Family Almanac Willard Home Place Dragonwagon Homeplace Shelby Knots on a Counting Rope Martin Memory String Bunting Pain and the Great One Blume Relatives Came Rylant Through Grandpas Eyes MacLachlan Thunder Cake Polacco Wednesday Surprise - Bunting When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant FRIENDSHIP: Everett Andersons Friend Clifton Leonardo the Terrible Monster Williams Little Blue and Little Yellow Lionni Misery Moo - Willis Mrs. Katz and Tush Polacco Terrific Agee Two of a Kind - Robbins HUMOR: Bedhead - Palatini Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Barrett Dont Go Near that Rabbit, Frank! - Conrad Ducks Dont Wear Socks - Nedwidek Ed & Fred Flea - Edwards Grandpas Teeth Clement I Aint Gonna Paint No More! - Beaumont Jake Johnson, the Story of a Mule - Seymour Never Spit on Your Shoes Cazet No Jumping on the Bed Arnold Those Darn Squirrels! - Rubin Web Files - Palatini
Picture Book Biographies Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin Giblin Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin Cowboy Pinkney Daring Nellie Bly, Americas Star Reporter Christensen Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Kerley Duke Ellington Pinkney Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy) - Kerley Farmer George Plants a Nation - Thomas Fossil Girl, Mary Annings Dinosaur Discovery Brighton Galileo Fisher Hero and the Holocaust, the story of Janusz Korczak and His Children Adler Leonardo Da Vinci Stanley Librarian who Measured the Earth Hawkes Lindbergh Demarest Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man Adler Michelangelo Stanley My Brother Martin - Farris Norman Rockwell, Storyteller with a Brush Gherman Promises to Keep, How Jackie Robinson Changed America Robinson, Sharon Revolutionary John Adams Harness Ruth Law Thrills a Nation Brown Seeker of Knowledge, the Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs Rumford Shooting for the Moon, the Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley Krensky Snowflake Bentley Martin Story of Ruby Bridges Coles Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields Miller They Called Her Molly Pitcher Rockwell Uncommon Traveler, Mary Kingsley in Africa Brown Vision of Beauty, the Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Lasky Voice from the Wilderness, Story of Anna Howard Shaw Brown When Esther Morris Headed West Wooldridge
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Language Arts Picture Book Alpha List A is for Salad Lester (ABC books) ABC, Letters in the Library Farmer (ABC books, libraries) Absolutely Awful Alphabet Gerstein (ABC books, alliteration, nouns, verbs, adjectives) Abuela Dorros (visualization) Ace Lacewing, Bug Detective Biedrzycki (parody, insects, point of view, simile, metaphor) Across the Alley Michelson (prejudice, friendship, similes, metaphors) Across the Blue Pacific Borden (inference, imagery, simile, parallelism) Across the Stream Ginsburg (cause/effect) Alexander and the TerribleDay Viorst (text/self) Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday Viorst (flashback, money) All the Places to Love MacLachlan (memorable language, strong ending, personal narrative) Amelia Bedelia Parish (idioms) Amazing Grace (character traits, strong theme) Amos & Boris Steig (character traits, character relationships, strong theme) An Angel for Solomon Singer Rylant (character traits, irony, questioning, symbol) Angel City Johnston (foreshadow, imagery, inference, metaphor, simile) Animalia Base (ABC books, alliteration) Annie and the Old Ones Miles (inference, Native Americans) Annie and the Wild Animals Brett (foreshadow) Ant Bully Nickle (inference, foreshadow, personification, point of view) Antics Hepworth (ABC books) Appelmandos Dream Polacco (questioning) Apple Picking Time Slawson (personal narrative) Arrowhawk Schaefer (summarizing) Art Lesson dePaola (inference, irony, personal narrative, text/self, main idea) Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair Polacco (literacy, personal narrative) Aunt Flossies Hats Howard (personal narrative) Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic