A Book or Two: Children's Literature Reviews

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10/21/14

Tony's Bread

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Tommie dePaola

PUBLISHER: Puffin PUBLICATION DATE: 1996

GENRE: Foreign Fiction READING LEVEL: 2nd Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This book is about an Italian baker, Tony, who dreams to be famous and his daughter who wishes to get married.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: The students could make a simple version of homemade bread and practice their measuring skills.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Lindsey Taylor,Valdosta State University ECSE)

LABELS: Foreign, cooking, Italy

10/17/14

Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Cooking

AUTHOR: Frances O’Roark Dowell

ILLUSTRATOR: Preston McDaniels

PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

PUBLICATION DATE: 2014

GENRE: Transitional

READING LEVEL: Ages 8-12

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Phineas enters a bake-off that the school bully is also participating in. Phineas must teach himself to cook and has help from his friends.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Assign a one page journal entry for students to write about their favorite meal served at home.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Courtney Taylor, Valdosta State University ECSE

11/21/13

Let's Make Pizza

TITLE: Let's Make Pizza

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Mary Hill/ Maura B. McConell

PUBLISHER:Children's Press

PUBLICATION DATE: 2002

GENRE: Nonfiction

READING LEVEL: 1st grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This book follows all of the steps that you would take to make a pizza.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will compose a procedural writing piece on how to make a pizza using complete sentences and
temporal words. REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Nicole Waller-VSU

Henry's Awful Mistake

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Robert Quakenbush

PUBLISHER: Gareth Stevens Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 1980

AWARDS: American Flag Institute Award for outstanding contributions to children's literature - 3 times winner, Edgar Allan Poe Special Award for best juvenile mystery, Gradiva Award for Batbaby, voted best children's book of 1998 by NAAP

GENRE: Fiction Picture Book READING LEVEL: 2nd grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Henry is making dinner for Clara. A little ant appears and turns his whole kitchen upside down.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Make a flip chart of some things that belong in a kitchen.

Discuss other ways Henry could have done to get the ant out of the kitchen.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Lauren Imamura, Valdosta State University

A Cake for Herbie

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Petra Mathers

PUBLISHER:Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

PUBLICATION DATE: 2000

GENRE: Poetry READING LEVEL: 3^rd grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Herbie the duck entered a poem contest about food that his friend, Lottie, wrote for him. Since Lottie did not make it to the contest, he got nervous and left. He ended up cooking in a restraunt and they loved his rhymes.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students would have to create a recipe that had rhyming ingredients. For example, ham and jam.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Haley Thornhill-VSU

Cora Cooks Pancit

AUTHOR: Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore ILLUSTRATOR: Kristi Valiant

PUBLISHER: Shen’s Books PUBLICATION DATE: 2009

AWARDS: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards

GENRE: Fiction: Other Culture READING LEVEL: 3^rd grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: A Filipino girl learns to cook a family dish that her granddad always made. She and her mom cooked it without the help of her siblings.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students would bring in recipes that were important to their family. I would make something that was important to my family and bring it in.