Title: Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade Author and Illustrator: Melissa Sweet
Book Length: 40 Pages
Category of Book: Robert F. Sibert Award or Honor Books
Citation: Sweet, M. (2011). Balloons over broadway: The true story of the puppeteer of macy’s parade. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.
Genre/Type: Picture Book, BiographySummary: Every year during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, millions of people line the streets to glimpse the puppets that will be in the parade that year. These puppets are a tradition but many people do not realize how this magical feat became part of the parade and this book helps you see the work that went into creating these larger than life marionettes. The illustrations are very cartoonish but they are colored and drawn in a very exciting way. The illustrations and set up of the book draw children in and make them excited to learn the history of the puppets in the Macy’s parade. When Tony Sarg let the first puppet into the air, the illustration is a vertical, full page illustration showing the reader how important this was in the history of the parade.
Awards: 2012 Robert F.Sibert Medal Winner, Winner of the 2012 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award
How does this book relate to young children?
This book can show children that you can start dreaming big at a young age. If shows that if you push yourself hard enough and believe in yourself, you can make any of your dreams come true.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
This would be a great book to use right before Thanksgiving. Give the children a history of the puppeteer behind the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Once you have read the book, have them watch the parade and compare and contrast what they learned and what they see in the parade. What is the same? What has changed? There is a lot of information presented in each page and it allows the reader to pick and choose the information they want to get out of the book. This would be a good book to use for a partner read so the readers can easily see all the information on each page. If you were to do a read aloud, the children would have a hard time seeing the small bits and pieces on each page.
Title: We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Author and Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
Book Length: 88 Pages
Category of Book: Robert F. Silbert Award or Honor Books
Citation:
Genre/Type: Historical Non-Fiction
Summary: We are the Ship is a chronological telling of the negro baseball league from its inaguration until its decline with Jackie Robinson crossing over into the major leagues. The story has quotes scattered througout the story from negro league baseball players and a forward by Hank Aaron. This is a very inspirational story. The pictures are oil paintings and they are stunning! The pages are set up where one page is is text with the other side being a full page oin painting depicting what is being said in the text.
Awards: 2009 SIbert Medal, Coretta Scott King Award for Author and Illustrator Honor 2009, The Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Medalist 2009
How does this book relate to young children?
Children can relate to wanting to do an activity that they are told they cannot do whether it is because of their age or sizr. They can see what these men went through just to be able to play the game they love. It could give children perspective as far as life being unfair and reaching for your dreams.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
You could use this book for Black History Month (or any month...) or just for a child who is interested in baseball or the civil rights movement. It teaches kids about discrimination and racism and what it took to rise above it. Young children don't have the ability or stamina to read this by themselves. This would be good to read to them in chunks. The kids can even flip through the pictures and get a basic understanding of the story.
Book Length: 88 Pages
Category of Book: Robert F. Silbert Award or Honor Books
Citation:
Nelson, K. (2008). We are the ship: The story of negro league baseball. New York, NY: Jump at the Sun/ Hyperion Books for Children.
Genre/Type: Historical Non-Fiction
Summary: We are the Ship is a chronological telling of the negro baseball league from its inaguration until its decline with Jackie Robinson crossing over into the major leagues. The story has quotes scattered througout the story from negro league baseball players and a forward by Hank Aaron. This is a very inspirational story. The pictures are oil paintings and they are stunning! The pages are set up where one page is is text with the other side being a full page oin painting depicting what is being said in the text.
Awards: 2009 SIbert Medal, Coretta Scott King Award for Author and Illustrator Honor 2009, The Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature Medalist 2009
How does this book relate to young children?
Children can relate to wanting to do an activity that they are told they cannot do whether it is because of their age or sizr. They can see what these men went through just to be able to play the game they love. It could give children perspective as far as life being unfair and reaching for your dreams.
How would you share/use this book with young children?
You could use this book for Black History Month (or any month...) or just for a child who is interested in baseball or the civil rights movement. It teaches kids about discrimination and racism and what it took to rise above it. Young children don't have the ability or stamina to read this by themselves. This would be good to read to them in chunks. The kids can even flip through the pictures and get a basic understanding of the story.
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