Title: Let’s Go for a Drive! Author and Illustrator: Mo Willems
Book Length: 64 Pages
Category of Book: ALA Children’s Notable Books
Citation: Willems, M. (2012). Let's go for a drive!. New York, NY: Hyperion Books for Children.
Genre/Type: Humorous Fiction, Readers, Picture BookSummary: Gerald and Piggie are packing for a trip they are planning. The book goes through Gerald saying what they need and Piggie packing everything until they run into the one thing they don’t have but desperately need to go on their trip.
Awards: 2013 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award
How does this book relate to young children?
This can relate to children because they are just like Gerard and Piggie. The two of them are silly and excited about their trip, they plan and pack for the entire thing but then realizes they can’t actually go because neither of them can drive. Children do and plan things all the time that aren’t actually a realistic goal but they are able to use their imagination to put something fun together.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
This story is very repetitive and would be great for a reader’s theater. The children will love reading this book and repeating the funny phrases as the book progresses. It would also be a great time to help young children thing about trips, where could they be going? What do they need? What can they do instead of go on a trip?
Title: I Want My Hat Back Author and Illustrator: Jon Klassen
Book Length: 32 Pages
Category of Book: Theodore Seuss Geisel Award or Honor Books
Summary: A bear lost his hat and is looking everywhere to try and fine it. He almost gives up hope until he realizes he has seen his hat recently.
Awards: Texas 2X2 Reading List, Theodor Seuss Geisel Beginning Reader Honor, 2012, E.B. White Read Aloud Award, 2012, Bank Street Irma Black Awards, 2012, ALA Notable Children's Books, 2012, The Horn Book Fanfare, 2012, New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Books, 2011
How does this book relate to young children?
This book can show kids that it is a bad idea to lie to people, especially if those people are older and/or bigger than you are.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
Title: Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Partners Author Erica Silverman Painted by: Betsy Lewin
Title: I Want My Hat Back Author and Illustrator: Jon Klassen
Book Length: 32 Pages
Category of Book: Theodore Seuss Geisel Award or Honor Books
Citation: Klassen, J. (2011). I want my hat back. Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Genre/Type: Comedy, Fiction, Animal Picture BookSummary: A bear lost his hat and is looking everywhere to try and fine it. He almost gives up hope until he realizes he has seen his hat recently.
Awards: Texas 2X2 Reading List, Theodor Seuss Geisel Beginning Reader Honor, 2012, E.B. White Read Aloud Award, 2012, Bank Street Irma Black Awards, 2012, ALA Notable Children's Books, 2012, The Horn Book Fanfare, 2012, New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Books, 2011
How does this book relate to young children?
This book can show kids that it is a bad idea to lie to people, especially if those people are older and/or bigger than you are.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
This book is color coded by speaker. The bear’s text is written in black ink and the rest of the characters are written to correspond with a color they are wearing. This makes it easy for a reader to identify which character is talking and it helps them follow the conversation with little difficulty. This would be a good book for partner reading of some sort, a large part of the book has repeated text where bear says the same thing, the character they are talking to is all that changes.
Book Length: 44 Pages
Category of Book: Theodore Seuss Geisel Award or Honor Books
Citation: Silverman, E. (2006). Cowgirl kate and cocoa: partner (B. Lewin, Illustrator). Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc.
Genre/Type: Beginning Reader Chapter Book, Fiction- Animals, ComedySummary: Cowgirl Kate and her best friend Cocoa, the horse, go through a lot together to show the true meaning of friendship. They get new shoes, play hide and seek, learn to rope a cow, and learn the importance of having a partner.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection. Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor, 2006.
How does this book relate to young children?
This story shows how important it is to have a best friend and how much fun you can have together.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
This is a great book to have individual readers read to themselves. This story is a chapter book with 4 individual chapters all involving Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa helping run their ranch with their partnership. This would be good for a reader that has started their journey into chapter books. The words and sentences are simple and words are repeated in some of the stories. For example, In story one, they repeatedly use the word horseshoe.
Book Length: 32 Pages
Category of Book: Theodore Seuss Geisel Award or Honor Books
Citation: Campbell, S. C. (2008). Wolfsnail: Backyard predator (S.C. Campbell and R.P. Campbell, Photographers). Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, Inc.
Genre/Type: Non-FictionSummary: Wolfsnail: A Bacckyard Predator tells the reader about the eating habits of the wolfsnail. It explains a typical trip to find a meal and it even explains what the wolfsnail eats and doesn’t eat. Told with real photographs to back up the text, it gives an interesting factual account of a wolfsnail finding food.
Awards: Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, 2009.
How does this book relate to young children?
This book is informative and will allow the children to learn about the eating habits of the wolfsnail. Many children, especially young boys, enjoy learning facts about random things, and this may be a topic they would like to become an “expert” on.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
This is a great book to use if you are doing a unit on bugs and snails. There are a lot of facts and information given within this book and it is done in short sentences with real photographs to back up the information being given. At the end of the book, more information is given as well as a glossary that defines any words used within the book that children may not understand. This would also be a great book for a child to read if they are interested in learning more about wolfsnails.
Title: Move Over, Rover! Author: Karen Beaumont Illustrator: Jane Dyer
Book Length: 40 Pages
Category of Book: Theodore Seuss Geisel Award or Honor Books
Citation: Beaumont, K. (2006). Move over, rover! (J. Dyer, Illustrator). Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc.
Genre/Type: Picture Book, Animals, Controlled VocabularySummary: Rover is in his dog house all alone until a storm starts when all of the animals want a place that’s warm to escape the storm. All the animals crowd into Rover’s doghouse until there is no more space, suddenly a terrible odor has the animals skittering, scampering, and scattering away from Rover’s doghouse unaware of the cause.
Awards: Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, 2007.
How does this book relate to young children?
The story teaches the importance of sharing with others. Rover is sharing his space with the other animals so they don’t have to sit outside in the rain.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
The book includes certain rhyme schemes so you can use the book to introduce poetry and have the students identify the rhyming words and scheme. You can also have the students help you read in the repetitive parts of the story, for example, “Make room, Raccoon! Skit-scat, Cat! Move over, Rover!”.
Also, the beginning paragraph of the page is the same throughout the majority of the book, the only difference is the animals they are talking about. You could do a reader’s theater with this part of the story.
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