Chalk

TITLE: Chalk

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Bill Thomson

PUBLISHER: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books PUBLICATION DATE:  March 1st 2010
AWARDS: Connecticut Book Award
GENRE: Children's picture book (wordless) READING LEVEL: 1st
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Three kids in the park on a rainy day decide to draw pictures with chalk that magically come to life.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will write an alternate ending.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Rebekah Swilley, Valdosta State University ECSE)
LABELS: Wordless, Fiction, Dinosaurs

When Dinosaurs Came with Everything

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Author: Elise Broach          Illustrator: David Small

PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers PUBLICATION DATE: 2007

GENRE:   Fiction Picture Book                     READING LEVEL: Ages 5-8

BRIEF OVERVIEW: A boy and his mom go to the bakery and get a dinosaur for the dozen they bought. After going a few places and getting a dinosaur with every purchase they realized a dinosaur came with everything

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: The kids can draw dinosaurs afterwards and learn details about the specific dinosaurs mentioned

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Brooke Larsen, VSU student

Time Flies

TITLE: Time Flies
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR:Eric Rohmann
PUBLISHER:Random House Children's Books
AWARDS: Nominated for Caldecott
PUBLICATION DATE: 1994
GENRE:Fiction
READING LEVEL:Pre-K-2nd grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW:Time Flies is a wordless picture book that reflects the relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Have the students go through the book and write a story to go along with the pictures.
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Kacy Flesher; VSU
LABELS: Wordless picture book, Dinosaurs, Extinct Animals

Chalk

TITLE: Chalk

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Bill Thomson

PUBLISHER: Two Lions 

PUBLICATION DATE: March 2010

GENRE: Wordless Picture Book        READING LEVEL:   2nd Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW:    Three children discover a magical bag of chalk on a rainy day. When they draw things on the sidewalk, they come to life. 

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Have the students draw pictures of things they wish would come to life if they had magical chalk. 

REVIEWER'S NAME & AFFILIATION: Megan Powell, Valdosta State University

LABELS: Imagination, Chalk, Dinosaurs, 

Stegosaurus and Other Plate-Backed Plant-Eaters

TITLE: Stegosaurus and Other Plate-Backed Plant-Eaters

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Virginia Schomp

PUBLISHER: Benchmark Books (NY)    PUBLICATION DATE: 2003

GENRE: Nonfiction         READING LEVEL: Fourth Grade and up

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This is an informational book about the different types of stegosaurs, including their locations, eating habits, and predators.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will be given two different plastic dinosaurs and they must use what they already know about the two in order to compare and contrast them in a paragraph.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Kirsti Slaughter, Valdosta State University

LABELS: dinosaurs, nonfiction, children's book