Schnur 793.73 (acrostic poetry) Babe & I Adler (inference, irony, personal narrative, voice) Bad Case of Stripes Shannon (visualization, bullies) Barn Atwell (point of view) Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki (personal narrative, Japanese-Americans, WWII, text/world) Band of Angels Hopkinson (irony) Bats at the Library Lies (libraries) Behind the Mask Heller 428.2 (prepositions) Bens Dream Van Allsburg (inference) Best Book to Read Bertram (libraries) Big Al Clements (questioning) Big Bushy Mustache Soto (inference) Bird House Rylant (voice) Black and White Macaulay (point of view) Black Book of Colors Cottin (imagery) Book, A Gerstein (different genres) Bootsie Barker Bites Bottner (foreshadowing, inference, bullies) Boy Who Loved Words Schotter (word choice) Boy Who was Raised by Librarians Morris (strong ending) Bracelet, The Uchida (personal narrative, Japanese-Americans, WWII) Brave as a Mountain Lion Scott (similes, metaphors, courage) Brave Irene Steig (questioning, courage) Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Aarmeda (story sequence) But and For, Yet and Nor, What is a Conjunction? - Cleary Cache of Jewels Heller 428.1 (nouns) Call Me, Ahnighito Conrad (fact/fiction, personification, meteorites, point of view, questioning)
Canoe Days Paulsen (personal narrative, visualization, text/self) Carrots to Cupcakes Freese (writing, poetry) Cave Siebert (personification, point of view) Chair for my Mother Williams (main idea, personal narrative) Chanticleer and the Fox Cooney 811 (similes, metaphors) Chesters Masterpiece Watt (writing, all parts) Chicken Sunday Polacco (personal narrative, text/self, character relationships) Chocolate Moose for Dinner Gwynne 428.1 (homophones) Chrysanthemum Henkes (character traits, irony, strong theme, prediction, self-worth, text/self) Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella Lowell (foreshadow, parody, simile) Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type Cronin (inference, irony, symbol) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Barrett (imagery, sequence, tall tale, compound words) Color Me a Rhyme Yolen (visualization) Come On, Rain! Hesse (foreshadow, hyperbole, imagery, simile, metaphor, mem lang., weather) Comets Nine Lives Brett (cause & effect) Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Johnston 398.2 (parody, simile, inference) Crazy Like a Fox Leedy (simile) Crow Boy Yashima (character traits) Dandelions Bunting (inference, questioning, Westward Movement) Days Work Bunting (inference, prediction, questioning, honesty, integrity) Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What is an Adverb? Cleary (adverbs) Delilah D. at the Library Willis (libraries) Dinorella Edwards (alliteration) Diary of a Worm Cronin (personification, onomatopoeia, fact/fiction, voice) Dog Breath Pilkey (idioms) Dogteam Paulsen (personal narrative, visualization) Dona Flora Mora (hyperbole) Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War Turner (imagery, point of view, simile) Eight Ate, a Feast of Homonym Riddles Terban 818 (homonyms) Encounter Yolen (cause/effect, foreshadow, metaphor, point of view, inference, Columbus) Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams Agee (anagram) Epossumondas Salley (word choice) Even More Parts Arnold (idioms) Everybody Cooks Rice Dooley (visualization, multi-cultural) Fables Lobel (main idea) Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish Obligado (alliteration, adverbs) Fancy Nancy OConnor (personal narrative, vocabulary) Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! Heller 425 (interjections, conjunctions) Fiddlin Sam Dengler (foreshadow, inference, Missouri Ozarks) Fireflies! Brinkloe (imagery, inference, memorable language, strong theme, personal narrative) First Day Jitters Danneberg (prediction, school, teachers) Fishing in the Air Creech (personal narrative) Fly Away Home Bunting (inference, personal narrative, text/world, relationships, homeless) Fortunately Charlip (hyperbole) Four Famished Foxes Edwards (alliteration) Freedom Summer Wiles (Civil Rights, prejudice, simile/metaphor) Frog Prince Continued Scieszka (irony, main idea, plot) Full Belly Bowl Aylesworth (foreshadow, irony) Garden of Abdul Gasazi Van Allsburg (inference, predict) Gardener, The Stewart (inference) George vs. George Schanzer 973.2 (point of view, American Revolution) Gift of the Crocodile: a Cinderella Story Sierra 398.2 (foreshadow, irony) Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Goble (imagery, simile, Native Americans) Gingerbread Cowboy Squires 398.21 (character traits, parody) Giving Tree Silverstein (personification, point of view, strong theme, voice) Gleam and Glow Bunting (text/world, voice)
