A Book or Two: Children's Literature Reviews

Find a perfect children’s book to share or read, and information on new, classic, and favorite children's literature, reviewed by university professors, teachers, librarians, graduate students, and teachers-to-be! Browse A Book or Two by title, genre, or topic! HAPPY READING! This is a closed site, to prevent inappropriate postings. You won't be able to add your own comments. Communication should be sent to the site organizer, Dr. Deb Marciano (dlmarciano@valdosta.edu).

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10/20/14

Countdown to Kindergarten

AUTHOR: Alison McGhee

ILLUSTRATOR: Harry Bliss

PUBLISHER: HMH Books for Young Readers PUBLICATION DATE: 2006

GENRE: Comedy/Humor Fiction READING LEVEL: PreK

BRIEF OVERVIEW: A little girl is worried for 1^st day of Kindergarten. She counts backwards from 10 throughout the story. She finds out Kindergarten is great.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Allow students to colorfully draw out numbers one through ten on a piece of paper, in a group. Then, have children to count number one through ten aloud both forwards and backwards within the groups.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Brittany Welch, Valdosta State University ECSE)

LABELS: Comedy, Humorous, Fiction, Children's Literature, Children's Book, PreK-1

12/4/13

Growing Frogs

Author/ Illustrator: Vivian French/ Alison Bartlett

PUBLISHER: Candlewick PUBLICATION DATE: 2003

Genre: Informational/Non-Fiction 5-8

Reading Level: 1st- 3rd Grade
Brief Overview: A girl watches frogs grow up and the book tells you how you can watch frogs grow to. Throughout the book there are fun facts about frogs!
Integrated Activity: The teacher will read Growing Frogs to the students. The class will talk about how to write a narrative story and the teacher will give examples. The students will write their own narrative story.
Reviewer's Name & Affiliation: Kaleigh Harty, VSU

11/22/13

MRS.WATSON WANTS YOUR TEETH

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: ALISON MCGHEE

PUBLISHER: HARCOURT PUBLICATION DATE: 2004

GENRE: FICTION READING LEVEL: PRE-K-1

BRIEF OVERVIEW:THIS IS THE STORY OF A FIRST GRADE GIRL WHO'S FRIGHTENED ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AFTER HEARING A RUMOR THAT HER TEACHER IS A 300-YEAR-OLD ALIEN WITH A PURPLE TONGUE WHO STEALS BABY TEETH.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: MATH 1ST GRADE-HAVE THE STUDENTS LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND COUNT THEIR TEETH.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: MYRA CERECERO- VSU