[LM_NET] HIT: Essential Children's Books

[Teresa Tartaglione <thisisteresat@GMAIL.COM>]

Many thanks for all of your kind words, encouragement and wonderful
suggestions!

All the best,

  Teresa Tartaglione
 Teacher-Librarian
Louis D. Brandeis High School
145 West 84th St
New York, NY 10024
(917) 441-5600
TTartaglione@schools.nyc.gov

MW Brown - Good night moon
Carle -
Christelow - Five little monkeys ...
Henkes - many
Hutchins - Rosie's walk
Hutchins - Titch (series)
Hutchins - Don't forget the bacon
Hutchins - Ten red apples
Lionni - Inch be inch
Lionni - Swimmy
Martin - Brown bear ...
Numeroff -If you take a Mouse ...
Raschka -
Sendak - Where the wild things are
Seuss -
Shaw - Sheep ...
Tafuri - Have you seen my duckling & others
Walsh - Mouse count & others
R Wells - Max & others
Willems -
Selection of folklore and fairy tales
Nursery rhymes

I know there are many more.
Good luck.


Linda Sukovich, LMS
Gallman Elementary
255 Hawkins Rd.
Newberry, SC 29108
803.321.2655
lsukovich@newberry.k12.sc.us



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Hi Teresa,
I saw your e-mail and wanted to share with you the Association for
Library Service to Children's (ALSC) Notable Children's Book list.  The
list is put togheter by a committee who is charged with identifying "the
best of the best in children's book."  Here's a link to the Web site:
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/childrensnotable/notablec
booklist/currentnotable.cfm

Hope this helps! :)

Sincerely,

Jenny Najduch, Marketing Specialist
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
A division of the American Library Association

50 E. Huron
Chicago, IL 60611
phone: (312) 280-4026
fax: (312) 280-5271
jnajduch@ala.org



These are some of my personal favorites:

Kevin Henkes books, especially *Owen* and the "Lilly" books
*The Napping House* by Don & Audrey Wood
*Love You Forever* by Robert Munsch (I also love *Thomas's Snowsuit*, but
some people think it encourages kids to be disrespectful)
Any books by Lisa Campbell Ernst
*My Big Dog* by Janet Stevens (she has several excellent books)

Hope that helps.

Jane Frizzell
Media Specialist/Consultant
Area Education Agency  267
9184 265th Street, Suite B
Clear Lake, IA 50428
Ph. 1-800-392-6640 or 641-357-6125
Fax: 641-357-3201
www.aea267.k12.ia.us
jfrizzell@aea267.k12.ia.us



I have many favorites, but these stand out:

Bang, Molly.  *When Sophie Gets Angry: Really, Really Angry.*

Carle, Eric.  *The Very Hungry Caterpillar.*

Garo, Tomi.  *Spring Is Here.*

Henkes, Kevin.  *Kitten's First Full Moon.*

Hort, Lenny.  *The Seals on the Bus.*

Koller, Jackie French.  *One Monkey Too Many *and *Seven Spunky Monkeys *
(sequel).

Maccarone, Grace.  *"What Is That? Said the Cat."*

Rathmann, Peggy.*  10 Minutes till Bedtime.*

Root, Phyllis*,  Oliver Finds His Way.*

Willems, Mo.  *Knuffle Bunny *and *Knuffle Bunny Too.*

Willems, Mo.  *My Friend Is Sad* and others in series.


Basya Karp, Librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School For Girls
Brooklyn, New York
basyak10@hotmail.com

Wow, what a great service for your patrons!  I hope this goes well for you,
and others learn from it.  Here is a link to a great site that breaks
preschool books down into themes so you can order a little of everything!
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/book-themes.htm



Raynette Schulte
Young Adult Librarian
Watertown Regional Library
Watertown, SD
rschulte@watertownsd.us



Teresa,

Someone has posted a fairly decent list on the LM_NET wiki
http://lmnet.wikispaces.com

Click on "Booklists" then "Elem in HS"

I also want to start a collection for teens to use to read with young
children. I used to be a librarian in an early childhood school and I'm
trying to rely on my memory of what were our favorite story times.

Julie Dahlhauser, librarian
Jackson Central-Merry High School
Jackson, Tennessee

Off the top of my head, absolute musts for a young children's library
Goodnight Moon by Brown
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Martin
Hop on Pop by Dr. Suess
Any Eric Carle books

Any Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert, Bill Martin, Jr., and Kevin Henkes titles
would be great additions.

Joan Dreier
Media Specialist
Deerwood Elementary

Joan.dreier@district196.org

I worked in a high school library and I had a small section of easy books --
about 100. Our school had a child development class which had a small
nursery school for part of the year.