Go Hang a Salami! Im a Lasagna Hog! Agee 793.73 (palindromes) Goin Someplace Special McKissack (personal narrative) Going Home Bunting (text/self, personal narrative) Golden Coin Ada (irony) Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians Hopkins (libraries) Golem Wisniewski 398.21 (imagery, foreshadow, inference, irony, paradox, simile) Grandfather Buffalo Arnosky (foreshadow, inference) Grandfathers Journey Say (foreshadow, irony, personal narrative, prediction, questioning) Grandma Essies Covered Wagon Williams (simile/metaphor, Missouri) Grandpas Face Greenfield (character relationships, memorable language) Grandpas Teeth Clements (questioning, strong ending, mystery, humor) Great Kapok Tree Cherry (main idea, point of view, text/world) Great Shaking Carson (point of view, earthquakes, Missouri) Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective? Cleary 428.2 (adjectives) Harvey Potters Balloon Farm Nolen (grammar) Heartland Siebert (point of view, poetry) Heron Street Turner (onomatopoeia, wetlands, ecology) Hickory Chair Fraustino (personal narrative) Hello, Harvest Moon Fletcher (personification, memorable language, visualization, simile/metaphor, word choice) Help Me, Mr. Mutt Stevens (point of view) Hey Al Yorinks (strong beginning & ending) Hogula, Dread Pig of Night Gralley (inference) Home Place Dragonwagon (flashback, imagery, memorable language, word choice) Home Run Burleigh (mood) Honest to Goodness Truth McKissack (foreshadow, honesty) How Many Days to America? Bunting (inference, questioning) I Aint Gonna Paint No More Beaumont (prediction) I and You and Dont Forget Who Cleary 428.2 (pronouns) If You Take a Mouse to the Movies Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) If You Give a Moose a Muffin Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) If You Give a Pig a Pancake Numeroff (cause/effect, personification, prediction) Im in Charge of Celebrations Baylor (memorable language) Imogenes Antlers Small (strong ending) Important Book Brown (main idea, supporting details) In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms Terban 428.1 (idioms) In November Rylant (simile/metaphor) Ira Sleeps Over Waber (prediction, text/self) Jim and the Beanstalk Coward-McCann (parody) Joseph had a Little Overcoat Taback (main idea) Julius, the Baby of the World Henkes (irony, text/self) Jumanji Van Allsburg (memorable language, prediction, story sequence) Just a Dream Van Allsburg (mood) Just Plain Fancy Polacco (foreshadow, prediction, Amish) Just One Flick of a Finger Lorbiecki (bullies, guns, foreshadow, inference, simile, metaphor) Kat Kong Pilkey (summarizing) Kate and the Beanstalk Osborne 398.2 (inference, simile, hyperbole) Keeping Quilt Polacco (main idea, personal narrative, point of view, symbolism, text/self) King Bidgoods in the Bathtub Wood (story sequence, strong ending) Kites Sail High Heller 428.2 (verbs) Knots on a Counting Rope Martin (foreshadow, visualize, questioning, simile, metaphor, infer) L is for Library Terry (ABC books, libraries) Lady in a Box McGovern (text/world, compassion, voice) Langstons Train Ride Burleigh (Civil War, MLK, Jr., Missouri poet) Legend of the Bluebonnet dePaola (summarizing) Letting Swift River Go Yolen (memorable language, personal narrative)
