A Book or Two: Children's Literature Reviews

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10/23/14

I'm Your Bus

TITLE: I’m Your Bus

AUTHOR:Marilyn Singer ILLUSTRATOR: Evan Polenghi

PUBLISHER: Scholastics, Inc. PUBLICATION DATE: 2009

GENRE: Fiction PB READING LEVEL: age 6

BRIEF OVERVIEW: Describes the daylong job a bus has and how accountable a bus can be to a child to get them to school. No matter if it is morning or evening the children can count on the bus to keep them safe as well as their belongings. As the story is read aloud the students will clearly hear the rhyming text.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: This book will be great to introduce a lesson on transportation (most of the children ride the bus so they can relate to the book). Students will share their ways of transportation and other possible forms of transportation. They will categorize the forms of transportation by land, air, or water.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Nancy Guerrero, Valdosta State University ECSE)

LABELS: Fiction, school, transportation, rhyming

10/11/14

I Wish I Were a Pilot

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Stella Blackston/Max Grover

PUBLISHER:Barefoot Books PUBLICATION DATE:March 1, 2008

GENRE: Fiction Picture Book READING LEVEL: First Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: The story tells of someone who wishes they were a pilot, balloonist, driver, etc and traveling everywhere.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will match different modes of transportation with the correct locations of geography and glue them on a sheet of paper.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Kasey Casey, Valdosta State University ECSE

LABELS: transportation, fiction, geography

11/22/13

Subway

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Christoph Niemann

PUBLISHER: Greenwillow Books PUBLICATION DATE: 2010

GENRE: Fiction Picture READING LEVEL: PreK-1st Grade

BRIEF OVERVIEW: It’s a cold and rainy day, so a dad and his 2 kids are going to ride the subway. They go from Harlem to Brooklyn to Far Rockaway. They end the day dreaming of subways in their beds.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: (CCGPS.K.MD.2): Students will work on a worksheet that is comparing subway train track lengths. They will need to determine which is longer or shorter than the other.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Shelby Varchmin, VSU Student