false 26 180 180 true 5868779 read 0 true 4306342 currently-reading 0 true 4306341 to-read 30 false 4651356 lled-catalog 5 false 4402105 bridget---bedtime-story 4 false 4402100 krystal---silly 4 false 4402118 alecia---animal-narration 3 false 4402098 elizabeth-mixed-up-fairy-tales 3 false 4402107 sean---trouble-maker 3 false 4402102 alyssa---pennsylvania 2 false 4402108 brianna---tragedy 2 false 4402106 amanda---wordless 2 false 4440605 lauren---best-illustration 1 false 4402101 elissa---child-like-illustrations 1 false 4402099 brittany---seasonal 0 false 4402121 kirstin http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53848796 to: Madeline (Paperback) by Ludwig Bemelmans
bookshelves: lled-catalog
Illustrator: Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher: Viking Press
Date of Publication: 1958

Genre: Poetry, humor, classics
Reading level: age 5-9
Theme: courage, compassion, spirited heroine, concern

Curricula use: teach children about other cultures
teach children about different issues concerning various themes.
Social Issues: Orphanage, Culture

Text & Pictures: The illustrations capture a child's interest right from the start. The pictures of Paris allow you to know the setting from the start and throughout the book.
Summary; twelve girls live in an old house covered with vines, and they walk in two straight lines wherever they go. Madeline, the smallest, is not afraid of anything but then she has to go to the hospital to have her appendix removed.
After the operation, her teacher, Miss Clavel, brings the girls to visit. Madeline has many gifts and flowers--but likes her scar best of all. The story ends with the other girls crying, "Boohoo, we want to have our appendix out, too!"

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53846550 to: The Mitten Tree (Hardcover) by Candace Christiansen
bookshelves: lled-catalog
Illustrator: Elaine Greenstein
Publisher: Scholastic
Date of Publication: 1997

Genre: fiction narrative picture book
Reading Level: age 4-9
Theme: friendship, loneliness, giving, contentment

Curricula use: use as a read aloud, shared reading, and independent reading
Social Issues: Community awareness.

Text & Pictures: The illustrations are wonderful. Greenstein used watercolor to blend the story together. The pictures and the text go well together.

Summary: An older lady, Sarah, is lonely because her children are all grown up and then she sees a little boy who does not have mittens. She decides to knit him some mittens and put them somewhere where she knows he will find them. She then decides to knit a bunch of gloves for all the children. She mysteriously places the mittens on the tree near their bus stop early every morning. No one knows where they come from but someone must because she keeps receiving baskets of yarn on her doorstep. Sarah is not lonely anymore.
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53537808 to: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Paperback) by Judith Viorst
bookshelves: lled-catalog
Illustrator: Ray Cruz
Publisher: Aladdin
Date of Publishing: 1987

Genre: Fictional Humor
Reading Level: age 4-9
Theme: child behavior, frustration, character development, hope

Curricula Use: teach children about behavior
teach as a read aloud
Social Issues: Emotions

Text & Pictures: the pictures depict the story and opens up more for the audience
Summary: Alexander wakes up and has one of the worst days ever. Everything that can happen to him, does happen! In the end, he realizes that things aren't always as bad as they may seem. He also learns that sometimes you just have days where nothing goes your way! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53537726 to: Wabi Sabi (Hardcover) by Mark Reibstein
bookshelves: lled-catalog
Illustrator: Mark Reibstein
Publisher: Little Brown Young Readers
Date of Publication: 2008

Genre: Fiction picture book, Animal character
Reading Level: age 4-8
Theme: Identity, personification


Curricula Use: teach children in independent reading situation
teach as a read aloud
Social Issues: Japanese Cultural Insight

Text & Pictures: the illustrations in this book are phenomenal. The pictures help to tell the story.
Summary: Wabi Sabi is a Japanese cat that wants to find out the meaning of her name. She wanders around to anyone she can find to give her the meaning and they tell her its too hard to explain. She eventually finds out that her name means beautiful and ordinary. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47212127 to: The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsch) by Robert N. Munsch
bookshelves: lled-catalog
Illustrator: Michael Martchenko
Publisher: Annick Press
Date of Publishing: 1992

Genre: picture books, fairy tales
Reading Level: K-4th grade
Theme: female empowerment, gender roles, personification, prince & princesses.

Curricula Use: to teach children about gender roles
to use as a read aloud
Social Issues: poverty, wealth

Text & Pictures: The illustrations fit the text. They agree with each other.
Summary: A princess is going to marry a prince but a dragon kidnaps him and takes away all her money and clothing. She is left wearing a paper bag. The princess then out wits the dragon to save her prince. The prince does not approve of her attire so in the end, she refuses to marry him. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53849982 to: Scholastic Book Guides: The Hundred Dresses (Scholastic Book Guides) by Scholastic Inc.
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53849974 to: A Guide for Using The Hundred Dresses in the Classroom (Paperback) by Cheryl Russell
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53848861 to: Guess How Much I Love You (Board book) by Sam McBratney
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53848460 to: Fox in Socks (Paperback) by Dr. Seuss
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