First, we have a winner!
YAY Chris!
Email me your address @
Kathyellendaviswriter@gmail.com
and I’ll get “The End” out to you soon! 🙂
When I was younger,
I was an AMAZING colorer.
I won so many coloring contests.
For real.
Once I won a trip to the Ice Capades for my family.
Another time, a huge plastic pumpkin filled with candy.
When I was in first grade, I won the coloring contest EVERY WEEK.
Except the time that I was sick.
I was literally dragged out of the class,
clutching my coloring page.
They gave me third even though I didn’t finish coloring.
But I don’t count that one.
I somehow knew that I didn’t need a pity vote, even in first grade.
Have you seen this book?
It’s really fun!
P.S. I still color to this day.
Crayons are my favorite art supply!
Title: The Day the Crayons Quit
Published by: Philomel Books, 2013
Written by: Drew Daywalt
Illustrated by: Oliver Jeffers
Word Count: 999
Pages: 32
In one word: Crayonsy!
In one sentence: What are you to do to when you’re a crayon and you’re disgruntled? Write letters!
Favorite pages:
Likes:
- letters!
- crayons!
- a friendly disagreement about the true color of the sun!
- the illustrations are done with crayons
- the last picture is fabulous
Learns:
- Inanimate objects writing letters are cool
- What a relatable theme!
- Also, you can write a book about something (crayons) that makes others want to act (I dare you not to want to color or at least search for your crayons after reading this book!)
Ok, on to tomorrow!
KE and SS
Oh wow! Yay! I won!
I read “Take Me Out to the Yakyu”. I saw it as I was leaving the library on top of a bookshelf and grabbed it. It did not disappoint. It was great to see the differences and similarities. Need to learn more about the bus that turns into a train.
The Children’s Book Brunch was great. I’m tired though. And still on the road.
I read The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins, illustrated by Jill McElmurry.
The tree lady is Katherine Olivia Sessions, Mother of Balboa Park. The book follows Katherine’s life from her early fascination with trees through her commitment to finding trees that will grow in a hot, dry place like San Diego. Over and over, she faced challenges. And she met them! Exquisite illustrations. I love trees, and now that I know about her, I love Katherine Olivia Sessions.
That is my new favorite book Kathy. Today I read A Big Cheese for the White House by Candace Fleming and illustrated by S.D. Schindler. This is a true story of the townspeople of Cheshire, MA gifting a giant wheel of cheese to President Thomas Jefferson. It weighed over a thousand pounds and stood 4 ft high. Interesting piece of history. I enjoyed reading it.
Why don’t I know about this? lol I don’t live far from Cheshire, MA. I want to read this book and research this event. Thanks for the heads up about it.
I bought my first box of 64-count Crayolas when I was in Junior High (middle school). It was a treasure.
I read THE BLACK RABBIT. Adorable. I had a pet rabbit, and the illustrations brought back memories of her. I wonder if she feared the black rabbit, as this main character did, when I brought her outside with me to sit in the sun on the wicker bench. She wouldn’t leave my side. Unlike the rabbit in this book who ventures far in his effort to run from the huge black rabbit (his shadow, of course). Cute story, cute illustrations. Younger kids will giggle.
P.S. Written and illustrated by Philippa Leathers, 2013, Candlewick Press, 302 words.
This sounds like a book I would love!
We read a super-favorite around here, “Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb” by Al Perkins and illustrated by Eric Gurney. This book has been read 100+ times over the course of my parenting! And I’m not sick of it because it’s so much fun to read aloud. Funny monkey characters with lots of drums and silly made-up words, but also introduces a young audience to parts of the hand and some of the fun things our hands can do (pick plums! wear rings!).
I have that book on my to-read list! Can’t wait!
Today I read Today I Will Fly by Mo Willems. It is part of the Pig and Elephant series, which I absolutely love! They are all hilarious but also teach a lesson in a very non-pushy way.
My kids’ reaction to seeing the illustrations in that book was–I can draw better than that! haha
I read Hands Around the Library by Karen Leggett-Abouraya and Susan L. Roth, a very touching nonfiction book about protecting a library in Egypt. Awesome illustration paper cut outs from Susan Roth + great back matter, even real photos of the incident.
This book definitely makes it to one of my top new favorites. Can’t wait to use it to teach opinion writing in my class.
If you haven’t read SPLIT! SPLAT! by Amy Gibson and illustrated by Steve Bjorkman, you ought to! It’s a treat of rhythm, onomatopoeia, splashy watercolor illustrations, and puddle delight.
“Olivia Goes to Venice” by Ian Falconer.