Count the Monkeys

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Mac Barnett/ Kevin Cornell

PUBLISHER:  Disney Hyperion              PUBLICATION DATE: 06/25/2013

GENRE: Fiction PB or Concept Book                     READING LEVEL:  (Pre-k)

BRIEF OVERVIEW: The monkeys have been scared off by a chain of people and animals that the readers can count across the country.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students with help of teachers, will research monkeys and share what they found with a think out loud discussion.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Jasmine Rozier, Valdosta State University ECSE)

A Ball For Daisy by Chris Raschka

A Ball For Daisy author and illustrator: Chris Raschka
Copyright: 2011 Reading Level: Ages 3-7 
Book Description: Daisy is a playful puppy who loves her ball. She and her owner make a trip to the park to play where she finds another dog to play with her and her ball. The ball pops and Daisy is sad. The good news is that the other dog brought a new ball for them to play with and Daisy gets to take it home.

Integrated Ideas: Students will revise the book and the story line and then explain the main idea and plot to the teacher through sign. The students will gather their reasoning for the feelings of the book’s character, Daisy the dog, based off of their visual interpretations from the author’s illustrations. After the students describe the story, they will then play an outside game with a red balloon. If the students pop the red balloon, then another student must be willing to share their blue balloon with the class. 

Reviewer's name and affiliation: Bethany A. Loggins, Valdosta State University

New Socks

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Bob Shea

PUBLISHER: Little Brown Books for Young Readers

PUBLICATION DATE: April 1, 2007

GENRE: Concept Book READING LEVEL: Preschool - 1st Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This book is about a little chicken getting a pair of new orange socks and they take us on an adventure reading about the things that the chicken introduces his socks to.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will complete a story map about the book where they will write the title of the book, draw a picture about the book, and write one sentence about the book.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Charvondra Watson, Valdosta State University

LABELS: Concept, Animals, Chicken

The Money Book

TITLE:  The Money Book

AUTHOR: Jennifer Osborne

ILLUSTRATOR: R.W. Alley

PUBLISHER: Newbridge Educational Pub     PUBLICATION DATE: 1999

GENRE: Concept Picture Book           READING LEVEL: Age 5+

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Gives children the foundation for understanding and counting money. Also includes a smaller work book.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: I will introduce the concept of counting money using this book. Learning the value of the dime and quarter and laying the foundation.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Azimah Caines 

Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do

AUTHOR: Stuart J. Murphy

ILLUSTRATOR: Kevin O’Malley

PUBLISHER: Harper Collins          PUBLICATION DATE: 1996

GENRE: Concept                            READING LEVEL:  Grades 1-2

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This book is about a kangaroo who is asking his friends to play with him, but each time he asks, they give him a list of things that they have to do. He uses the list that they give him and does multiplication with it. For example:

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Have the students role play the different scenarios in the book in groups. Have each student do a multiplication problem when they get to that part of the story.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Tori Meyers, Valdosta State University