* books mentioned in workshops
Art Books
Listeners and Younger Readers Brisson, Pat Your Best Friend, Kate and Kate Heads West and Kate on the Coast Child, Lauren Say Cheese!, Dial 2007 Gage, Amy Pascal's Magic Pictures Carolrhoda, 1996.
*Green, Rhonda When a line bends…a shape begins. Houghton, 1997. Hurd, Thacher Art Dog. Harper Collins, 1996 Jonas, Ann Color Dance Greenwillow, 1989 Johnson, Crockett Harold and the Purple Crayon 1998 (new ed.) Lach, William Baby Loves. Atheneum, 2002 *Lionni, Leo Little Blue and Little Yellow and Matthew’s Dream. Knopf, 1991 Lithgow, John. Micawber. Simon and Schuster, 2002 Mayhew, James. Katie's Sunday Afternoon (2005) and Katie Meets the Impressionists (1999) and Katie and the Mona Lisa (1999) Milgrim, David Cows Can't Fly. Viking, 1998 *Moon, Nicola Lucy’s Picture. Dial, 1994 O'Connor, Jane Fancy Nancy at the Museum. Harper Collins, 2008 Parish, Herman Amelia Bedilia's Masterpiece. Greenwillow, 2007 Pinkwater, Daniel Bear's Picture. Houghton Mifflin, 2008 Rumford, James Silent Music: Story of Baghdad. Roaring Book, 2008 Schwartz, Amy Begin @ the Beginning: A little artist learns about life. Katherine Tegen Books, 2005 Sherry, Kevin I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean. Dial, 2008. Snicket, Lemony A Lump of Coal Harper Collins 2008 Suen, Anastasia Scissors, Paper and Sharing Magic Wagon, 2007 Wallace, Nancy Look, Look, Look! Marshall Cavendish, 2006 Watt, Melanie Augustine Kids Can Press, 2008 Weitzman, Jacqueline Press You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum Dial, 1998. Juvenile Books Balliet, Blue Chasing Vermeer and Calder Game Broach, Eloise Masterpiece Henry Holt, 2008 Kimmel, Eric A Picture for Marc Random House, 2007 Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Atheneum, 1967. Marsden, Carolyn Silk Umbrellas Candlewick, 2004. Walker, Kate I Hate Books! Cricket, 2007. Young Adult Alexie, Sherman The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian Thorndike, 2008 Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak Farrar, Straus, and Girroux, 1999 Cirrone, Dorian Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You Harper Collins, 2005 Franklin, Emily The Other Half of Me Delacorte 2007 Giff, Patricia Reilly Pictures of Hollis Woods Wendy Lamb, 2002 Grey, Christopher Leonardo's Boy Atheneum, 2006 Haseley, Dennis Trick of the Eye Dial, 2004 Leavitt, Martine Heck, Superhero Front Street, 2004 Lockhart, E Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything Delacorte 2006 Meyer, Carolyn Marie, Dancing Harcourt, 2005 Myers, Walter Dean Autobiography of My Dead Brother Amistad, 2005 Parra, Kelly Graffiti Girl Pocket Books/MTV Books, 2007 Stewart, Sean and Jordan Weisman Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233 Running Kids, 2006
Adult Books Friedman, Debra Picture This: Fun Photography and Crafts Kids Can Press, 2003 Hansen, Anders Cool Collage Abdo, 2009 Wiese, Jim Movie Science John Wiley, 2001
Creative Writing Books Don't forget to look for ABC books, author autobiographies, rhyming stories (think Karma Wilson), books in verse and all of those book in the 398.2's, the 811.54, and the 808's.
Click here for a list of books that feature onomatopoetic words.
Listeners and Beginning Readers *Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou *Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss
Will You Read to Me? By Denys Cazet Cowboy Slim by Julie Danneberg When Gorilla Goes Walking by Nikki Grimes Corduroy Writes a Letter by Allison Inches Arthur and the Poetry Contest by Stephen Krensky Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story by Loreen Leedy *Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
A Bird About to Sing by Laura Montenegro Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O’Malley Slugs in Love by Susan Pearson Duck’s Tale by Herman van Straaten The Gardener by Sarah Stewart Once Upon a Poem: Favorite Poems that Tell Stories Juvenile The Trophy Kid or How I Was Adopted by the Rich and Famous by Steve Atinsky Moving Day by Meg Cabot Just another Day in My Insanely Real Life: A Novel by Barbara Dee Shaky Bones: A Story of the Harlem Renaissance by Pamela Dell Hate That Cat and Love that Dog by Sharon Creech Ms. Coco is Loco by Dan Gutman Race for the Sky by Dan Gutman Gooney, the Fabulous by Lois Lowry A Song for Harlem by Patricia McKissack The Totally Made-Up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish by Claudia Mills Sixth Grade by Susie Morgenstern The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy Science Verse by John Sciezka Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles Young Adult Rat Life by Ted Arnold Bloodline by Kate Cary Annie, Between the States by Laura Elliot Am I Right or Am I right? Barry Jonsberg Spinning Through the Universe: A Novel in Verse from Room 214 by Helen Frost Write Naked by Peter L. Gould Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes I’m Exploding Now by Sid Hite Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson Undercover by Beth Kephart Those Girls by Sara Lawrence Crushed by Laura and Tom McNeal Life is Fine by Allison Whittenberg Hard Love and Love and Lies: Marisol’s Story by Ellen Wittlinger Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner
Dance Books The Summer Reading Manual provides an extremely comprehensive list of books that are appropriate for the Be Creative theme. Below are some Dance books not listed in the manual.
