This meme was started by Sheila at Book Journey and the kids' version borrowed from the wonderful ladies at Teach Mentor Texts.
I took a break from kids lit for most of last week. While I was taking my break, I read some wonderful grown-up books. I wrote about them in my previous blog post. It felt so good to take a break, I guess we all need a change of pace every few weeks.
I did ease back into some kit lit this week with two books. The first was Outside Your Window A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld. Wow, all I can say is wow!! I loved this book!! The poems were fun and really brought the feeling of each season alive. I think my favorite poem Acorn, which was found on page 68. Mark Hearld's illustrations made a great poetry book even better. I found myself eager to turn each page for the the next poem and illustration! If you haven't seen a copy of this book, I highly suggest you go to your library and check it out!
The other book that I read was Titanic Sinks! by Barry Denenberg. I enjoyed this book because I'm fasinated by anything dealing with the Titanic. The book did keep me interested from cover to cover. But the thing that I really was not sure about was it "unique presentation of fact and fiction". As I was reading the book, I really couldn't tell what was the fiction part. It was not until I was reading the authors note at the back where I found out what was the fiction part. I think that it will be hard for any students to separate out what is fact and what is fiction.
Happy Reading!!
Stacey (@libraryjo92)
I did ease back into some kit lit this week with two books. The first was Outside Your Window A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld. Wow, all I can say is wow!! I loved this book!! The poems were fun and really brought the feeling of each season alive. I think my favorite poem Acorn, which was found on page 68. Mark Hearld's illustrations made a great poetry book even better. I found myself eager to turn each page for the the next poem and illustration! If you haven't seen a copy of this book, I highly suggest you go to your library and check it out!
The other book that I read was Titanic Sinks! by Barry Denenberg. I enjoyed this book because I'm fasinated by anything dealing with the Titanic. The book did keep me interested from cover to cover. But the thing that I really was not sure about was it "unique presentation of fact and fiction". As I was reading the book, I really couldn't tell what was the fiction part. It was not until I was reading the authors note at the back where I found out what was the fiction part. I think that it will be hard for any students to separate out what is fact and what is fiction.
Happy Reading!!
Stacey (@libraryjo92)
It's good to have a break from kidlit every once in a while. I need to remind myself of that too! I read Titanic Sinks! a while ago. I don't remember it real well (I read a lot of Titanic books all around the same time. I'm another one fascinated by the tragedy) but I seem to remember enjoying it. Good pictures, I think.
ReplyDeleteI try to read at least one adult book a month and a teacher book, too. There are times I overload on kidlit, too...or at least on a specific kidlit genre and need to change it up. I really enjoyed Outside Your Window, too. The illustrations were wonderful, too.
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