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Showing posts with label books for teachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books for teachers. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Gift Idea #5: Books Teachers Would Love
Give the gift that gives all year. An enchanting read-aloud, an illustrated moment in history, a story about a teacher who changed a child's world.
Here are six ideas -- for more gift ideas and close-ups of these covers, scroll down for a slide show or click here.
Watership Down, by Richard Adams, illustrated by Aldo Galli, Atheneum, $29.99, ages 10 and up, 496 pages. A band of rabbits flees its comfy warren to live in the Berkshire Downs after a psychic buck named Fiver predicts danger, in this first-ever illustrated version of the 1972 classic. Luminous pictures capture the magic of Adam's heroic tale -- originally told to his children over a long car journey.
Because You Are My Teacher, by Sherry North, illustrated by Marcellus Hall, Abrams, $16.95, ages 4 and up, 32 pages. A teacher takes her class on an imaginary journey to seven continents (by schooner, camels, helicopter and skis), in this beautiful, rhyming picture book by the creators of Because You Are My Baby. "If we had a schooner, we would have our class at sea / And study the Atlantic, where the great blue whales roam free," the book begins.
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Little Red Pen
By Susan Stevens Crummel
Illustrated by Janet Stevens
Harcourt, 2011
$16.99, ages 4-8, 56 pages
A high-strung pen incites a drawer full of school supplies to help her grade papers, in this hilarious twist on two beloved fables.
The award-winning Stevens sisters play with themes from Chicken Little (the folly of hysteria) and The Little Red Hen (the importance of hard work) to suggest a funny new lesson:
Spreading unfound fear and panic can help get a job done -- especially if you're a paranoid pen in a storybook and you're working with a gullible set of school supplies.
One day after class, a red correction pen in glasses and a pointy red cap proclaims in Chicken Little fashion that a catastrophe will occur -- if papers aren't corrected before students return the next day.
However, like Little Red Hen, she can't find anyone to help her.
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