Librarian Who Measured the Earth Lasky 921 Era (questioning) Library Mouse Kirk (libraries) Lies and Other Tall Tales Myers (hyperbole) Like Jake and Me Jukes (characters, foreshadow, similes, metaphors, setting, fact/fiction, spiders) Lillys Purple Plastic Purse Henkes (character traits, strong theme, text/self, main idea) Lillys Big Day Henkes (character traits) Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime; More about Nouns Cleary (nouns) Lion and the Mouse Pinkney (onomatopoeia, wordless) Little Red Cowboy Hat Lowell 398.2 (hyperbole, inference, onomatopoeia, parody, simile) Lotus Seed Garland (memorable language, questioning) M is for Mischief Ashman (alliteration) Many Luscious Lollipops Heller 428.2 (adjectives) Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native Americans Bruchac (ABC books) Mary Celeste, The Yolen (questioning, historical fiction, mystery) Maxs Words Banks (vocabulary) Memory Box Bahr (memorable language, personal narrative, character, strong theme) Memory String Bunting (personal narrative, simile, foreshadow, imagery, inference) Midnight in the Mountains Lawson (memorable language) Million FishMore or Less McKissack (foreshadow, hyperbole, inference) Mine, All Mine Heller 428.2 (pronouns) Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink, What is a Noun? Cleary 428.2 (nouns) Ming Lo Moves a Mountain Lobel (plot) Mirette on the High Wire McCully (inference, courage, synthesis) Mirandy and Brother Wind McKissack (personal narrative, word choice) Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster Frasier (vocabulary, word choice) Miss Myrtle Frag the Grammar Nag Bailey (grammar) Miss Rumphius Cooney (character traits, ecology, visualization) Miss Smiths Incredible Storybook Garland (literacy) Miss Spiders ABC Kirk (ABC books) Mississippi Siebert (personification, point of view, S.S., science, poetry) Mitten, The Brett 398.2 (story sequence, plot) Monkey Business Edwards (idioms) Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom Weatherford (inference) Mountain Wedding Gibbons (cooperation) Mr. George Baker Hest (word choice, literacy, elderly) Mrs. Katz and Tush Polacco (text/self) Mrs. Mack Polacco (text/self) My Great-Aunt Arizona Houston 921 Hug (character traits, compare/contrast, text/self) My Light Bang (onomatopoeia, sun, electricity) My Momma had a Dancing Heart Gray (mem. lang, strong beginning/ending, personal narr.) My Momma Likes to Say Brennan-Nelson 398.9 (idioms) My Prairie Christmas Harvey (personal narrative) My Rotten Red-headed Older Brother Polacco (text/self, personal narrative, compare/contrast) Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs dePaola (text/self, death, elderly) Napping House Wood (cause/effect, visualization) New Yorks Bravest Osborne (text/world, Sept. 11) Night Boat to Freedom Raven (imagery, inference, simile, metaphor) Night in the Country Rylant (strong beginning, text/world, visualization) Night Noises Fox (similes, onomatopoeia, elderly) Night Tree Bunting (foreshadow) Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street Schotter (memorable language) Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Pulver (nouns, verbs) Odd Velvet Whitcomb (character traits, strong theme) Officer Buckle and Gloria Rathmann (personification) Old Black fly Aylesworth (ABC books, adjectives, verbs) Old Henry Blos (irony)
Old Jakes Skirts Slonim (simile/metaphor, elderly, grammar) Oliver Button is a Sissy dePaola (text/self, teasing, being oneself, personal narrative) Olivia Falconer (character traits) Once there was a BullFrog Walton (compound words, word choice) Other Side Woodson (text/world, prejudice, friendship, voice, questioning) Our Librarian Wont Tell Us Anything Buzzeo (libraries) Owen Henkes (text/self) Owl Moon Yolen (imagery, mood, memorable language, personal narrative, simile, metaphor) Pain and the Great One Blume (character traits, point of view, text/self) Passage to Freedom: the Sugihara Story Mochizuki 921 Sug (foreshadow, point of view) Perfect Puppy for Me OConnor (fact/fiction) Picnic in October Bunting (text/world) Pig Tale Oxenbury (irony) Pink and Say Polacco (questioning, Civil War) Plot Chickens Auch (writing) Plump and Perky Turkey Bateman (alliteration, irony, parallelism) Polar Express Van Allsburg (questioning, strong ending) Popcorn Book dePaola (fact/fiction) Possum Magic Fox (inference) Prairie