Author: Gary Blackwood
Title: The Shakespeare stealer
Illustrator: Gary Blackwood
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Hard work pays off
Primary and Secondary characters: Widge
Awards, date of publication: 2000
Publishing company: Puffin Books
Fourteen-year-old orphan Widge works for a mean and unscrupulous master who goes by the name of Falconer. Ordered to steal the script for Hamlet, Widge is taken to London and forced to attend a performance of the play. Instead of concentrating on stealing the script, he becomes engrossed in the show. Reluctantly, Widge admits his failure to Falconer and is told to return until his mission is accomplished. Nothing goes as planned and a very surprised Widge finds himself an accepted member of the backstage crew. Once a lonely outcast, he has friends and a place to call home for the first time in his life. You could use this book when discussing the dynamics of a story. This book has many ups and downs and would be a great example of this.
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Chapter Book-8 Section 3
Author: Janell Cannon
Title: Stellaluna
Illustrator: Janell Cannon
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Overcoming obstacles
Primary and Secondary characters: Stellaluna
Awards, date of publication: 1993
Publishing company:Harcourt's Childrens Books
Stellaluna is a baby fruit bat happily flying along with her mother when an owl attacks. The poor little bat is knocked out of her mother's grasp and lands in a birds' nest. The mother bird accepts Stellaluna as long as she acts like a bird, not a bat. Soon enough, Stellaluna learns to eat bugs and stop hanging by her feet. When she finally has a chance to show her bird siblings, Pip, Flutter and Flap, what life as a bat is like, they are left all in a muddle:How can we be so different and feel so much alike. This story is one that the children can relate to. If they know people who are different colored than them or a different gender.
Title: Stellaluna
Illustrator: Janell Cannon
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Overcoming obstacles
Primary and Secondary characters: Stellaluna
Awards, date of publication: 1993
Publishing company:Harcourt's Childrens Books
Stellaluna is a baby fruit bat happily flying along with her mother when an owl attacks. The poor little bat is knocked out of her mother's grasp and lands in a birds' nest. The mother bird accepts Stellaluna as long as she acts like a bird, not a bat. Soon enough, Stellaluna learns to eat bugs and stop hanging by her feet. When she finally has a chance to show her bird siblings, Pip, Flutter and Flap, what life as a bat is like, they are left all in a muddle:How can we be so different and feel so much alike. This story is one that the children can relate to. If they know people who are different colored than them or a different gender.
Chapter Book-9 Section 3
Author: Gary Paulsen
Title: Hatchet
Illustrator: Gary Paulsen
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Dedication
Primary and Secondary characters: Brian
Awards, date of publication: 2007
Publishing company: Simon and Schuster
The story is about Brian, 13, and how he manages to survive 54 days in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash. Brian was flying to visit his father when the pilot dies of a heart attack in mid-flight. Brian crash lands the plane into a small lake and swims out of the wreckage. He has his clothing, a tattered windbreaker and a hatchet. The novel takes us through Brian's days, how he learns patience through his experiences with failures and small successes: building a fire, fishing and hunting, making his shelter a safe one. He endures a porcupine attack, a tornado and being utterly alone for almost two months. This is a tale of adventure but, it is also a tale of character growth. You could use this book when teaching about characters. For example, round or flat.
Title: Hatchet
Illustrator: Gary Paulsen
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Dedication
Primary and Secondary characters: Brian
Awards, date of publication: 2007
Publishing company: Simon and Schuster
The story is about Brian, 13, and how he manages to survive 54 days in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash. Brian was flying to visit his father when the pilot dies of a heart attack in mid-flight. Brian crash lands the plane into a small lake and swims out of the wreckage. He has his clothing, a tattered windbreaker and a hatchet. The novel takes us through Brian's days, how he learns patience through his experiences with failures and small successes: building a fire, fishing and hunting, making his shelter a safe one. He endures a porcupine attack, a tornado and being utterly alone for almost two months. This is a tale of adventure but, it is also a tale of character growth. You could use this book when teaching about characters. For example, round or flat.
Chapter Book-7 Section 3
Author: E.B. White
Title: Charlotte's Web
Illustrator: E.B. White
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Determination
Primary and Secondary characters: Fern, Wilbur, Charolette
Awards, date of publication: 1989
Publishing company:
Summary: one morning at the breakfast table, A young girl named Fern watches her father leave their home with an ax in his hand. Fern then asks her mother where he is going. Her mother then tells her that her father is going to kill the runt that was born last night. Fern then talks her father into saving the pig. The pig is named Wilbur and is moved to a farm down the street. This is where Wilbur meets Charlotte who is a spider. One day Wilbur finds out that he is going to be fattened up so he can be ate for dinner. Charlotte begins spinning webs that say words like "radiant" so that the men will not eat him. It works and the men do not eat him. Unfortunately, Charlotte dies but hatches eggs so that Wilbur will still have friends. This book could be used when introducing popular literature.
Title: Charlotte's Web
Illustrator: E.B. White
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Determination
Primary and Secondary characters: Fern, Wilbur, Charolette
Awards, date of publication: 1989
Publishing company:
Summary: one morning at the breakfast table, A young girl named Fern watches her father leave their home with an ax in his hand. Fern then asks her mother where he is going. Her mother then tells her that her father is going to kill the runt that was born last night. Fern then talks her father into saving the pig. The pig is named Wilbur and is moved to a farm down the street. This is where Wilbur meets Charlotte who is a spider. One day Wilbur finds out that he is going to be fattened up so he can be ate for dinner. Charlotte begins spinning webs that say words like "radiant" so that the men will not eat him. It works and the men do not eat him. Unfortunately, Charlotte dies but hatches eggs so that Wilbur will still have friends. This book could be used when introducing popular literature.
