Books throughout time have been the first versions of great adventure stories that are told again and again in movies, on television, and in plays. Characters we all know began on a printed page. Think about your favorite characters or stories. Have you read the book, or all the books in the series? A visit to the library or bookstore may surprise you with more stories to read about your favorite characters.
Examples of Great, Grand Adventure Stories in Books:
HARRY POTTER BOOKS (7)
WIZARD OF OZ BOOKS (14)
WRINKLE IN TIME BOOKS (5 & at least 4 more with related characters)
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA BOOKS (7)
ALICE IN WONDERLAND BOOKS (2)
LORD OF THE RING BOOKS (3 & THE HOBBIT)
Other Great Adventures:
REDWALL SERIES (22)
TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN
BRIAN’S SAGA (5, beginning with HATCHET)
WALK TWO MOONS & THE WANDERER
Test of Time Adventures:
NANCY DREW (56 to 175 & other series with same characters)
TRIXIE BELDON (39)
BOXCAR CHILDREN BOOKS (19 to 149 & other series with same characters)
List your favorite adventures from new books. Examples might include:
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS BOOKS (13)
Resources for Finding Books to Read:
COOPERATIVE CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL
A MIGHTY GIRL
Showing posts with label Book Journey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Journey. Show all posts
2019/01/30
2017/01/31
New Friends in Fictionalized Non-Fiction
When I was in about fourth grade, I started reading biographies from the school library. Most of these books had a plain teal blue cover with orange-red lettering. Each book introduced me to a historical person. But the books made me feel like I was meeting a new and interesting person, who would take me on an adventure with them. True, but not exactly, fun, and just for me.
I loved being in my fantasy world with interesting people experiencing other times and places. I had become a reader with non-fiction books. Then, I read THE BOXCAR CHILDREN. I'm still obsessed with mysteries, adventure, and characters that feel like a new friends. Non-fiction gives me needed breaks, and, maybe, keeps my feet on the ground. Books are some of my best friends.
Now, I'm interested in fictionalized non-fiction. How do these new books read? What kind of friends are on this School Library Journal list. Join me with a new adventure in the library.
SLJ Fictionalized Non-Fiction
I loved being in my fantasy world with interesting people experiencing other times and places. I had become a reader with non-fiction books. Then, I read THE BOXCAR CHILDREN. I'm still obsessed with mysteries, adventure, and characters that feel like a new friends. Non-fiction gives me needed breaks, and, maybe, keeps my feet on the ground. Books are some of my best friends.
Now, I'm interested in fictionalized non-fiction. How do these new books read? What kind of friends are on this School Library Journal list. Join me with a new adventure in the library.
SLJ Fictionalized Non-Fiction
2015/10/31
Spooky Stories
Check out books by these authors at the library:
Avi: SOMETHING UPSTAIRS
Bruce Coville: THE GHOST IN THE THIRD ROW
Neil Gaiman: THE GRAVEYARD BOOK
R. L. Stine: WELCOME TO DEAD HOUSE (Goosebumps)
Jane Yolen: THE BAGPIPER'S GHOST; for preschoolers: CREEPY MONSTERS, SLEEPY MONSTERS
Avi: SOMETHING UPSTAIRS
Bruce Coville: THE GHOST IN THE THIRD ROW
Neil Gaiman: THE GRAVEYARD BOOK
R. L. Stine: WELCOME TO DEAD HOUSE (Goosebumps)
Jane Yolen: THE BAGPIPER'S GHOST; for preschoolers: CREEPY MONSTERS, SLEEPY MONSTERS
2015/04/30
The Hero’s Journey
Some of the most popular stories in books are of a
hero’s journey. Here are a few famous books using the hero’s journey.
ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero
Harry Potter series
The Time Quartet
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Hobbit
The Oz books
Alice in Wonderland
Which book is your favorite? Your librarian,
teacher, or parent can help you find a hero’s journey book to read. Movies use
the hero’s journey sometimes. Watch this clip from TED ED to learn about this
kind of story. The journeys begin in the ordinary world. Do you hear the call
to adventure?
ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero
2015/02/28
Reading Aloud
A picture book to practice reading aloud with is THE
ANIMAL THAT DRANK UP SOUND. Most of the words are easy. The punctuation helps
to learn how to phrase the lines when reading aloud.
THE ANIMAL THAT DRANK UP SOUND by William Stafford,
pictures by Debra Frasier (Harcourt, 1992).
2014/10/30
Live Your Life as Light
October 2 is International Day of Nonviolence, in honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. He was born on this day in 1869 in India. Gandhi went to school in London, UK. His legacy is of a leader using nonviolent civil disobedience to create change.
GRANDFATHER GANDHI is a new picture book for all
ages of readers to understand how to live one’s life as light. The book’s
website includes the Live Your Life as Light Pledge, activities to help one
understand feelings of anger, and a short video.
The Anger Journal suggestions were written by
Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi. Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus wrote this new
book for new generations of people to understand how change can be nonviolent.
The book shows how to use anger in a positive way.
GRANDFATHER GANDHI by Arun Gandhi and Bethany
Hegedus, pictures by Evan Turk (Simon & Schuster, 2014).
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Pencil Journey
Visit GRANDFATHER GANDHI's website and follow the steps to write about when you had feelings of anger. How could you use your anger in a good way? Take the pledge with your family and/or classroom.
2014/08/06
Biography
What is a biography?
A biography is the life story of a person. Books about people are called biographies.
In fourth, fifth, and sixth grade, I
often checked out a biography from the school library. The books filled
my mind with many stories about lives of people who became famous and their choices.
Here are a few picture book biographies from my
cupboard reading shelf today:
RACHEL CARSON AND HER BOOK THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
by Laurie Lawlor, pictures by Laura Beingessner (Holiday House, 2012).
A RIVER OF WORDS: THE STORY OF WILLIAM CARLOS
WILLIAMS by Jen Bryant, pictures by Melissa Sweet (Eerdmans, 2008).
ART FROM HER HEART: FOLK ARTIST CLEMENTINE HUNTER
by Kathy Whitehead, pictures by Shane W. Evans (Putnam, 2008).
MISS LADY BIRD’S WILDFLOWERS: HOW A FIRST LADY
CHANGED AMERICA by Kathi Appelt, pictures by Joy Fisher Hein (HarperCollins,
2005).
Author Donna Bowman Bratton has created a mashup of
the word “birthday” and “biographies” to make-up “birthdayographies.” Read
about biographies on the birthdays of the famous at her blog, BIRTHDAYOGRAPHIES. Thanks, Donna, for sharing!
2014/06/28
The Caldecott Medal
CR Questions:
1. Who was The Caldecott Medal named after?
A.
Miss Potter
B.
Miss Greenaway
C.
Mr. Caldecott
2. What is on The Caldecott Medal?
A. A
galloping horse
B. Hunting
dogs
C. A
crouching cat
Answers:
1. The
correct answer is Mr. Caldecott. After reading about Mr. Caldecott, try to find
out what Miss Potter and Miss Greenaway did.
2. The
correct answer is a galloping horse from The
Diverting History of John Gilpin, published in 1878. After reading more,
how did Mr. Caldecott learn to draw a galloping horse?
Read all about Mr. Caldecott:
RANDOLPH CALDECOTT: THE MAN WHO COULD NOT STOP
DRAWING by Leonard S. Marcus with drawings by Randolph Caldecott (Farrar Straus
Giroux, 2013).
The Caldecott Medal book for 2014:
LOCOMOTIVE by Brian Floca (Atheneum Books, 2013).
Pencil Journey: It's time to find color pencils and start
drawing!
2014/02/14
Journey into the Past
Students,
parents, and teachers wanting to learn about American history through all kinds
of activities and books can visit the Our White House website from The National
Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance.
OUR WHITE HOUSE
OUR WHITE HOUSE
Road
trip guides are on the website, too!
