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I. Current Books in Children’s Lit

I. Current Books in Children’s Lit . Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. -Maya Angelou. Areas to Consider . Early childhood Pre-K through 2 nd grade Elementary 2 nd through 4 th

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I. Current Books in Children’s Lit

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  1. I. Current Books in Children’s Lit Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. -Maya Angelou

  2. Areas to Consider • Early childhood • Pre-K through 2nd grade • Elementary • 2nd through 4th • Upper Elementary through Middle • 4th through 8th • Teen or Young Adult (YA) • 8th through 12th

  3. Early Childhood • Picture Books • Some things never change • Dr. Seuss, Jan Brett , David Shannon, Harriet Ziefert, etc. • Some things do change • Picture book themes are constantly moving back and forth. Often similar stories are being retold with different language and style. • More modern picture books are starting to have little to no words and are gaining popularity. These are wonderful for teaching inference.

  4. New Titles • A is for Musk Ox / Musk Ox Counts • Wilfred • Toads on Toast • The Dark • Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon • Mr. Tiger Goes Wild • Blessing Cup • That is Not a Good Idea • Little Red Writing • Moonday • The Pet Project • Battle Bunny

  5. Themes for the Classroom • Bluebird (wordless) • Mr. Wuffles (wordless) • Exclamation Point ! (use of punctuation) • Boy who Loved Math; The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos  (Math) • The Invisible Boy (fitting in) • Llama Llama and the Bully Goat (bullies) • Day the Crayons Quit (art) • Henri’s Scissors (art & art history) • Tabby McTat; The Musical Cat (music)

  6. Leveled Easy Readers • Graphic reader style • A new appearance of easy readers in a comic book style format. • Reading level is comparable • Style is engaging and different than the norm

  7. Elementary • Chapter books • New line: Branches by Scholastic • Newly independent readers ages 5-7 and kids who are ready to “cross over” from beginning readers but are not quite ready for traditional chapter books. • Meets Common Core Standards • Multiple stories and styles for the different reader

  8. Our favorites • The End of the Beginning-Avi • Bink and Gollie-Kate DiCamillo • Frankly Frannie-AJ Stern • Dragonbreath-Ursula Vernon • Geronimo Stilton & Thea Stilton-ElisabettaDami (pseudonym) • Ivy and Bean- Annie Barrows • Never Girls-Kiki Thorpe

  9. Upper Elementary and Middle • More focus on not only “including” special needs characters, but making them the star of the story • Wonder-R.J Palacio • Paperboy-Vice Vawter • Cameron and the Girls – Edward Averett • The Bully Book –Eric Kahn Gale • Counting by 7s –Holly Goldber Sloan • Fat Angie (teen, 14+)-E. E Charlton-Trujillo • This is a wonderful change for children’s literature and a long time coming .

  10. New Middle Grade Favorites • School for Good and Evil –Chainani • Tangle of Knots-Graff • The Ascendance Trilogy (the false prince, the runaway king, The Shadow Throne)-Nielsen • The Lost Kingdom-Kirby • Rump, the true story of Rumpelstiltskin –Shurtliff • Pegasus-Ohearn • When Did You Last See Her-Snicket • Loki’s Wolves-Armstrong • The Ability-Vaughan • Fortunately the Milk-Gaiman • Bad Unicorn-Clark

  11. Young Adult (YA) 14+ • The Ruining-Collomore • Orleans-Smith • All the Truth That’s in Me –Berry • Just One Day/Just One Year-Forman • Panic-Draper • The Beautiful and the Cursed- Morgan • Wide Awake-Smith • Fangirl-Rowell • Eleanor and Park –Rowell • Where’d You Go Bernadette –Semple • Perfect Ruin-Destefano • Allegiant (Divergent Series)-Roth

  12. Young Adult (YA) 14+ • While the major dystopian literature series are nearing conclusion, Hunger Games, Maze Runner, Matched, and this fall, Divergent, we see no end in sight (pun intended) • Mythical-love stories seem to still be on the uptake • Love stories, realistic or mythical, will forever be popular with teens (and their moms!)

  13. LGBT Literature • LGBT Literature has become much more popular. Authors are not only including chapters who are of LGBT orientation but are also making them the stars of the stories. • Openly Straight-Konigsberg • Two Boys Kissing-Levithan • Miseducation of Cameron Post-Danforth • The Summer Prince-Johnson

  14. Nonfiction • Who Is… What Was… by Penguin Publishing • Bios and information about great people and events in a small, illustrated, 48-50 page paperback • Basher History U.S Presidents • Let It Shine; stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters • Dinosaurology • Randalph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing • Thrice Told Tales • Boy on the Wooden Box • The Animal Book (Steve Jenkins) • Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and BiruteGaldikas

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