Picture Book-6 Section 3
Author: Roald Dahl
Title: James and the giant peach
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Illustration
Theme: Majic
Primary and Secondary characters: James-Primary
Awards, date of publication: 2007
Publishing company: Puffin
James Henry Trotter leads a happy life until his parents are eaten by an escaped rhinoceros and he is thrust into the world of his nasty aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Then he becomes the saddest and loneliest boy you could find. When a little man in a dark green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals, the story takes off. James finds an "ancient peach tree that never gave any peaches," but with the magic crystals, it suddenly does! A single peach grows and keeps growing until James can climb inside and roll away from his horrible aunts to a whole new life. James befriends overgrown garden dwellers, Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider and Centipede. This book would be great to use in the classroom when discussing fantasy literature in a language arts class.
Title: James and the giant peach
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Illustration
Theme: Majic
Primary and Secondary characters: James-Primary
Awards, date of publication: 2007
Publishing company: Puffin
James Henry Trotter leads a happy life until his parents are eaten by an escaped rhinoceros and he is thrust into the world of his nasty aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Then he becomes the saddest and loneliest boy you could find. When a little man in a dark green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals, the story takes off. James finds an "ancient peach tree that never gave any peaches," but with the magic crystals, it suddenly does! A single peach grows and keeps growing until James can climb inside and roll away from his horrible aunts to a whole new life. James befriends overgrown garden dwellers, Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider and Centipede. This book would be great to use in the classroom when discussing fantasy literature in a language arts class.
Picture Book-5 Section 3
Author: Janell Cannon
Title: Crickwing
Illustrator: Janell Cannon
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Illutration
Theme: Bullying
Primary and Secondary characters: Ants, Crickwing, other animals
Awards, date of publication: 2005
Publishing company: Voyager
This is the story of an unfortunate cockroach named Crickwing, called this because of a twisted wing earned when fleeing a predator. Crickwing finds hes has a talent for food presentation: He is a food sculptor! He builds his creations out of roots, leaves and petals, and then eats them...when he can. Crickwing is constantly thwarted by lizards, ocelots and food-stealing monkeys. As he watches thousands of busy leaf-cutting ants, he wonders why isnt anyone bothering these little bullies. Thus, a bully is born. Crickwing harasses the ants until their Queen orders him to be captured and offered as a sacrifice to the army ants. Luckily, kind leaf-cutters set him free, and he redeems himself by using his special talents to rid the leaf-cutters of the army ants once and for all. Cannon's illustrations are lush and invigorating, guaranteed to enrapture the most reluctant reader. This would be great to introduce bullying prevention. Teaching the students that bullying is not good. You could incorporate this book into almost any lesson.
Title: Crickwing
Illustrator: Janell Cannon
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Illutration
Theme: Bullying
Primary and Secondary characters: Ants, Crickwing, other animals
Awards, date of publication: 2005
Publishing company: Voyager
This is the story of an unfortunate cockroach named Crickwing, called this because of a twisted wing earned when fleeing a predator. Crickwing finds hes has a talent for food presentation: He is a food sculptor! He builds his creations out of roots, leaves and petals, and then eats them...when he can. Crickwing is constantly thwarted by lizards, ocelots and food-stealing monkeys. As he watches thousands of busy leaf-cutting ants, he wonders why isnt anyone bothering these little bullies. Thus, a bully is born. Crickwing harasses the ants until their Queen orders him to be captured and offered as a sacrifice to the army ants. Luckily, kind leaf-cutters set him free, and he redeems himself by using his special talents to rid the leaf-cutters of the army ants once and for all. Cannon's illustrations are lush and invigorating, guaranteed to enrapture the most reluctant reader. This would be great to introduce bullying prevention. Teaching the students that bullying is not good. You could incorporate this book into almost any lesson.
Chapter Book-6 Section 3
Author: David Almond
Title: My Dad's a Birdman
Illustrator: Polly Dunbar
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Creativity, Caring
Primary and Secondary characters: Daughter and Father
Awards, date of publication: 2008
Publishing company: Candlewick
Summary: In a rainy town in the north of England there is a strange thing happening. Lizzie's dad is now building a pair of wings, eating flies, and feathering his nest. Lizzie plays parent to her father's other children after their mother's death. Her father traps himself in his room until he finds purpose in the Great Human Bird Competition. He then lives just like a bird and wins the competition. Lizzie doesn't understand why he asks the way he does until he opens up to her and about how he feels. She then realizes that her mother's death is what has made him this way. This is a very creatively created book. It shows the love that Lizzie has for her father.This would be a great story to tell around Father's Day.
Title: My Dad's a Birdman
Illustrator: Polly Dunbar
Genre: Children's Literature
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Theme: Creativity, Caring
Primary and Secondary characters: Daughter and Father
Awards, date of publication: 2008
Publishing company: Candlewick
Summary: In a rainy town in the north of England there is a strange thing happening. Lizzie's dad is now building a pair of wings, eating flies, and feathering his nest. Lizzie plays parent to her father's other children after their mother's death. Her father traps himself in his room until he finds purpose in the Great Human Bird Competition. He then lives just like a bird and wins the competition. Lizzie doesn't understand why he asks the way he does until he opens up to her and about how he feels. She then realizes that her mother's death is what has made him this way. This is a very creatively created book. It shows the love that Lizzie has for her father.This would be a great story to tell around Father's Day.
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