Listeners and Beginning Readers Appelt, Kathi Toddler Two-Step Archambault, John Boom Chicka Rock Asch, Frank Moondance Beeke, Jemma The Rickety Barn Show Bottner, Barbara Bootsie Barker Ballerina Carlstrom, Nancy Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear Clement, Maryceleste Mr. Tootles and Those Oodles of Noodles Clement, Maryceleste Mr. Tootles and the Giggle Wiggles * Down in the Jungle
Driscoll, Laura Dance to the Rescue Dora the Explorer Coulman, Valerie I Am A Ballerina Durango, Julia Cha-Cha Chimps Elliott, David One Little Chicken: A Counting Book Evans, Richard Paul The Dance Ford, Bernette Ballet Class French, Jackie Josephine Wants to Dance Helldorfer, Mary Claire Got to Dance Hoff, Syd Duncan the Dancing Duck Hutchins, Pat Barn Dance Isadora, Rachel Sophie Skates Jonas, Ann Color Dance Koller, Jackie French Bouncing on the Bed Kopelke, Lisa Tissue, Please Krishnaswami, Uma The Happiest Tree: A Yoga Story London, Jonathan Sun Dance, Water Dance Lowery, Linda Twist with a Burger, Jitter with a Bug Man-Kong, Mary Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses Manson, Ainslie and Dean Griffiths Ballerinas Don't Wear Glasses McKissack, Patricia Mirandy and Brother Wind Meyers, Walter Dean Jazz Mitton, Tony Down by the Cool of the Pool Roberts, Angela Barbie Loves Ballet Ross, Katharine The Little Ballerina Say, Allen Music for Alice Schulz, Charles Shall We Dance Charlie Brown? Smith, Charles Dance With Me Young, Amy Belinda Begins Ballet Juvenile Dady, Debbie Wolfmen Don’t Hula Dance Fletcher, Christine Ten Cents a Dance Gallagher, Diana Dance Trap Porter, Tracy A Dance of Sisters Robinson, Sharon Slam Dunk! Striegel, Jana Homeroom Exercise Young Adult Appelt, Kathi Kissing Tennessee Calhoun, Dia The Pheonix Dance Cirrone, Dorian Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You DeMille, Agnes The Book of The Dance Levithan, David (ed.) 21 Proms Meyer, Carolyn Marie, Dancing Southgate, Martha Another Way to Dance Staples, Suzanne Fisher Shiva’s Dance Weyn, Susan The Night Dance Drama Books The Summer Reading Manual provides an extremely comprehensive list of books that are appropriate for the Be Creative theme. Below are some Theatre, Film and Creative Dramatic books not listed in the manual.
Listeners and Beginning Readers Appelt, Kathi Bat Jamboree Avi, Silent Movie Cuyler, Margery Hooray for Reading Day! Daly, Niki Bravo Zan Angelo: A Commedia Dell’Art Tale De Groat, Diana Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire Dussling, Jennifer The Longest Yawn *Falconer, Ian Olivia
* Hoffman, Alice Amazing Grace Krishnaswami, Uma The Happiest Tree: A Yoga Story Lester, Helen Tackylocks and the Three Bears Lithgow, John Marsupial Sue Presents the Runaway Pancake Peters, Bernadette Broadway Barks Rogers, Gregory The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard * Rosen, Michael Going on a Bear Hunt
Shulman, Mark Stella the Star * Wells, Rosemary The School Play Juvenile Blackwood Gary Shakespeare’s Spy, etc. Bonk, John Dustin Grubbs, Take Two Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker Leap of Faith Hale, Bruce Give My Regrets to Broadway Keene, Carolyn No Strings Attached Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody Spin the Bottle Kline, Suzy Horrible Harry Bugs the Three Bears Matlin, Marlee Leading Ladies Osborn, Mary Pope A Time to Dance Paratore, Colleen Willa By Heart Roberts, Diane Puppet Pandemonium Sendak, Maurice Higglety, Pigglety Pop: Or There Must be More to Life Siebold, Jan My Nights at the Improv Thomson, Sarah Secret of the Rose Wesley, Valerie Wilson How to (almost) Ruin your School Play Weston, Martha Act I, Act II, Act Normal Ziefert, Harriet A Class Play with Ms. Vanilla Young Adult Golding, Julia The Diamond of Drury Lane Jones, Patrick Nailed Klam, Cheryl The Pretty One Koja, Kathe Talk L’Engle, Madeline The Joys of Love McWilliams, Kelly Doormat Rallison, Janet Fame, Glory and Other Things on My To Do List Scott, Kieran Geek Magnet: A Novel in Five Acts Selfors, Suzanne Saving Juliet Wilkins, Rose So Super Starry Wood, Maryrose My Life, the Musical
Music Books There are many books listed in the Summer Reading Manual, but here are some that are not listed. Don't forget about biographies of musicians and performers! |