One Smiling Grandma

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR:  Ann Marie Linden/ Lynne Russell

PUBLISHER:Puffin        PUBLICATION DATE:  1992

GENRE: Foreign       READING LEVEL:  Grade 1-2

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This book goes through counting all the way to ten by using different objects that could be found on a carribean island.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY:Have students write there own story about counting to ten using ten different objects that were not talked about in the book.

 REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Anna Claire Heath, Valdosta State University ECSE

LABELS:  Creative, Foreign, Picturebook, Academic

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

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

TITLE:  The Legend of the Bluebonnet

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Tomie DePaola

PUBLISHER: Penguin Group USA           PUBLICATION DATE: March 1983

GENRE: Folktale               READING LEVEL: Grade 3

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This tale is about how the blue flowers in Texas came to be. It started with a drought in a village. They found out they had to sacrifice something for rain, so a girl gave up her most prized item, a doll with blue feathers. After is burned, the hill was filled with blue flowers and the rain came.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: For this book, students will pick out the components of the story (i.e. Main idea, details, setting). They will record this on a reading web worksheet.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Schuyler Kenzel, Valdosta State University ECED)

LABELS: (Folktale, foreign, children, bravery)

Joha Makes a Wish

TITLE: Joha Makes a Wish

AUTHOR: Adapted by Eric A. Kimmel

ILLUSTRATOR: Omar Rayyan

PUBLISHER: Amazon Children’s Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 2010

GENRE: Fiction READING LEVEL: 2nd Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Joha discovers a magic “wishing” stick, but soon realizes none of his wishes are coming true, in fact, the opposite happens. He causes many bad things to happen with his wishes, but soon finds out that he had been holding the stick upside down the whole time and has to undo all the bad things he has done

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will write down three wishes they want to be granted and why they want those wishes to come true

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Brandi Tompkins, Valdosta State University ECSE)

LABELS: foreign, Oral Tradition, Traditional Non-European

The Monkey's Whiskers

TITLE:  The Monkey’s Whiskers

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Anne Rockwell

PUBLISHER: Parents’ Magazine Press              PUBLICATION DATE:  1971

GENRE: Folktale                READING LEVEL: Grade 4

BRIEF OVERVIEW: A mischievous monkey demands a barber to shave his whiskers off. He soon wants them back and causes a stir up in the town.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: I will give students new spelling words and power words, and they will be from this book. I will read this to them, and they will write it on their sheet when they hear it. I will check their spelling afterward.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Schuyler Kenzel, Valdosta State University ECED)

LABELS: (Folktale, Foreign, Children)

One Green Apple

TITLE:  One Green Apple

AUTHOR: Eve Bunting

ILLUSTRATOR: Ted Lewin
PUBLISHER: Clarion Books             PUBLICATION DATE:  June 2006

GENRE: Foreign Fiction                    READING LEVEL: 3^rd Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This book is about a foreign girl who came to live in a new country not knowing the language, and that made her feel alone. On a class field trip, she realized there were things in her new town that were similar to her previous home.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: The teacher will draw 2 student’s names out of a bowl to become partners for this activity. The students will pair up and find out about each others’ home town/country. Each student will write a paragraph about their partner and read it to the class.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Schuyler Kenzel,Valdosta State University ECED)

LABELS: (foreign, fiction, school relationships, self-esteem)

Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Agnes Rosenstiehl  

PUBLISHER: Toon Books               
PUBLICATION DATE: April 1, 2008

GENRE: European Traditional Books            
READING LEVEL:  5-8 years 

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Lilly starts off by asking her teddy bears what he likes to do. As the four seasons pass, they take on various adventures. In the spring she goes to the park; in the summer she goes to the beach; in the fall she picks apples; and in the winter she plays in the snow.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Have a lesson with the students on the four seasons of the year and have the class act out the different things we can do (action verbs) during each sentence (We swim in the summer. and We snowboard in the winter.) Students can then create a pamphlet on the four seasons using illustrations of them doing seasonal activities.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Tachovia Kendrick Valdosta State University Teacher Candidate 

I Lost My Tooth In Africa

TITLE: I Lost My Tooth In Africa

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Penda Diakite/Baba Wague Diakite

PUBLISHER:  Scholastic Press  PUBLICATION DATE: 2006

GENRE: Foreign 1

READING LEVEL: 8 years old 

BRIEF OVERVIEW:Aminia and her family are visiting more family in Mali, West Africa. She lost her tooth and the tooth fairy brought her 2 chicken. The chickens lay eggs, but will they hatch before she leaves to go back to America?

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: The students will create teeth out of construction paper and leave them on their desk overnight. They will then return and have to write a sentence about the book. Once they turn it in, they will get a surprise from the “tooth fairy”.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Emily Raymond LITR 3110 section A