Nutcracker

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Emma Helbrough/Anna Luraschi
PUBLISHER: Usborne Publishing Ltd. PUBLICATION DATE:2004
GENRE: Traditional Euro Fiction READING LEVEL: Ages 5-8
BRIEF OVERVIEW:It is about a girl who goes on an adventure with a nutcracker prince.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will be given construction paper and markers. They will make an illustration of an adventure they have been on. When they all finish students will swap illustrations and another student will try to put the illustration they got into words.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Elizabeth Pearce, Valdosta State University ECSE)
LABELS: Fiction, Fairy tale, adventure

Little Indian

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Peggy Parish/John E. Johnson
PUBLISHER: Simon&Schuster, Inc. PUBLICATION DATE: 1968
GENRE:Other Culture Fiction READING LEVEL: Ages 5-8
BRIEF OVERVIEW: About a little indian who goes through different things to find and earn his name.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will think about what they would want their name to be if they had to find or earn one and then they will write a story explaining how they would find or earn their chosen name.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Elizabeth Pearce, Valdosta State University ECSE)
LABELS: Culture, Fiction, Adventure

One Fine Day

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Nonny Hogrogian
PUBLISHER: Alladin Paperbacks  
PUBLICATION DATE:  1971
AWARDS:  Caldecott 1972
GENRE: Western Fiction/Picture Book    
 READING LEVEL: Ages 5-8

BRIEF OVERVIEW: After having his tail chopped off, a fox goes on a lengthy adventure to bring different items to different people so that he can get his tail get sewn back on

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Using the blue breads from the story, students can draw a blue bead for each time the fox went to someone for help. Then they can add all the blue beads together to see how many people the fox went to.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Katie Holliday, Valdosta State University ECSE

LABELS: Adventure, Fiction, Self-Esteem

Where The Wild Things Are

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Maurice Sendak

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins        PUBLICATION DATE: 1964 
AWARDS: Caldecott Medal 1964 

GENRE: Classic Picture Book     READING LEVEL: Kindergarten 

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Max dresses up and acts wild, therefore he gets sent to his room without any dinner. Max's imagination starts to take over. He sails to another land where the wild things are. He becomes their king. They have so much fun but Max becomes lonely and wants to be with someone he loves. Max travels back home. When he makes it home, his dinner is waiting for him in his room...and it's still hot.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will draw their favorite character in the book. Students will write their favorite line of the book below their favorite character. Students will stand up and share their work.

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

LABELS: bedtime, adventure, fantasy

Sleep Like a Tiger

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Mary Logue, Pamela Zagarenski

PUBLISHER: HMH Books for Young Readers   

PUBLICATION DATE: 2012

AWARDS: 2013 Randolph Caldecott Honor Award

GENRE: Fiction Picture Book   READING LEVEL: 3^rd

BRIEF OVERVIEW: The little girl does not want to go to sleep. She told her parents she was not sleepy. Her parents told her that she could stay awake as long as she got ready for bed. She climbed into bed and asked her parents if everything went to sleep…whales, snails, and bears? Her parents explained to her that they did. Then the little girl told them that the tiger sleeps to stay strong. After that, she slept all through the night just like the animals she had asked about.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will be placed in groups. Each student will reach their own conclusions then share with the rest of the group. Students will identify which continent or ocean each animal in the book lives in. Students will draw a picture of the continent or ocean that the animals live in then draw the animals accordingly.

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

LABELS: Fiction, Animals, adventure

The Travels of Babar

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Jean De Brunhoff:  translated from the French by Merle s. Haas

PUBLISHER:  Random House, Inc.                   PUBLICATION DATE:  1934 

GENRE:  Classic Fiction        READING LEVEL:  Third Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW:  Babar, an elephant king, has just married Celeste.  The two elephants have exciting adventures on their wedding trip, as they travel around the world.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY:  Have students decorate their own hot air balloon.  Students will write a paragraph on their balloon of where they would travel in their hot air balloon.  The teacher can display balloons on the wall  with the students’ pictures in the basket.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION:  (Kimberly Hansen,  Valdosta State University ECSE)

LABELS: ( classic fiction, writing, adventure, art )