Classroom Picks
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This Month’s Picks
written and illustrated in full color by Gail Gibbons
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Grades PreK-3
This award-winning author has created a new book about dinosaurs for the youngest readers.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years. Today paleontologists piece together fossilized dinosaur skeletons and study ancient dinosaur footprints to learn more about how these amazing creative lived. Perfect for very young paleontologists, Gibbons’s simple yet informative text and vividly detailed illustrations depict the most up-to-date information available about these magnificent creatures.
Check out the new Gail Gibbons educator's guide
“The combination of clear writing and lively artwork makes this an accessible choice for young dinosaur enthusiasts.”—Booklist
“This very basic overview comes with a few dozen dino-names (with pronunciation guides) to practice, and leads naturally into the author’s more detailed Dinosaur Discoveries.”—Kirkus Reviews
written and illustrated in full color by Gail Gibbons
Non-Fiction Picture Book
Grades PreK-3
Since The Planets was first published in 1993 and revised in 2005, space exploration has resulted in additional new discoveries that are included in this edition, along with the fact that Pluto was designated a dwarf planet in 2006.
Check out the new Gail Gibbons educator's guide
“Many libraries will find this a useful purchase.”—Booklist
“It remains an essential primer on the topic.”—School Library Journal
by Mary Amato
illustrated by Eric Brace
Chapter Book
Grades 2-5
When a teacher leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner for her students to find, with the instructions "Please Write in this Book," she hopes it will encourage her students to talk to one another in its pages. They do, and the result is an epic classroom battle.
“Along with warming the cockles of any educator’s heart, this record of successful class dynamics will draw reluctant readers with its funny dialogue.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Amato never strays from the journal format, getting maximum story for modest helpings of text and thus making this perfect for novice readers. Braces’s comic sketches, sprinkled throughout the pages as if doodled by the students, successfully match the persona of each writer and contribute greatly to the realistic journal feel of the volume. This would adapt well to a reader’s theater piece, and it will certainly offer boundless entertainment to the many solo readers who are lucky enough to find it.”—The Bulletin
IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
2009 NEW JERSEY Garden State Children’s Book Award Nominee
Previous Picks
July 2008
