Why I Picked It Up: I loved the colors on the front and the illustration on the cover. The title intrigued me, as did the tag line. Diversity is one of the topics we collect books on for our Newer Choices session. Bonus: Sotomayor is in the Texas standards! Why I Finished It: I have […]
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Book Review: One Word from Sophia, by Jim Averbeck and Yasmeen Ismail
Why I Picked It Up: I was at the Texas Association for Literacy Education conference in Waco and One Word from Sophia was shared during a session I attended. Immediately I swiped it into my Amazon cart (yes, while the session was still happening)! Why I Finished It: Well, I didn’t have a choice the […]
Book Review: What’s the Difference? By Emma Strack
Why I Picked It Up: I am always on the hunt for nonfiction text structures (click the tabs at the top of this mentor text list). This one came up as a perfect “compare and contrast”! Why I Finished It: What’s the Difference? asks the reader to consider the difference between pairs of objects, such as […]
Book Review: I Got It!, by David Wiesner
I hate baseball. But I LOVED this book!
Book Review: If You Had a Jetpack, by Lisl H. Detlefsen
This book is a wild, crazy, imaginative adventure that had my kids giggling the whole time we were reading.
Three Vibrant Picture Books To Teach Big Content
All of these books used color as a vehicle to tell a much larger story.