Alphabet Bannatyne-Cugnet (ABC books) Prairie Primer A-Z Stutson (ABC books) Pumpkin Runner Arnold (character traits, perseverance) Pumpkin Soup Cooper (verbs) Pumpkins Ray (visualization) Punctuation Celebration Bruno (punctuation) Q is for Duck Elting (ABC books) Quick as a Cricket Wood (simile) Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky Cleary 428.2 (adjectives) Raft, The LaMarche (inference, personal narrative) Rag Coat Mills (character traits, strong ending, inference, prediction) Railroad John and the Red Rock Run Crunk (simile/metaphor) Rattlesnake Dance Dewey 597.96 (fact/fiction) Rattletrap Car Root (Onomatopoeia) Recess Queen ONeill (bullies, verbs) Red Flower Goes West Turner (inference, simile, metaphor, symbol, Western Movement) Redcoats and Petticoats Kirkpatrick (foreshadow, inference, Revolutionary War) Relatives Came Rylant (character traits, memorable language, personal narrative, strong beginning) River Friendly, River Wild Kurtz (cause/effect, imagery, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia) River Ran Wild Cherry (text/world) Romeow and Drooliet Laden (text to text, parody) Roxaboxen McLerran (mood, personal narrative, text/self) Ruby the Copycat Rathman (foreshadow, prediction, self-esteem) Rudis Pond Bunting (character relationships, death) S is for Story, a Writers Alphabet Hershenhorn (writing, all parts) Sachiko Means Happiness Sakai (foreshadow, inference, Alzheimers) Sailing Home Rand (personal narrative) Salamander Room Mazer (visualization) Scarlet Stocking Spy Noble (questioning, American Revolution) School Lunch Kelley (irony) Science Fair Day Plourde (onomatopoeia) Scoop: an Exclusive by Monty Molenski Kelly (voice, mystery, word choice) Seashore Book Zolotow (memorable language, mood, visualization) Secret-Keeper Coombs (foreshadow, imagery, inference, irony, simile, metaphor) Secret to Freedom Vaughan (simile/metaphor, slavery) Sheila Rae, the Brave Henkes (text/self) Shelf Elf Helps Out Hopkins 372.4 (libraries)
Shes Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head Lasky (inference, synthesis) Shoes from Grandpa Fox (inference) Sierra Siebert (point of view, mountains, animals, cause & effect) Silent Letters, Loud and Clear - Pulver Sign Painter Say (imagery, inference, point of view) Sky Tree Locker (memorable language) Smoky Night Bunting (synthesis, strong theme, text/world) Snow Day! Laminack (prediction, strong ending) Snow Sounds: An Onomatopoeic Story Johnson (onomatopoeia) Snowflake Bentley Martin 921 Ben (imagery, simile, biography) Some Smug Slug Edwards (alliteration) Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Spinelli (irony, inference, prediction, plot) Someday a Tree Bunting (foreshadow, inference, text/world) Something to Tell the Grandcows Spinelli (point of view, Adm. Bryd, South Pole) Song and Dance Man Ackerman (character traits, simile/metaphor, elderly) Sophies Masterpiece Spinelli (point of view) Stellaluna Cannon (compare/contrast, fact/fiction) Storm Book Zolotow (mood) Story of Jumping Mouse Steptoe 398.2 (synthesis) Story with Pictures Kanninen (elements of story, satire) Stranger, The Van Allsburg (inference, questioning, strong ending) Strega Nona dePaola (foreshadow) Strong to the Hoop Coy (strong ending) Sue MacDonald had a Book Tobin (vowels) Summer My Father was Ten Brisson (strong ending, honesty, personal narrative, text/self) Sunday Outing Pinkney (text/self) Sunshine Home Bunting (character relationships, strong theme, death) Swamp Angel Zelinsky (simile/metaphor) Sweet Tooth Palatini (voice) Sweetest Fig Van Allsburg (irony, inference, strong ending) Swimmy Lionni (prediction, cooperation) Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig (foreshadow, imagery, personification, symbol, question) Tadpoles Promise Ross (strong endings, food chain) Tar Beach Ringold (personal narrative) Teammates Golenbock 796.3 (inference, prejudice) Terrific Agee (satire) Thank You, Mr. Falker Polacco (literacy, personal narrative, text/self, strong beginning & ending) That Book Woman Henson (libraries, literacy) Thats Good! Thats Bad! Cuyler (cause/effect, verb