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February Carnival of Children’s Literature
Comments (9)Welcome to the February Carnival of Children’s Literature! It’s Leap Year Day today, February 29th, an extra day to LEAP into a book!
Let’s start with authors and illustrators making the creative leap…
Cheryl Rainfield shares a good book – my original poem for Poetry Friday.
Fabulous Illustrator says I’m back from the SCBWI Winter Conference part III-Fun and Inspiration.
BLOGZONE invites picture book authors to the Book in A Month Club!
Rebecca Dean shows you How To Kick Writers Block.
Picture Book of the Day goes Inside: Helping Sophia.
Lori Calabrese Writes! talks to the author in Author Interview: Catherine Ipcizade; ‘Twas the Day Before Zoo Day.
My Readable Feast has Five questions for Sara Zarr, author of the YA novel Sweethearts.
Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act. reminds us If a Seven-Year-Old Can Do It, You Can Do It Too!
Wizards Wireless says, “Leap into a good book, but look after you leap!” Remember to Trust yourself.
Once a book is created, it leaps into the hands of eager readers…
The Well-Read Child lists 10 board books for babies parents can read to their young children.
Great New Books that Are a Must Read presents Children Read and Learn: New Book Does Both.
Bees Knees Reads the picture book Will You Carry Me?
Trivium Pursuit reads A is for Amicus by Johannah Stanford.
Young Readers presents Help Me, Mr. Mutt!
Adventures in Daily Living visits Bembo’s Zoo.
Bookwink has a Parallel Universes Booktalk.
Phoenix & Dragon Wings share their Willow May Book Review by SFC.
Becky’s Book Reviews reminds us that Chinese New Year also began this month, starting The Year of the Rat.
eFamilyBlogger reviews Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers by Francesca Gould.
Tea Party Girl reads about the way beauty heals in When Your Spirits are Low, I Wish You Beauty.
The PlanetEsme Plan: The Best New Children’s Books from Esme’s Shelf shares the nonfiction book How I Learned Geography.
Leap into a graphic novel…
Liz Jones writes A Post on the Joys of the Illustrated Novel.
A Year of Reading thinks many adults still need lots of encouragement to LEAP into a graphic novel, so here is a review of a new one: Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper
Some books leap into our world with sound…
Class Audio Books | MP3 Audio Books presents a New Audio Book for the Children.
Audiobooker invites you to Leap into Audiobooks: Carnival of Children’s Literature.
Leap with the teachers…
Read, Read, Read has Letters From Rapunzel by Sara Lewis Holmes.
The Reading Zone invites you to Leap into some Hot Books in my classroom!
The Miss Rumphius Effect helps us celebrate 2008 as the year of the frog by Leaping Into Books About Frogs (And Other Amphibians)
Help young readers leap into a book…
A Fuse #8 Production shines a Spotlight: Sue Stauffacher and examines the huge amount of work she’s put into helping teens and middle grade readers become literate.
Jen Robinson’s Book Page offer tips for parents and teachers to help reluctant readers to find their way in Helping Kids Learn to Enjoy Reading.
MotherReader invites you to Leap into books for the youngest readers and Leap into action for RIF! with Sturdy Books.
At ellsworth’s journal, the elephant and the cat explain the Paws for Reading program, where kids read to a dog.
You can leap into a book anywhere!
Bookstore Guide says, “One of our visitors recommended this nice kids bookstore in Madrid,” La Mar de Letras, Madrid.
Tip Diva shares Top Ten Tips – Building A Personal Library so you can organize your books at home.
So use this extra day to leap into a book!
Poetry Friday: Hickory Dickory Dock
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Hickory Dickory Dock by Keith Baker takes that mouse from 1:00 to midnight – and shows what really happened…
The clock struck one…
it’s time for fun!
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as your students write new verses for this nursery rhyme. (Use the student’s version as a reader’s theater script.)
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Writing and Ruminating.
Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for School?
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In Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for School? by Barney Saltzberg, Mother asks questions and Cornelius answers them…
Cornelius P. Mud, do you know what time it is?
YES!
Teach the traits of ideas and conventions as students write their own morning questions story.
When a Monster is Born
When a Monster Is Born by Sean Taylor (Author) and Nick Sharratt (Illustrator) is an either/or story
either it’s a faraway-in-the-forests monster, or…..it’s an under-your-bed monster.
