Each library time begins with a read-aloud. Practicing listening for details is an important literacy skill!
A few of the titles that classes are listening to are
January is always an exciting time in the world of literature for children and young adults. The Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King awards are announced every January at the mid-winter conference of the American Library Association. The winning and honor books from January, 2011 are listed below.
Coretta Scott King Book Awards
John Steptoe New Talent Awards
Victoria Bond & T.R Simon for Zora & Me
Sonia Lynn Sadler for illustrations of Seeds of Change
Illustrator Winner: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier
Illustrator Honor: Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
Author Winner: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia
Author Honor: Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers; Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes; Yummy by G. Neri
Caldecott Medal
Winner: A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead
Honor: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier; Interrupting Chicken illustrated by David Ezra Stein
Newbery Medal
Winner: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Honor: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman; Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus; One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia; Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
A few of the titles that classes are listening to are
- Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems
- The Night Worker by Kate Banks
- Hansel and Gretel retold by Rachel Isadora
- Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry Allard
- Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy
- Hide and Sheep by Andrea Beaty
- This School Year Will Be the Best! by Kay Winters
- At This Very Moment by Jim Arnosky
- Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates
January is always an exciting time in the world of literature for children and young adults. The Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King awards are announced every January at the mid-winter conference of the American Library Association. The winning and honor books from January, 2011 are listed below.
Coretta Scott King Book Awards
John Steptoe New Talent Awards
Victoria Bond & T.R Simon for Zora & Me
Sonia Lynn Sadler for illustrations of Seeds of Change
Illustrator Winner: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier
Illustrator Honor: Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow illustrated by Javaka Steptoe
Author Winner: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia
Author Honor: Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers; Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes; Yummy by G. Neri
Caldecott Medal
Winner: A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead
Honor: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier; Interrupting Chicken illustrated by David Ezra Stein
Newbery Medal
Winner: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Honor: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman; Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus; One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia; Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm