Just One More

 

TITLE: Just One More

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Jennifer Hansen Rolli

PUBLISHER: Viking Juvenile    PUBLICATION DATE: 2014

GENRE: Fiction Picture Book   READING LEVEL: Kindergarten

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Ruby always wants just one more of everything. Of course if you keep giving her one more sip, one more ride, or one more scoop, she is just going to keep wanting…MORE! When Ruby drops her ice cream because she had one too many scoops, she decides she’ll be just as happy with just one of everything.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will make a list of 5 things they are grateful for and number each one. Students will then draw and color a picture of the things they have listed.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Sarah MeLinne Moon, Valdosta State University ECSE

LABELS: Fiction, Picturebook, fun

Extra Yarn

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Mac Barnett/ Jon Klassen 

PUBLISHER: Balzer + Bray        PUBLICATION DATE: 2012  

AWARDS: Caldecott Honor Book and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner 

GENRE: Fiction              READING LEVEL: Age 7

BRIEF OVERVIEW: One day, Annabelle finds a box full of yarn. She uses her yarn to bring color to the gray in her life. 

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will be given balls of yarn and a poster image of a gray city. They will use the yarn to decorate their image. Then, they will discuss in groups why the yarn gives the image liveliness. 

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Quiana Nicole Childs, Valdosta State University ECSE)

LABELS: creative, Fiction, Picturebook, Individuality 

Mommy, Do You Love Me

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TITLE:  Mommy, Do You Love Me?

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Jeanne Willis/Jan Fearnley

PUBLISHER: Candlewick              PUBLICATION DATE: 2008

GENRE: Picture Book                     READING LEVEL:  1^st grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Little Chick continuously asks his mother if she loves him after making silly faces, playing in the mud, and even after destroying a rose she gave him. His mother yells at him for being loud too loud and he thinks that she doesn’t love him anymore.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: The children come up with a list of things they love about their parents. The children make I Love You cards to their parents based on the reason they came up with.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Kia Hill, Valdosta State University ECSE)

Ten Little Ladybugs

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Melanie Gerth/ Laura Hiliska-Beith
PUBLISHER:  Piggy Toes Press       PUBLICATION DATE:  2001
GENRE:  Fiction Picture Book     READING LEVEL:  Kindergarten
BRIEF OVERVIEW:  Children learn to count backwards from ten in this rhyming book about ladybugs.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY:  Establish a pattern of subtraction, by having students line up while facing the class, dropping out one by one as you read.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Kimberly Hansen, Valdosta State University ECSE)
LABELS: (board book, math, Picture book, Counting ).

Night Noises

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Mem Fox/ Terry Denton

PUBLISHER: Penguin Australia              PUBLICATION DATE: 1992

GENRE:  Realistic Fiction PB                     READING LEVEL: 2nd grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Pensive vote for forever youth as Lily receives a host of guests she didn't expect.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Have children use addition to combine all the guests that came about to retrieve a sum.

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

My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me

AUTHOR: Maya Angelou                          
ILLUSTRATOR: Margaret Courtney-Clarke PUBLISHER: Crown Books for Young Readers            PUBLICATION DATE: 1994                                 
 GENRE: Non-Fiction                                            
READING LEVEL: Age 4-7                                      
BRIEF OVERVIEW: The story of a girl as she describes what life is like in her country, with her best friend and beautifully painted house.                                
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY:Students will paint their own house with vibrant colors.                                                                                                   REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Jennifer Davis, Valdosta State University ECSE)LABELS: Non-Fiction, Humor, Picture Book