February 2010

[Black History Month] [Chinese New Year]
[Presidents Day] [Valentine's Day] [100th Day of School]

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Authors of the Month:

Vera B. Williams A Chair for My Mother Something Special for Me Music Music A Chair for Always Video Interview with Vera B. Williams about her newest "Rosa" book

Poetry

• Mixed Beasts by Kenyon Cox 811/COX
  Create your own mixed beat with Switcheroo Zoo
• Use the Interactive Poetry website to create poems

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Books for Black History Month

• Biographies of African Americans:
  • Mary McLeod Bethune: A Great Teacher by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
  • Madam C.J.Walker: Self-Made Millionaire by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
  • Booker T. Washington by Margo McLoone
  • George Washington Carver by Margo McLoone
  • Alvin Ailey by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
  • The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles; illustrated by George Ford
  • Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrations by Eric Velasquez
  • When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan; pictures by Brian Selznick
  • If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong by Roxane Orgill; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins
  • Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
  • The Piano Man by Debbi Chocolate; illustrations by Eric Velasquez
  • I Have a Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Illustrated edition) Foreword by Coretta Scott King -- B/ KING
  • My Dream of Martin Luther King by Faith Ringgold -- B KING
• Historical events and the Civil Rights Movement
  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott by R. Conrad Stein --323 STE
• Follow the Drinking Gourd Story and pictures by Jeannette Winter -- E WIN
• The Underground Railroad by Raymond Bial -- 973.7 BIA
• Meet Rosa Parks by Melody Mis -- B PARKS
• Rosa by Nikki Giovanni -- B PARKS
• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- B PARKS
• Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation by Andrea Pinkney -- E PIN
• Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Pinkney -- 920 PIN
• Great African Americans in Civil Rights by Pat Rediger -- 920 RED
• Meet Jesse Jackson by Melody S. Mis -- B/ JACKSON
• Meet Coretta Scott King by Melody Mis -- B/ KING CORETTA
• We Were There, Too!: Young people in U.S. History by Phillip Hoose -- 973/ HOO
• Leon's Story by Leon Tillage -- B/ TILLAGE
• Ida B. Wells by Dennis B. Fradin -- B/ WELLS
• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges -- B/ BRIDGES
• Freedom River by Doreen Rappaport; pictures by Bryan Collier (973.7 RAP) Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.

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• Fiction

  • Dinner at Aunt Connie's House by Faith Ringgold (E RIN)
  • Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Hudson Talbott (E WOO)
  • The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington; pictures by Shelley Jackson (E HAR)
  • Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack and Jerry Pinkney (E MCK)

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  Books for Presidents Day

  • The Presidency by by Patricia Ryon Quiri (351 QUI)
  • The Buck Stops Here by Alice Provensen (973.02 PRO)
  • Honest Abe words by Edith Kunhardt ; Paintings by Malcah Zeldis (B LINCOLN)
  • Lincoln: a Photobiography by Russell Freedman (B LINCOLN)
  • A Picture Book of George Washington by David A. Adler (B WASHINGTON)
  • The George Washington You Never Knew by James Lincoln Collier; illustrations by Greg Copeland (B WASHINGTON)

  Books for Chinese New Year

  • Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith ; photographs by Lawrence Migdale (394.261 HOY)
  • Chinese New Year by Sarah Moyse (394.261 MOY)
  • Lion Dancer; Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year by Kate Waters (394.261 WAT)
  • Chinese New Year by Lola M. Schaefer (394.261 SCH)
  • D is for Dragon Dance by Ying Chang Compestine; illustrated by Yongsheng Xuan ((394.261 COM)

  [top]Books for Valentine's Day

  • Valentine's Day by Gail Gibbons (394.2 GIB)
  • The Story of Valentine's Day by Clyde Robert Bulla; illustrated by Susan Estelle Kwas (394.2618 BUL)
  • Arthur's Valentine by Marc Tolon Brown (E BRO)
  • Arthur's Great Big Valentine by Lillian Hoban (ER HOB)
  • The Valentine Bears by Eve Bunting; pictures by Jan Brett (E BUN)

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  Books for the 100th Day of School

  • The 100th Day of School by Angela Shelf Medearis; illustrated by Joan Holub (ER MED)
  • Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten by Joseph Slate; illustrated by Ashley Wolff (E SLA)
  • Jan Brett: Happy 100th Day of School Coloring Page

  
  

My Hero Project:
Celebrates Peace, Love and tolerance with art from around the globe

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Discover Stories at Story Bee

Enjoy Seussville

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Ability Awareness Books

• Be Good to Eddie Lee by Virginia Fleming (E/FLE): the story of a boy with Down's Syndrome
• Seal Surfer by Michael Foreman (E/FOR): a boy on crutches
• How Smudge Came Story by Nan Gregory (E/GRE)
• Through Granpa's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan (E/MAC): story of a boy who learns about the world from his blind grandfather
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (FIC/LORD): story of a sister whose autistic brother prevents her from having a normal life but leads to an unusual frienship with a paraplegic boy.
• The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (FIC/DOWD): a boy who thinks differently solves a mystery

Fun Activities

• Building Bridges Earthquake Simulator http://eduweb.com/portfolio/bridgetoclassroom/engineeringfull.html

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