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2024 November Reading Challenge
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Here are some of my favorites:Older Ones:
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
A Bag Full of Nothing by Jay Williams
The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone
Cinder Edna by Ellen Jackson
The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Ruth Sanderson
Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Mark Buehner
You Are Special by Max Lucado
Newer Ones:
Watercress by Andrea Wang
LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET: A Magical Journey Through the City: New Illustrated Version 2024 by Muhammad Adeel
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
Do Comic/Graphic Novel's count? If so, I loved any Calvin and Hobbes or For Better or For Worse collection.
i can definitely handle this one. i think I will try to chose one. that is at least "new to me".
I am glad at this time of year for an easy one.
I'm going to read Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Cinder Soule. It was my favorite book as a kid. :)
I read picture books to children almost every day, so I have already completed this one today. I read Dandelions by Eve Bunting with my daughter.
I read The Most Boring Book Ever which is Brandon Sanderson's new picture book. Picked this up the other day but managed to save it for this challenge.
Mary wrote: "I read picture books to children almost every day, so I have already completed this one today. I read Dandelions by Eve Bunting with my daughter."Oooh! Keep track and give us a weekly update! It would be so fun to see all that you read!
My 3-year-old daughter's current favorite book is Tyrannosaurus Wrecks!: A Preschool Story. So I've already read it multiple times this month. :)
I read one of the rare non-fiction Caldecott Medal winners, Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin ( Review ) as a nod to yesterday's snowfall.
I'm going to try to figure out how to listen to a picture book.
I chose to read the 2024 Caldecott winner
by Vashti Harrison.Great book on the power of words.
I also read with one of my students
by John RoccoThis is a fun version of The Boy Who Cried Wolf
I also read
Baboushka and the Three Kings and
Fry Bread: A Native American Family StoryI really liked the pictures in Fry Bread
Greg wrote: "I'm going to try to figure out how to listen to a picture book."The first time I read James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl it was as an audio book. Seriously. It was interesting but on my second reading of it, the physical book, I realized how very much you lose without the pictures. However, if you have read it as a physical book once, I can highly recommend the audio book! Never expected this response, did you?!!
Debbie wrote: "Greg wrote: "I'm going to try to figure out how to listen to a picture book."The first time I read James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl it was as an audio book. Serio..."
I was not expecting that response, no!
Mostly I was just being snarky because the original post said "read or listen to a picture book"
Debbie wrote: "Mary wrote: "I read picture books to children almost every day, so I have already completed this one today. I read Dandelions by Eve Bunting with my daughter."Oooh! Keep track and g..."
I didn't track all of the picture books that I read this week, but my daughter and I just read Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear. We both loved it!
One that the students in my elementary school library enjoyed this week was Walter Finds His Voice: The Story of a Shy Crocodile
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Greg, I wrote it that way, because we definitely have audiobooks of picture books! For example, you could listen to the picture book The Very Eric Carle Treasury as an audiobook on Libby. We also have a Read/Listen collection, where the books come with an integrated MP3 player.
It is doable!
Another thing most don't think about until it confronts them. Losing your eyesight. I met a lady who has macular degeneration. I helped her look something up on her phone. Reading is so hard, she explained, because macular degeneration progresses by blocking bits of your vision. Imagine having a tv and, randomly, a group of 50 pixels go dark somewhere on the screen. A week later another group of 50 go dark somewhere else on the screen but not near the first group. And every week some group of 50 somewhere. When it's your eyes and not a TV, you can see, you can read, BUT what's visible is so broken up it's hard to decipher. And, eventually, trying is just too wearing. I did not know that about macular degeneration.She was sad because her vision was so bad her Doctor told her she needed to start using a white cane. He had told her people would treat her more nicely, be more patient. She saw it, though, as a flag of weakness. And then something popped into my head. Something I'd not thought of. I told her the other thing the cane brought her, once she learned to use it well, was freedom. She could go anywhere she wanted. It's not a flag of weakness but a flag of strength! It's you holding it up and saying 'Look at me! I can walk anywhere I want! I have freedom!" As she left, she was smiling and she thanked me for the positive view.
Being a religious person, I have a belief where those ideas to tell her came from. They are ideas that had never crossed my mind even though I'd met and talked to, even helped people with white canes. (They don't work so well when snow obliterates the barrier between sidewalk and grass.) But I was grateful for the experience. And the perspective as I may one day be told by the Dr. that I need a white cane. I'll stand at the door of the grocery store, hold the cane over my head and in my best imitation of Mel Gibson cry out "Freedom!" And I'll still read picture books. ;-)
I read Unicorns Are the Worst! byAlex Willan with my granddaughter who loves unicorns. She wasn't sure about the title, but she loved the book. We had to read it several times.
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Make sure you pop in and let us know if you've finished reading a picture book this month!
I read Am I Different? by Johnathan Aubrey. It was illustrated by Ben Rowberry. The book tells about how the young author learned to ride his bike despite the challenges he faces with cerebral Palsy. He wrote the book to inspire and encourage children to have the courage to do hard things. I met Johnathan at a book signing at The Printed Garden Bookstore in Sandy, Utah and was impressed. it would be a good book to share with the young readers in your life.
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The Book with No Pictures
This is an EXCELLENT book to read aloud. As long as you're enthusiastic. :D
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I read my daughter Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems to my daughter. We all love Mo Willems at our house!
I read Fox is Coming by James Patterson and The Most Boring Book Ever by Brandon Sanderson. Enjoyed both!
Right before the election, I read ‘Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice’ by Nikki Grimes, and today I kicked off my holiday reading with ‘A City Full of Santas’ by Joanna Ho.
Do we have a new reading challenge for December?
I got to it late, but I still got to it. I read
The Day the Crayons Quit
by Drew Daywalt.9/9 for 2024
Can we please get the December challenge soon? Thanks so much! I look forward to this every month! <3
I totally forgot to do it! It was too easy, and I kept procrastinating.
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November is National Picture Book Month, so your challenge is to read or listen to a picture book! There is some amazing art out there, and some really fun books. So I hope you all find something great.
Here are a few of my favorites that are newer:
And here are some older ones that I adore:
Do you have favorites you want to share?