Everyone is a reader. . .
Some just haven’t found their
favourite book yet.
Session 1 – Barb’s Picks
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Global Read Aloud
@pernilleripp
http://globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com
Book trailers
https://www.schooltube.com/video/1d90b38
d37b94915a787/Out%20of%20My%20Mind%
20Book%20Trailer
Global Read Aloud
• 2013
• Geoff Herbach
• Sharon M. Draper
• Kate Messner
• Eric Carle
Global Read Aloud
• 2014
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Fault in our Stars
One for the Murphys
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Edward Tulane
Peter H. Reynolds
Newbery Winners
• Outstanding Contribution to Children’s
Literature
• 2013
• Kate DiCamillo
• Flora & Ullysses
Newbery Winners
• Honor Books – 2014
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Doll Bones by Holly Black
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
One Came Home – Amy Timberlake
Paperboy – Vince Vawter
Newbery Winner
• 2013
• The One and Only Ivan
• Katherine Applegate
Caldecott Books
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Most Distinguished Picture Book
Brian Floca – author &
Illustrator
Non-fiction
• Also illustrated Marty Maguire books
Caldecott Books
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Honor Books – 2014
Journey – Aaron Becker
Flora & the Flamingo – Molly Idle
Mr. Wuffles – David Weisner
Caldecott Winner
• Jon Klassen –
• Canadian author/illustrator
The Nerdy Book Club
• http://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/
• Follow the blog
• See April 12th blogpost – The Top Ten Reasons
I Can’t Stop Reading Children’s & Young Adult
Literature
• Lots of Top 10 Lists
The Nerdy Book Club
• Led me to the other bloggers (see list on right
side of homepage)
• Watch, Connect, Read – John Schumacher,
• @MrSchuReads
• Sharpread - @colbysharp
• Donalyn Miller -@donalynbooks
• Teri Lesesne - @professornana
• Franki Sibberson
More from Nerdy Book Club
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TeachMentorTexts
YA Love
Read, Write, Reflect
@PaulWHankins
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe
New Talent Award
• When the Beat was Born, D.J. Kool Herc & the
Creation of Hip Hop
• Laban Carrick Hill, 2013
• Illustrated by Theodore
Taylor III
More Winners
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear.
• Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Barb’s Picks
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Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl
Winter Girls – Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
Ice Dogs – Terry Lynn Johnson
Wonder – R.J. Palacio
David Levithan – Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, 2
Boys Kissing, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with
John Greene)
Barb’s Picks
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Waiting for Early – Clare Vanderpol
Librarian on the Roof – M.G. King
Battle Bunny – Jon Scieszka & Matt Barnett
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies – Mick Cochrane
The Animal Book – Steve Jenkins
Stuck – Oliver Jeffers
The Day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild – Peter Brown
Z is for Moose – Kelly Bingham, Paul Zelinsky,
illustrator
Heather’s Picks
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Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Chris Hadfield An Astronauts Guide to the
Universe
• Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Math Books
• Sir Cumference and . . . By Cindy Neuschwander.
(approx 10 books)
• What’s your Angle, Pythagoras? By Julie Ellis.
• The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang
• Math Fables by Greg Tang
• How They Croaked, The Awful Ends of the Awfully
Famous by Georgia Bragg
• The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman
• Math Curse by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Young Adult Fiction
• http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/living/youn
g-adult-fiction-evolution/index.html
Goodreads
• http://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/bestbooks-2013
• http://canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.ca/