Picture Book of the Day

Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!

Here’s what the kidlitosphere is reading this week…

1. Picture Book of the Day (I’m a Pill Bug) 
2. Audiobooker (A Little History of the World)
3. Mary Lee (Sisters & Brothers)
4. Sarah N. (Horses and Ponies)
5. Laura Salas (a finalist!)
6. The Well-Read Child (This is My Planet: The Kids’ Guide to Global Warming)
7. Karen’s Slice of Life (Riding to Washington)
8. propernoun.net (Science Poetry)
9. Lori Calabrese Writes (Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-up)
10. Abby the Librarian (Close to Shore)
11. World of Words (Dolley Madison saves George Washington)
12. Jules, 7-Imp (three amazing political women today in my post)
13. Becky (America Through A Lens)
14. Nancy I. Sanders (Research Tips)
15. I.N.K. (Don Brown on History: What’s the Point?)
16. Tricia (If You Hopped Like a Frog)
17. Anamaria (Secret World of Hildegard)
18. cloudscome (biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar)
19. Wendie’s Wanderings (Jabberwocky)
20. A Patchwork of Books (Bugs)

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

I’m a Pill Bug by Yukihisa Tokuda (Author) and Kiyoshi Takahasi (Illustrator) tells the life story of a pill bug in his own words:

On the count of three: one, two, three!

Ta-da! I roll myself into a ball!

Simple, bright collages bring the reader into the pill bug’s world. Teach the traits of ideas and voice as students write a story from another bug’s point of view.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing!

The winner of a signed copy of my picture book Delivery is:

Lori-Ann Phelan

Congratulations, Lori-Ann! I’ll send your book right away!

There will be another Poetry Friday drawing on April 25 for my bilingual board book Toddler Two/Dos anos.

El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day) is on April 30th.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Last week the Texas Library Association held its annual conference here in Dallas. Before it started, I hosted a Blogger’s Tea at the Adolphus Hotel.

I want to thank all of the publishers who sponsored the tea.  
They shared their authors and illustrators and LOTS of books!

August House came with Rob Cleveland’s How Tiger Got His Stripes

and Tim Tingle’s When Turtle Grew Feathers

Charlesbridge brought Mitali Perkins’ Rickshaw Girl 

and my book Wired

Lee and Low shared Ted and Betsy Lewin’s Horse Song

and Michell Lord’s A Song for Cambodia

Peachtree delighted with Janie Bynum’s I’ve Got an Elephant

Shirley Smith Duke’s No Bows

and Juanita Havill’s Grow

Kane/Miller also sponsored the tea with
No! That’s Wrong! by Zhaohua Ji and Cui Xu

and many more!

My thanks to all of you! It was wonderful afternoon.
(P.S. Camille has a photo of the tea sandwiches on her blog.)

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Today’s Poetry Friday Giveaway book is my picture book Delivery.

Email me your name and I’ll choose a winner on Monday.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler (Author) and R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator) begins…

Brother’s hands tap.
Sister’s hands snap.
Itty-bitty Baby’s hands
CLAP-CLAP-CLAP!

Teach the traits of ideas and word choice as students write their own song and dance piece.

This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by The Well-Read Child.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Truck Driver Tom by Monica Wellington follows a truck driver on his cross country journey to deliver a load of fresh fruits and vegetables. Children will enjoy seeing words made of letters cut from magazines and newspapers.

Tom loves to drive his big truck
VROOM, VROOM.

Teach the traits of voice and word choice as students write their own travel stories.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Raymond and Nelda by Barbara Bottner (Author) and Nancy Hayashi (Illustrator) are the best of frinds until…

One day, Nelda twirled for Raymond.
She fell.
Raymond collpased, giggling.

Teach the traits of ideas and sentence fluency as students write about a friend.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

In Selvakumar Knew Better by Virginia Kroll (Author) and Xianojun Li (Illustrator) the family dog knows a tsumani is coming, but no one in the family realizes it.

But Selvakumar knew better. The vibrations traveled up his padded paws. His skin prickled with fearful goosebumps from his black nose to his tufted tail.

Teach the traits of conventions and word choice as students write their own pet stories.

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops

Welcome to the Nonfiction Monday Round-up!

Here’s what the kidlitosphere is reading this week…

1. Picture Book of the Day (Outside and Inside Mummies) 
2. Laura Salas (Notes from a Conference) 
3. Lori Calabrese (Dizzy) 
4. inneedofchocolate (Usborne Little Encyclopedia of the Human Body) 
5. Abby the Librarian (Light Shining Through the Mist)
6. Becky Levine–(Pick Your Words Carefully)
7. I.N.K. (Kathleen Krull on New Books Bestselling and Otherwise)
8. Becky (How High Can We Climb?)
9. Wendie’s Wanderings (Take Me Out to the Ball Game)
10. Tricia (Animals, Animals)
11. Library & Literary Miscellany (A Long Way Gone)
12. Wendy [Postcards from Washington D.C]
13. We Love Children’s Books (Monarch and Milkweed)
14. Vijaya Bodach (The Monarch’s Progress: Poems with Wings

Six Trait Author Programs and Classroom Writing Workshops