Tag: #nfpb2015
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Top 10 Books I Still Need to Read for the Mock Sibert
The 2015 Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge is hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy. Visit Alyson’s blog to discover wonderful nonfiction picture book titles. The Robert F. Sibert Informational Award, which honors the most distinguished informational books published for children, is one of my favorite ALA Youth Media Awards: the books that win are consistently among the…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Women Who Broke the Rules #nfpb2015
One of my favorite reading challenges is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to join the fun and discover the incredible variety of nonfiction picture books. Kathleen Krull’s new series, Women Who Broke the Rules, fills a much-needed book gap for the early chapter book set: entertaining nonfiction chapter books. I…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: 16 Can’t Miss Read-Alouds #nfpb2015
I’ve always read a lot of nonfiction aloud to my son: it’s one of my main strategies for teaching him about the world and helping him grow into a person full of wonder and curiosity. Nonfiction picture books are one of my favorite genres, and my own reading life is fairly balanced between fiction and…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Twenty Titles for Upper Elementary #nfpb2015
Kid Lit Frenzy hosts my favorite reading challenge, the 2015 Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. This week’s list was inspired by a pre-service teacher taking my online Children’s Literature class. Savannah is reading picture books for our class and enjoying them but wants to be sure she’s…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Mentor Texts to Teach Craft, Style, Voice #nfpb2015
Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge is my favorite reading challenge. Be sure to visit Alyson’s blog to discover more wonderful titles. Last week, I shared ten recommendations for a starter collection of nonfiction picture books, appropriate for K-16 classrooms. (To bring your growing collection to a total of 20, check out Carrie Gelson’s…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: A Starter Kit for Teachers New to Nonfiction #nfpb2015
This book list was inspired by a recent post at Kid Lit Frenzy, the wonderful blog that hosts the annual nonfiction picture book challenge. After a professional development presentation on using nonfiction picture books as mentor texts and a follow-up blog post, Alyson received many requests for lists of recommended books from teachers. She didn’t…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: 10 Books I Want to Add to My Classroom Library #nfpb2015
My favorite reading challenge is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. I don’t have a dedicated classroom, so technically these are books I want to buy for my office library. My lending library, I call it. It’s a small space dominated by four large bookshelves…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Enormous Smallness #nfpb2015
My favorite reading challenge is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge 2015. Be sure to visit Alyson’s blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Enormous Smallness: A Story of E.E. Cummings is a longer (64 page) picture book biography of the poet ee cummings. Cummings is not necessarily an obvious subject for a children’s…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Scarlett the Cat to the Rescue #nfpb2015
My favorite reading challenge is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. My regular readers know I feel about cats. I lurve them. In big piles or scatterings. Cats here and there, everywhere. And with six of them, it often does feel like cats here, there, everywhere,…
-
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Boys of Steel #nfpb2015
One of my favorite reading challenges is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman is an engaging, personable account of the creation of perhaps the world’s most famous superhero. The writer of the first Superman comic, Jerry Siegel, and…
the dirigible plum 