FAMILY FIELD GUIDE
More
info:
THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK AND LITERACY ALLIANCE
2013/10/31
A Halloween Reading
CAUTION—
this scary reading by Benjamin Percy is for those not going to bed right now:
https://www.graywolfpress.org/blogs/most-terrifying-story-youll-ever-hearthis scary reading by Benjamin Percy is for those not going to bed right now:
Night-night.
2013/06/30
Linnea's Stories & Guys Read
Rust recommends:
A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO by Richard Peck (Dial,
1998).
Caro recommends:
A YEAR DOWN YONDER by Richard Peck (Dial, 2000).
For more books that GUYS READ:
2012/12/12
CLOUD KEY
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| How Do We Get There? copyright 2008 Linnea Heaney |
Around the Home: activities for fun
Book Questions: interesting questions
Book Journey: books to read
Linnea's Stories: about Linnea’s stories
Pencil
Journey: art and writing activities
Picture
Book Shelf: picture books to read aloud
Road
Journey: on the road ideas
Trail
Journey: on the trail ideas
Linnea's Website
Linnea's Website
http://www.linneaheaney.com/
Linnea's Illuminated Notes
Linnea's Illuminated Notes
Linnea's Illustrated Stories
2012/10/13
Page Turned: Sendak
Artist
and writer Maurice Sendak died this year. His art and papers are in the Rosenbach
Museum & Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are always some
of his pictures and books on exhibit at the museum for people on a road journey to
see.
Here
is a short list of his books to find at a library or bookstore:
THE
SIGN ON ROSIE’S DOOR, story and pictures by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row,
1960).
NUTSHELL
LIBRARY, story and pictures by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row, 1962).
WHERE
THE WILD THINGS ARE, story and pictures by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row,
1963).
HIGGLETY
PIGGLETY POP! OR THERE MUST BE MORE TO LIFE, story and pictures by Maurice
Sendak (Harper & Row, 1967).
IN
THE NIGHT KITCHEN, story and pictures by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row,
1970).
SOME
SWELL PUP OR ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT A DOG? story by Maurice Sendak and Matthew
Margolis, pictures by Maurice Sendak (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976).
Pencil
Journey
Read
the book, The Sign on Rosie’s Door. Find
markers or crayons. And construction paper plus string and tape. Make a sign for
a door using words and drawings. When friends come over, dress-up and put
together a musical show. Invite an audience to enter the door with the sign to
see the musical show.
2012/09/28
Books With A Wrinkle
WHEN
YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead (Random House, 2009).
A
WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeliene L’Engle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962).
A
WRINKLE IN TIME: The Graphic Novel by Madeliene L’Engle, pictures by Hope
Larson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012).
CR Question:
Which
author was first to use “it was a dark and stormy night” in the first sentence
of their novel?
A. Snoopy
B. Madeliene L’Engle
C. None of the above
Answer:
The answer is the first letter in the word Cupboard; the words were first used
in 1830 by Edward
Bulwer-Lytton.
2012/08/30
Books About Books
On
reading books:
READ
TO YOUR BUNNY, story and pictures by Rosemary Wells (Scholastic, 1997).
On
writing a book:
WORD
AFTER WORD AFTER WORD by Patricia MacLachlan (HarperCollins, 2010).
On
making a book:
HOW
A BOOK IS MADE, story and pictures by Aliki (Harper Trophy, 1986).
On
bringing books to readers:
DOWN
CUT SHIN CREEK: THE PACK HORSE LIBRARIANS OF KENTUCKY by Kathi Appelt and Jeanne
Cannella Schmitzer (HarperCollins, 2001).
2012/04/26
About Friends
CHARLOTTE’S
WEB by E. B. White (Harper, 1952).
All about the journey of Charlotte’s Web:
THE
ANNOTATED CHARLOTTE’S WEB by E. B. White, notes by Peter F. Neumeyer (Harper Trophy,
1952, 1994).
THE
STORY OF CHARLOTTE’S WEB by Michael Sims (Walker & Co, 2011).
2011/11/08
Books With Journeys
HATCHET by Gary Paulsen (Simon & Schuster, 1987).
SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL by Patricia MacLachlan (HarperCollins, 1985).
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