Teach the traits of organization and conventions as students write their own either/or stories.
A Drive in the Country
A Drive in the Country by Michael J. Rosen (Author) and Marc Burckhardt (Illustrator) is a road trip story.
All five of us and our bassett hound, Shirley (she makes six); we load up the car for adventure. My mom fills the cooler with drinks and snacks. We cram our backpacks with playing cards and jars for keeping unusual bugs an Shirley’s treats, and for spending money, puzzle books, and comics.
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students write their own family trip story.
Nonfiction Monday Round-up
Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!
Here’s what the kidlitosphere is reading this week…
1. Picture Book of the Day (Hello, Bumblebee Bat)
2. Audiobooker (Hole in My Life)
3. Writing Children’s NF for the Ed. Market: Online Class
4. Just One More Book! KidLit Podcast (Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer)
5. Shelf Elf (Graphic Library Series)
6. Lori Calabrese Writes (It’s a Hummingbird’s Life)
7. dlanthomas (Where in the World?)
8. Marcie (World of Words)
9. Karen at Literate Lives (This is the Tree)
10. Abby the Librarian (Schuyler’s Monster)
11. A Fuse #8 Production (Women Daredevils)
12. Jeannine Atkins (Blurring the Lines of Nonfiction)
13. I.N.K. (David Schwartz on the magic of books)
14. Linda Bozzo (Detective)
15. Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast (Trailblazers of Swing)
16. Becky Levine (Anne Hutchinson’s Way by Jeannine Atkins)
16. Becky Levine (“I’ll Never Read Nonfiction Again!)
17. The Well-Read Child (The Discovery and Mystery of a Dinosaur Named Jane)
18. Tricia (Artist to Artist)
19. Becky’s Book Reviews (I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree)
20. Paradise Found (Booknolia)
21. web (Jewish Holidays All Year Round)
22. Fiona at Books and ‘Rocks (Science for love of story)
23. Reading and Breathing (Oh, Rats!)
24. Anamaria (A New Beginning: Spring)
25. Original Content (Math-terpieces)
26. Chicken Spaghetti (New Nonfiction Titles)
27. Practically Paradise (Weekly Reader)
28. A Patchwork of Books (Visual Geography Series)
29. Check It Out (Monday, Monday)
30. Kelly (Big A little a)
31. Wendie Old (Choosing what to write about)
Nonfiction Monday: Hello, Bumblebee Bat
Hello, Bumblebee Bat by Darrin Lunde (Author) and Patricia J. Wynne (Illustrator) interviews the one inch bat about his habits.
Bumblebee Bat,
how do you see at night?
I make a squeaky sound that
bounces back from whatever it hits.
I see by hearing.
Teach the traits of ideas and organization as students write their own animal interview book.
Hello, Bumblebee Bat is a 2008 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book!
Poetry Friday: birdsongs
Birdsongs by Betsy Franco (Author) and Steve Jenkins (Illustrator) tells the story of the birds who visit…
In the front yard, a red-capped woodpecker
is working on a hole-pocked pine tree.
He raps a tap dance with his beak, pecking 10 times as
he looks for breakfast bugs. tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat
Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as student write about sounds they hear in the neighborhood.
This week’s Poetry Friday is hosted by Big A little a.
Hair for Mama
In Hair for Mama by Kelly Tinkham (Author) and Amy Bates (Illustrator), Marcus worries about his Mama…
Mama said cancer was a disease. Some small part inside her was growing too quickly and too big and was crowding out the other parts she needed. Sounded to me like the weeds growing in Mama’s flower garden–crowding out the marigolds, petunias and snapdragons.
Teach the traits of sentence fluency and voice as students write about how they helped someone they know.
Ginger and Petunia
In Ginger and Petunia by Patricia Polacco a mix-up leads to a pet pig (Petunia) impersonating her owner.
The next morning Petunia went into Ginger’s closet. She put on one of Ginger’s elegant outfits. Getting Ginger’s makeup just right was the hardest part. She donned one of Ginger’s stunning silk scarves. Then the doorbell rang and Petunia saw through the peephole that it was Ginger’s first student of the day. Petunia let him in.
Teach the traits of ideas and conventions as students write their own tale of a pet who takes their place!
