Author : Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 054756225X
The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.
Author : Jacqueline Martin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0897899547
Playing on the phrase, The author and you, a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said, this new series will assist teachers and teacher librarians in understanding the underlying purposes of an author as they prepare learning activities for students. The series focuses primarily on books for the elementary age child (K–6) and features insights into the author's background, purposes, and goals in writing his or her books. By furnishing an overview of an author's works, the books in the series give teachers the big picture. This book, like the others in the series, features personal information about the author, including insights into why she writes the type of books she writes, There is also information about each of the author's books featured. Part II of the book is the author's writing workshop—writing about writing. This book features Jacqueline Briggs Martin, award winning picture book author. It discusses her life and work and the researching, writing, and illustrating of each of her books, providing insight into the writing process and promoting reading as a source of good writing.
Author : Association for Library Service to Children
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838991955
Winners of the most respected prizes in children’s literature speak out in an exclusive collection of acceptance speeches.
Author : Beth Bartleson Zarian
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780810848160
Whether two teachers are covering the same topic in separate classes, or designing a thematic unit with the school librarian, this handy guide to nearly 800 award-winning historical fiction for Kindergarten through 8th grade will assist all parties in the selection of high quality literature.
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Multicultural education
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Children's libraries
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Author : Susan Marie Swanson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547528302
A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers—a key, a bed, the moon—this timeless book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe.
Author : Catherine Barr
Publisher :
Page : 1808 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Best books
ISBN : 9781591580850
Author : Tricia Brown
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0882406175
Children of the Midnight Sun was chosen as one of Parenting Magazine's 1998 Books of the Year and School Library Journal's Best Books of 1998. For Native children, growing up in Alaska today means dwelling in a place where traditional practices sometimes mix oddly with modern conveniences. Children of the Midnight Sun explores the lives of eight Alaskan Native children, each representing a unique and ancient culture. This extraordinary book also looks at the critical role elders play in teaching the young Native traditions. Photographs and text present the experiences and way of life of Tlingit, Athabascan, Yup'ik, and other Native American children in the villages, cities, and Bush areas of Alaska.
Author : Rosanne Blass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1591588316
This resource book for librarians and teachers of elementary and middle grade readers introduces over 400 titles of books (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) written and illustrated by international authors and illustrators. Windows on the World: International Books for Elementary and Middle Grade Readers helps librarians and teachers open the eyes of elementary and middle grade readers to what life is like for children like themselves around the globe. In this extraordinary resource, you will find introductions to over 400 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles for age levels 4-8 and 8-12, written and illustrated by international authors and illustrators, and matched with related curriculum activities correlated with national curriculum standards. Windows on the World consists of over 100 lead books and over 350 related books published in the last ten years, organized by countries and cultures. It includes work from non-American authors working in the United States and abroad, as well as reissues of classics, and a few American titles noted for their authentic representations of other cultures. Each entry includes bibliographic data, information about the author and illustrator, identification of genre, recommended age level, a synopsis, suggested curriculum responses correlated with national curriculum standards, and related books.
