[LM_NET] Fwd: HIT: Elem, Picture Books for Various Genres

[Erica Payne <epayne75@YAHOO.COM>]

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Erica Payne
Media Specialist
Polk Elem School
Dearborn Heights, MI
epayne75@yahoo.com

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> Thanks to everyone who contributed!
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> Please use my historical fiction site
> http://bookgirl3.tripod.com/historicalfiction.html
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http://www.calvertnet.k12.md.us/schools/hes/hes_reading_patch_scifi.html
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> we are just finishing up our month of focus on the
> genre of science fiction for our yearly reading
> program. I have a list of books posted at the
> following site. They are  books available at the
> local
> public library. I'm sure your hit will be welcome.
> Perhaps my list will be a start.
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http://www.websterschools.org/classrooms/state_library/science_books.html
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> http://www.goldenduck.org/
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> http://www.sfwa.org/
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> Try this site for finding picture books by topic:
> http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/search/
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> Please make use of my historical fiction site
> http://bookgirl3.tripod.com/historicalfiction.html
> within each grouping are picture books, if I know
> about them.
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> Books for many of those genres are in our Yearlong
> Reading Program's booklists on this page:
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http://www.websterschools.org/classrooms/state_library/booklists.html
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> Go to: http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/search and
> select the alphabetical search and look up whatever
> terms you want:-)
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> While reading your posting a light suddenly went on.
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> I am at home so don't have the store stock or a
> library collection to back me up, but I'll bet that
> Patricia Polacco has written something that will fit
> in each of your genres. Now if I can only remember
> possible titles.
> Historical  "Pink and Say", "Butterfly", and "The
> Keeping Quilt", Fantasy "Rencheka's Eggs",
> "Babushka's
> Doll", Mystery ???, Drama "Chicken Sunday", "Trees
> of
> the Dancing Goats", "Renchenka's
> Eggs", "Thank You Mr. Faulkner" Adventure  the one
> about her rotten red-headed brother, the one about
> her birthday,Science Fiction, "Meteor"
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> You might also use Daniel Pinkwater books for
> fantasy,
> mystery, adventure, drama and science fiction,  they
> are much funnier but the pictures are
> not as wonderful as Polacco's.
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> Historical Fiction
> The Christmas Tapestry
> So Far from the Sea
> The Unbreakable Code
> Fa Mulan
> Pink and Say
> The Keeping Quilt
> Grandfather's Journey
> The Always Prayer Shawl
> The Making of a Knight
> Rocks in His Head
> any of the "Little House" picture books by Renee
> Graef
> Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah
> Hopkinson.
> Boxes for Katje
> The Sea Chest by Toni Buzzeo
> the Claude books by Noble and Byars
> The Golly Sisters
> Train to Somewhere
> Jean Van Leevuen has Going West
> The Batboy and his violin -- negro leagues
> Dakota Dugout (Ann Turner) -- 1800's
> When the soldiers were gone (short chapter book) --
> WWII
> The Blue and the gray (Eve Bunting)
> Going West (Van Leeuwen, Jean)
> Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan
> Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco.
> Pepe, the lamplighter
> The Potato Man
> Ox-cart Man
> Stevenson's Don't You Know there's a War on?
> Wagon wheels    Brenner, Barbara
> Milly and the Macy's parade Corey, Shana.
> Lewis & Papa: adventure on the Santa Fe Trail
> Dandelions  Bunting, Eve
> Nine for California Levitin, Sonia
> Warm as wool    Sanders, Scott R
> Nine for California by Levitin
> Casey Over There by Rabin (great for Veterans' Day)
> Mailing May by Tunnell
> The Babe and I by Adler
