Read-Aloud Roundup
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Jaqueline Woodson has been
publishing conversation-starting
books since 1990. In 2014, her
memoir Brown Girl Dreaming
catapulted her to major literary
stardom. In 2015, she was
named the Young People’s Poet
Laureate and, in 2018, she
continues to be a newsmaker.
In January, Woodson was
named the sixth National
Ambassador for Young People’s
Literature. As ambassador,
she’s been traveling around the
country, speaking to kids in
schools, libraries, juvenile
detention centers and other
underserved areas —especially
in the rural South. She will
continue to serve in this capacity
through 2019. In February,
Woodson won the 2018 Laura
Ingalls Wilder Award for her
substantial and lasting
contribution to literature for
children. In June, the
prestigious Wilder Award was
renamed the Childen’s
Literature Legacy Award.
The reasoning behind the name
change — racial insensitivity in
Wilder’s work — made national
news both in the library/literary
world and the world at large.
Woodson physically received her
award under the new name.
Jacqueline Woodson: Newsmaker
Review the New
Stegothesaurus
by Bridget Heos
Stegothesaurus’s love of language
has always put him at odds with his
stegosaurus brothers. So when he
makes a friend — an allothesaurus —
who is just as verbose, he is happy,
thrilled, and ecstatic!
But Stegothesaurus soon learns that
the allothesaurus has very different
ideas about what constitutes a good
meal, and he'll discover there’s one
thing that he loves more than words:
his family.
The author is offering free Skype
visits during SKYPE-TOBER!
Drew Daywalt Does It Again!
The Final Lap
Kate DiCamillo Writes
a Sequel
Lafayette!: A Revolutionary
War Tale
Max Einstein
Narrative Writing
Ogre Enchanted
This Is Your Brain on Comics
Your de la Peña – Robinson
Collaboration Wish Is
Granted
Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead
It’s been five years since Livy has visited her
grandmother in Australia. Now that she’s
back, Livy has the feeling she’s forgotten
something really, really important about Gran’s
house. It turns out she’s right.
A House That Once Was
by Julie Fogliano A boy and a girl who explore an abandoned
house and imagine who might have lived there.
In August, Woodson published
a new picture book and a new
middle grade novel. The Day
You Begin, illustrated by two-
time Pura Belpré Illustrator
Award winner Rafael López,
reminds us that we all feel like
outsiders sometimes and how
brave it is that we go forth
anyway. And that sometimes,
when we reach out and begin to
share our stories, others will be
happy to meet us halfway.
Harbor Me celebrates the
healing that can occur when
a group of students share their
stories. It all starts when six
kids have to meet for a weekly
chat — by themselves, with no
adults to listen in. There they
discover it's safe to talk about
what's bothering them —
everything from Esteban's
father's deportation and Haley's
father's incarceration to Amari's
fears of racial profiling and
Ashton's adjustment to his
changing family fortunes.
In September, Woodson was
one of fifty of the foremost
diverse children’s authors and
illustrators to share her answer
to the question, “In this divisive
world, what shall we tell our
children?” The resulting book is
called We Rise, We Resist, We
Raise Our Voices.
Untangle the Web askabiologist.asu.edu/
Explore the fascinating world of
biology through puzzles, quizzes,
and games! There are archived
podcasts on a variety of biology
topics plus a real biologist will also
answer YOUR biology
questions. To help educators in
their quest for fun and engaging
content, they created a Teacher’s
Toolbox.
APProved
Signed
Stories
Children’s
stories performed in
American Sign Language!
New books every month
plus two interactive
language games with every
book. Includes useful tips
for parents and teachers.
FREE / iPhone & iPad
Volume 6, Issue 3
October 2018
Read This, Not That
BONUS ROUND
More Than Common Core Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World
by Christy Hale This unique information book switches between bodies of water
and corresponding land masses with the simple turn of a page.
Readers will delight to see just how connected the earth and
the water really are.
History’s Mysteries: Curious Clues, Cold Cases, and
Puzzles from the Past by Kitson Jazynka The first book in this exciting series covers history's
heavy-hitting, head-scratching mysteries, including the Lost
Colony of Roanoke, the Bermuda Triangle, the Oak Island Money
Pit, Stonehenge, the Sphinx, the disappearance of entire
civilizations, the dancing plague, the Voynich manuscript, and
so many more. The second book, History’s Mysteries: Freaky
Phenomena, was released on September 25, 2018.
Like the timeless classic A Wrinkle in Time, these books feature
strong, smart kids on mind-blowing journeys, often in space or
other imaginative worlds.
Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens (#1)
The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler (#1)
The Glass Sentence by S. E. Grove (#1)
Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson (#1)
The Lifters by Dave Eggers
The Map to Everywhere by Carrie Ryan & John Parke Davis (#1)
Masterminds by Gordon Korman (#1)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
My Diary from the Edge of the World by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Space Case by Stuart Gibbs (#1)
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz (#1)
Time Traveling with a Hamster by Ross Welford
Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic
by Armand Baltazar
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
What’s in a
name? For one
little girl, her
very long name
tells the vibrant
story of where
she came from —
and who she may
one day be.
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