September 2, 2015 - Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jane Dyer
September 9, 2015 - Colorado Children's Book Award -  use powerpoint from CCIRA/CCBA 2015
September 24, 2015 - Books about Unusual Pets

C D B! by William Steig
Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo - Take Away the A and Where's the Baboon?
Four Minute multiple reading of Mysterious Thelonious with photographs by ​Readers' Theatre Project from the Children's Museum of Los Angeles
The above is not the version used in class as we'll use the book.
September 30, 2015 - Bird & Diz - A Few Favorite Word Play Books 
October 7, 2015 - Jeffery Bennett and Space Education & Molly Bang
I Scream Ice Cream! A Book of Wordles by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Serge Bloch
Pets in Trumpets and other word-play riddles by Bernard Most
October 14 - Jeff Kinney & Reina Telgemeier Fun, Rob Gonsalves Art in Imagine A Day, Night, Place, and World, If time word play books
October 21, 2015 - Terry Border, and Saxton Freeman & Kadir Nelson If You Plant a Seed
Nov. 3, 2015 - Harry Bliss Grandma in Blue with Red hat, Jonah Winter - Lillian's Right to Vote - Biographies - Frida - Thanks to Josiah for Washington Landmark Link
Nov. 11, 2015 - Veteran's Day - Military - Poems in the Attic - Nikki Grimes - H is for Honor 
Nov. 18, 2015 - Favorite Thanksgiving Books and their authors and illustrators
December 2, 2015 - Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh & Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
December 9, 2015 - Chanukah - ​Potato Pancakes All Around
January 6, 2016 - Shannon Hale and ​Ever After High
January 13, 2016 - Start on Banners for CCIRA - Mention ALA Youth media Awards
January 20, 2016 -  Cut out banner pieces - extra time read Last Stop on Market Street - Newbery Medal
January 27, 2016 -  This House Needs a Mouse Banner pieces
Loren Long - little tree,  Thomas Locker - ​Sky Tree  extra time read ALA winners
February 3, 2016 - Show Banners - A few new books as possible nominees for 2017
Pick up Rapunzel's Revenge if still there 
February 10, 2016 - Show & return Banners - CCBA picture books

February 24, 2016 - Vote for CCBA and select nominations
March 2, 2016 - Read Across America - Dr. Seuss Birthday
March 9, 2016 -  Woman's History Month
March 16, 2016 - A few 2017 CCBA picture book nominations - Have a great St. Patrick's Day
April 6, 2016 - Michael Hall - Picture Perfect
April 13, 2016 - Poetry of Bob Raczka, Douglas Florian, and Marilyn Singer
April 20, 2016 - Poem in Your Pocket - write poems on pocket paper
Shel Silverstein - Bruce Laskey - Jack Prelutsky - 
April 27, 2016 -Peter Brown - Mr. Tiger Goes Wild - My Teacher is a Monster - Curious Garden - The Wild Robot - Creepy Carrots
 May 4, 2016 - Molly Idle - Mother's Day - Doreen Cronin - Mom: An Operating Manual 
May 11, 2016 - ​Philip Stead - Ryan T. Higgins- Sarah Weeks  - Melanie Watt  
May 18, 2016 - Summer Reading and Continuation Books
September 2, 2015 - Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
May 20, 2015 - Idioms and Off into the Future
May 13, 2015 - Chris Raschka

April 29, 2015 - Poem in Your Pocket
April 22, 2015 - Poetry
April 8, 2015
Collaborations between Tom and Amy as well as other books by them.
March 25, 2015 - Michael Hall
Michael Hall is a graphic designer who lives in Minnesota.  
March 18, 2015 - Children's Choice Book Awards - 
March 11, 2015 - Read Across America - Dr. Seuss

March 4, 2015 - Similes and Metaphors - Owl Moon

February 25, 2015 - Vote for CCBA and Nominate for 2016

The above is a link to a 15 minute audio story from Canadian Broadcasting on Oct. 9, 2014.  Interviewed are Kathy Stinson and Joshua Bell.
February 18, 2015
CCBA picture books to prepare to vote next week
That is Not a Good Idea  
February 11, 2015- 

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award & Caldecott Honor Book -    The Right Word by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
Seibert Honor Book - Separate is Never Equal 
Schneider Family Book Award - A Boy and a Jaguar
Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award honoring a Latino writer and illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience - Viva Frida - Yuyi Morales
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award: Firebird  ,   Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, “Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker     
February 4 - Caldecott and Geisel Winners
The Adventures of Beekle:  The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat
You Are (Not) Small by Anna Kang, illustrated by Christopher Weyant
Waiting is Not Easy! by Mo Willems
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January 21, 2015 - Banner work

January 7, 2015 - New Year's Resoultions

December 3, 2014 - Word Play in Books and Alphabet Books

November 19, 2014 - Thanksgiving favorites
November 17, 2014 - The Arts - Dancing, Drawing, & Painting

November 5, 2014 - Picture Book Month 2014 - Books Celebrating Art or Artists

October 29, 2014 - Monster Chefs by Brian and Liam Anderson -  
 Peter Brown - Mr. Tiger Goes Wild - My Teacher is a Monster - Curious Garden - 
October 22, 2014 - Book with No Pictures and Laura Vaccaro Seeger
October 15, 2014 - Mr. Wuffles
October 8, 2014 - Jacqueline Woodson
October 1, 2014 - Olive Jeffers
September 17, 2014 - Saxton Freymann  
September, 2014 - Peter H. Reynolds
Trailer and ABOVE & BEYOND, the animated film that inspired it all, created by FableVision Studios in collaboration with The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.