I also did a unit about Dr. Seuss with the English as a Second Language
students. I had about 30 Dr. Seuss books for the students to use for this.



During orientation every year, I demonstrated the online card catalog to
each 9th grade English class. I asked students to name a book that they
wanted to look up in the card catalog. The most popular title they asked for
was Green Eggs and Ham.



Jan Davies

Retired Media Specialist

Ashburn, VA.

Bark, George; My Friend Rabbit; Caps for Sale; Kitten's First Full Moon;
Clifford the Big Red Dog; Hello Goodbye Window;

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> Hello All:
>
> I am a high school librarian in NYC and serve a pretty large population of
> young mothers and fathers.  I want to start a small collection of
> children's
> books in my library that the young parents can check out for their
> children.  Since I primarily order for young adults, I am lacking in the
> children's book department.  I was hoping I could pick your collective
> brains and get some titles that you think are "must haves" for my
> potential
> collection!  I will post a hit!
>
>  Teresa Tartaglione
> Teacher-Librarian
> Louis D. Brandeis High School
> 145 West 84th St
> New York, NY 10024
> (917) 441-5600
> TTartaglione@schools.nyc.gov
>

 Maybe this list  will help get you started.
http://streetcat.bankstreet.edu/pdf/picbooks.pdf



Lisa Von Drasek
Children's Librarian
Bank Street College of Education
School for Children Pre-K- 8
610 West 112th St
NY  NY   10025

lisav@bnkst.edu

212 875 4452

The Seuss books  that everyone should know - they are fun! and provide basic
skills in rhyming and phonics
 Hop on Pop
One fish, Two Fish, Red fish, Blue Fish

Frog and Toad books by Lobel - simple stories, well crafted, can be read
over and over and over and .....


Mary Jane Krajnak
Kodiak Middle School Library
722 Mill Bay Road
Kodiak, AK 99615
mkrajnak@alaska.com
mkrajnak01@kodiakschools.org

These are MUSTs!



Knuffle Bunny and Knuffle Bunny Too by Mo Willams

Hello Goodbye Window

Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willams

The Recess Queen

Eric Carle books (all)



There are lots more...but these are musts!



Lots of Luck,



Teresa




"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about
education." Harold Howe, former U. S. Commissioner of Education ...

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of
an ignorant nation."
- Walter Cronkite

Teresa Wetherell
Media Coordinator
Highcroft Drive Elementary
5415 Highcroft Drive
Cary, NC  27519

Teresa:  Great idea to add picture books to your collection!  I'd recommend
getting many of the titles as board books since most of their children will
be very young.  Time for Bed by Mem Fox is a favorite that I often give as a
baby gift.  I was a HS Librarian for one year with a lot of student parents
also.  I worked with the teacher of our Parenting classes and once a month I
spoke to her students about the importance of reading aloud to their
children.  I shared research with them about infant brain development.  I
included info from Jim Trelease's website and shared some of the articles
from the School Library Journal column First Steps.  The article "Oh! What a
Smart Baby" from the Feb. 2005 SLJ issue (p. 37) really caught the kids
attention and explained brain development and the importance of reading
aloud in a way the kids could understand.  Trelease's website isn't
particularly well laid out (in my opinion), but it has a wealth of info.  I
shared strategies for keeping wiggly kids interested.  I explained things to
look for that might signal concerns about a pre-schooler's development and
where to go for help if a child shows any signs of a developmental delay.  I
also solicited donations of used picture books and each month when I spoke
with the kids they got to take home one or more books to keep.  Two teachers
at my school donated $100 for me to buy new books.  I signed up for the
Scholastic program where you send home flyers and school kids can place
orders for cheap books.  None of my kids ever ordered books for their
children, but as a teacher/librarian, it's a great way to get super cheap
paperback picture books.  All of the student parents seemed genuinely
appreciative of the information I shared with them and the books they got.
 I did order a few picture books for the library as well.  I worked with one
of the English teachers on a lesson using picture books to teach literary
devices and that lesson was a big hit.  I figured the picture book purchases
were easy to justify between those two purposes.  I'm so glad you are
offering the picture books for your students.  You can really make a
difference for your HS students and their children.

Cati Partridge, Librarian
Gregory-Portland Intermediate School
4200 Wildcat Dr.
Portland, TX 78374
361-643-4404

If most of the children are toddlers, I would stick with board books. They
are harder for them to tear. Titles like "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do
You See", "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear", David Shannon's
David books, Eric Carle. These are some that I can think of off the top of
my head.


Larnette Snow, Librarian
Blue Ridge Elementary School (K-7)
P. O. Box 30
5135 Ararat Hwy.
Ararat, VA 24053
br-lib@patrickcounty.org

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