Delivery of the Day
The latest books John plucked from the book drop:
I was totally smitten with Here Comes the Garbage Barge written by Jonah Winter and Illustrated by Red Nose Studio. It's "a mostly true and completely stinky story that's sure to make you say 'Pee-yew!'" about trash from Islip, Long Island, that had nowhere to go. It's a NYT Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. A GREAT book to read any day but perfect for Earth Day and introducing recycling to little ones. Amazing artwork. (If you're a teacher and looking for a K-5 book for a One Book, One School type of program, I think this could be it! A great lesson in responsibility.) If you're an artist, you MUST watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKag0LPVISA
Have you seen Mirror by Jeannie Baker? Another unique illustrated book. It's published by Candlewick so you know you're in for a treat. Besides the first page, it's a wordless picture book that shows a day in the lives of two families living in North Africa and Australia. So different yet very much like one another. It's fun to read both stories side-by-side reading one left to right and the other right to left.
Adventure Annie is adorable. A perfect picture book in every way. Loved it. A must read for kindergarten. Toni Buzzeo is simply amazing and a must-have for school visits.
Pobble's Way is beautifully written by Simon Van Booy and illustrated by Wendy Edelson. Both are new names to me. Father/daughter walking through the woods on a quiet, snowy evening when Pobble loses her mitten. The animals that find it take guesses as to what the pink object can be. Very cute. I would have loved sharing this with my first and second graders and it lends itself well to creative writing and art activities.
Lulu's Piano Lessons was timely for me as Matthew seems to want to do anything and everything else BUT practice his saxophone. I was happily reading along and then it was over super quick. Poof. I just noticed it's written by Alan Alda's wife, Arlene. (Illustrated by Lisa Desimini) Arlene has fourteen children's books published? Wow. I'm suddenly curious to see them so I'm off to dig around Amazon a bit.
I was totally smitten with Here Comes the Garbage Barge written by Jonah Winter and Illustrated by Red Nose Studio. It's "a mostly true and completely stinky story that's sure to make you say 'Pee-yew!'" about trash from Islip, Long Island, that had nowhere to go. It's a NYT Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. A GREAT book to read any day but perfect for Earth Day and introducing recycling to little ones. Amazing artwork. (If you're a teacher and looking for a K-5 book for a One Book, One School type of program, I think this could be it! A great lesson in responsibility.) If you're an artist, you MUST watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKag0LPVISA
Have you seen Mirror by Jeannie Baker? Another unique illustrated book. It's published by Candlewick so you know you're in for a treat. Besides the first page, it's a wordless picture book that shows a day in the lives of two families living in North Africa and Australia. So different yet very much like one another. It's fun to read both stories side-by-side reading one left to right and the other right to left.
Adventure Annie is adorable. A perfect picture book in every way. Loved it. A must read for kindergarten. Toni Buzzeo is simply amazing and a must-have for school visits.
Pobble's Way is beautifully written by Simon Van Booy and illustrated by Wendy Edelson. Both are new names to me. Father/daughter walking through the woods on a quiet, snowy evening when Pobble loses her mitten. The animals that find it take guesses as to what the pink object can be. Very cute. I would have loved sharing this with my first and second graders and it lends itself well to creative writing and art activities.
Lulu's Piano Lessons was timely for me as Matthew seems to want to do anything and everything else BUT practice his saxophone. I was happily reading along and then it was over super quick. Poof. I just noticed it's written by Alan Alda's wife, Arlene. (Illustrated by Lisa Desimini) Arlene has fourteen children's books published? Wow. I'm suddenly curious to see them so I'm off to dig around Amazon a bit.