choice, onomatopoeia, adjectives) Theres a Frog in my Throat Leedy (idioms) Things That are Most in the World Barrett (adjectives, superlatives) Those Shoes Boelts (text/world, self-worth) Three Little Javelinas Lowell (plot, text to text) Three Little Pigs (plot, text to text) Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Trivazas (strong ending) Three Questions (questioning) Three Silly Billies Palatini (onomatopoeia, parody) Through Grandpas Eyes MacLachlan (personal narrative, point of view) Thunder Cake Polacco (personal narrative, strong beginning, visualization) Thunder Rose Nolen (hyperbole, imagery, tall tale, vocabulary, adjectives) Tight Times Hazen (inference, mood, questioning, point of view) To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb? Cleary 428.2 (verbs) Tomorrows Alphabet Shannon (ABC books) Too Hot to Hoot! Terban 818 (palindromes) Too Many Tamales Soto (inference, honesty, personal narrative) Tops and Bottoms Stevens 398.2 (sequence)
Tough Cookie Wisniewski (satire, parody, simile, point of view) Toughest Cowboy Frank (simile, metaphor, prediction, point of view, strong ending, tall tale) Town Mouse, Country Mouse Brett (fairy tales, city life, country life) Train to Somewhere Bunting (strong ending, strong theme, character relationships, orphan train, questioning) True Story of the Three Little Pigs Scieszka (parody, point of view, character traits) Turtles Penguin Day Gorbachev (fact/fiction, strong ending, penguins) Two Bad Ants Van Allsburg (point of view, visualization, prediction) Two Mrs. Gibsons Igus (personal narrative) Uncle Willy and the Soup Kitchen DeSalvo-Ryan (text/world) Under, Over, by the Clover: What is a Preposition? Cleary 428.2 (prepositions) Understanding Poetry: Metaphors, Similes, and Other Word Pictures Fandel 808 Undone Fairy Tale Lendler (satire) Up North at the Cabin Chall (imagery, simile, metaphor, text/self) Velveteen Rabbit Williams (personification) Village of Round and Square Houses Grifalconi (summarizing) Voices in the Park Browne (foreshadow, inference, point of view, word choice, voice) Vowel Family, a Tale of Lost Letters - Walker Wacky Wedding Edwards (ABC books, alliteration) Wall, The Bunting (Vietnam Memorial, personal narrative, questioning, text/world, point of view) Water Dance Locker (memorable language, point of view, water cycle, visualization) Wednesday Surprise Bunting (inference, personal narrative, predict, characters, literacy, ending) Wemberly Worried Henkes (irony) Were Going on a Bear Hunt Rosen (onomatopoeia) What Happened to Marions Book? Berg (libraries) What Marion Taught Willis Berg (libraries, Dewey decimal system) What Pete Ate A-Z Kalman (ABC books, alliteration) When I Was Young in the Mountains Rylant (character traits, per. narr, point of view, text/self) When Jessie Came Across the Sea Hest (questioning) When Marion Copied Berg (plagiarism) Where the Wild Things Are Sendak (cause/effect, inference, hyperbole, plot, story sequence) White Dynamite and Curly Kidd Martin (inference, mood) Whitefish Will Rides Again! Yorinks (alliteration, hyperbole, simile, inference) Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And Other Oxymorons Agee 818 (oxymorons) Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears Aardema (cause/effect, inference) Why the Banana Split Walton (homonyms) Why the Chicken Crossed the Road Macaulay (cause/effect) Widows Broom Van Allsburg (inference) Wild Boars Cook Rosoff (simile/metaphor, adjectives) Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox (strong beginning, strong ending, text/self ) Wilma Unlimited ) Krull 921 Rud (strong beginning, perseverance) Worrywarts Edwards (alliteration) Wreck of the Zephyr Van Allsburg (flashback, inference) Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian- Deedy (foreshadow, inference, simile, irony) Your Move Bunting (text/self, text/world, gangs) Yummy, Eight Favorite Fairy Tales Cousins 398.8 (fairy tales) Z was Zapped Van Allsburg 411 (adverbs, ABC books) ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale Gershator 398.24 (onomatopoeia, verbs)
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