> Nine For California
> Pink and Say
> Sister Anne's Hands
> Goin' Someplace Special
> They Came from the Bronx
> Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War
> Sam, the Minuteman
> The Blue and the Gray
> Virgie Goes to School with us Boys
> Where the Forest Meets the Sea
> Alice Ramsey's Great Adventure
> Where the Buffalo Roam
> A Place Called Freedom
> "Togo" by Blake
> HENRY HIKES  TO FITCHBERG
> Dinner at the Liberty Diner by Kirk (FDR presidency)
> Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Houston(WWI)
> Hatmaker's Sign (Revolutionary times)
> A Bus of Their Own
> Encounter
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> Fantasy
> Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
> Flat Stanley
> George Shrinks
> Pocket Rocks
> A Bad Case of Stripes
> and many of the Dr. Seuss books!
> Bad Day at Riverbend,
> Jumanji, or anything by Chris Van Allsburg
> The Flying Dragon Room
> PIGGIE PIE  by Pallatini
> Abuela
> Shrek
> Daring Dog and Captain Cat, Where the
> Wild Things Are
> Heckety Peg by Woods
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> Mystery
> Cranberry Mystery
> The Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner  by Eileen
> Christelow
> Mystery of the Blue Paint by Steven Kellogg
> Mystery of the Green Ball by Steven Kellogg
> The 13th Clue by Ann Jonas
> Piggins by Jane Yolen
> Mystery on the Docks by Thacher Hurd
> Something Queer at the ...series by Elizabeth Levy
> Nate the Great series by Sharmat
> Young Cam Jansen series by Adler
> The Great Escape from City Zoo by Tohby Riddle
> The Case of the ... series by Crosby Bonsall
> Miss Mallard series by R. Quackenbush
> Black and White by David Macaulay
> The Mystery of King Karfu by Doug Cushman
> The Web Files by Margie Palatini
> The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg
> The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg
> The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van
> Allsburg
> Louanne's Valentine Mystery by Carlson
> Mystery of the Missing Mitten by Kellogg
> Grandpa's Teeth by Clement
> Rollo and Tweedy and the Ghost at Dougal Castle by
> Allen
> The Mystery of Sara Beth by Polly Putnam
> The High-Rise Private Eyes series by Cynthia Rylant
> (ex. The Case of the Sleepy Sloth)
> Nate the Great
> Something Queer books
> Web Files by Palantini
> Jonas' THE THIRTEENTH CLUE
> Young Cam Jansen series
> Case of the Anteater's lunch (and other in the
> series)
> by Binnimin
> Detective Valentine by A. Woods
>
> Drama
> not sure what you want here, but there are several
> books that are about Xmas pageants or plays;
> Amazing Grace [Peter Pan play]
>
> Adventure
> Dr. DeSoto Goes to Africa
> Mirette on the High Wire
> Shortcut
> Boundless Grace
> Polacco's THUNDER CAKE
> Togo
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> Science Fiction
> June 29, 1999
> Nova's Ark
> Zathura, by Chris Van Allsburg
> How about First Graders From Mars?  a cute new
> series....
> Baloney (Henry P.) by Jon Scieszka
> Minnie and Moo Save the Earth by Denys Cazet
> The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
> Tinker and Tom and the Star Baby by David McPhail
> Space Guys by Martha Weston
> Aliens for Lunch by Stephanie Spinner
> Aliens for Dinner by Stephanie Spinner
> Aliens for Breakfast by Stephanie Spinner
> Alien Opposites by Matthew Van Fleet
> Hush, Little Alien by Daniel Kirk
> Moonboy by Carolyn Garcia
> Here Come the Aliens! By Colin McNaughton
> Minnie and Moo Save the Earth by Denys Cazet
> George Hogglesberry: Grade School Alien by Sarah
> Wilson
> Alien Olympics by Stephen Cole
> Alien Invasions by Benjamin Kendall
> A to Z Aliens with Tattoos by Monique Z. Stephens
> Company's Coming by Arthur Yorinks
> Aliens from Earth by Mary Batten
> Aliens Took My Daughter by Little Friend Press
> The Kuekumber Kids Meet the Alphabet Alien by Pu E.
> Sutton
> First Day on a Strange New Planet by Dan Yaccarino
> Big Science Fair! By Dan Yaccarino
> Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!: I'm off to the Moon by Dan
> Yaccarino
> Patrick's Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick
> What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaur? by Carol
> Carrick
> Patrick's Dinosaurs on the Internet by Carol Carrick
> The Experiements of Dr. Vermin or Commander Toad
> Marshall's SPACE CASE
> Krptic the little space guy by Shrive
> The Wump World by Peet
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