1. The Best New Children’s Literature to Engage Readers
August 1, 2018

2. Favorite Authors/ Illustrators
Teaching books.net pronounce Mike Curato
What if - A pledge to creativity! Show teachingbooks.net pronounce Mike Curato – Show book case for All The Way to Havanah
Princess and the Pit Stop – Great for older kids who know all the traditional tales given a nod –
ABCDE - Mo Willems hysterical alphabet about a monster who overeats. Preschool and parents laugh out loud.

3. Picture Books with messages to make your heart Sing
Big Umbrella – Illustrations are lovely Amy June Bates and her daughter wrote after walking to school in the rain. Inclusiveness
Drawn Together
You Tube read aloud by the Dorcester Public Library in South Carolina 3 minutes

6. Dan Santat is a genius

7. Professional Books
Hopefully some of you heard Ellin Oliver Keene last spring. I have not quite finished Engaging Children, but I considered trying to organize this presentation based on the 4 pllars of engagement as explained by Ellin in this amazing book which ended up being 4 of the chapters in the book – Intellectual Urgency, Emotional Resonance, Perspective bending, and The aesthetic world. As a former “lecturer” professor the professionalism and theory made me love Engaging children. I included the best books print edition although it makes more sense to go to the online version.
Ages 5-9 pdf

8. Beginning of school picture book read alouds
Alma - teacher’s guide and explore family history and naming conventions –
Twig – Goes through

9. Picture Book Hello
Hello Hello – Amazing endpapers – Don’t miss the author’s note – Older kids lead in to research – may find the one animal to encourage their engagement –
Hello Lighthouse – pair with Jan Brett’s Comet’s Nine Lives Sophie Blackall’s beautiful illustrations. She already won Caldecott for Winnie

10. Read Write Talk Play Sing
Early literacy activities
How to be a Lion – June 26, 2018 – pair with Ferdinand – Lion not fierce but learns to be himself! F&G’s
Say Zoop! - Think this interactive book can also be used with older kids to learn speaking (reading) with expression – FUN!
People Don’t Bite People – biting is for food
CLEL Bell Activity sheet for Say Zoop (Talk)
In Dec shortlists will be posted for 2019 award

11. Emily Arrow
If you teach preschool or Kindergarten. I’ve actually even shared a couple with my 5th graders for books I really love.
Narwhal is the graphic novel series
This was also a way for me to get Peter H. Reynolds in this year.
Emily Arrow 3'12" song for I Am Peace on her YouTube Channel

12. Peter H. Reynolds

13. Very Primary books about kindness
I Walk - The ADL helped with a section for childre: How You can Help someone who is being bullied and For Adults: Some Helpful Words to Use when talking about the book (aggressor, ally, brave, bullying, bystander, name-calling, target, and teasing – French authors -

14. Traditional Literature with Spanish
Adam Rubin was inspired to write this unique bilingual format in honor of his grandmother who was a courtroom translator. Sometimes you need to read the jacket to find out the most about a book.

15. Unique bilingual inspired by Adam Rubin’s “Cuban grandmother, who was a courtroom translator for thirty years, inspired him to write this. A note from author Adam Rubin:
"I decided to tell this story in an unusual way to explore the beauty of harmony. It's easy to dismiss the unfamiliar, but compassion takes a little more effort. With so many people trumpeting divisiveness right now, it's more important than ever to teach kids that there is more than one way to understand the world."

17. Broomfield Library Resources
Chapter Books for Beginning Readers
Broomfieldlibrary.org-> Children’s Library-> Recommended Reads
Amy Ann, a quiet 4th grader who loves to read is upset when her favorite book is no longer in the library, so she ends up starting a Banned books locker library and works to get the books back into their school library.
Broomfieldlibrary.orgchildren’s library Recommended Reads

18. Graphic
Brogsol – For kids who love Jameson (Roller Girls) , Telgemeir (Sisiters), Hale (Real Friends) Memoir of summer camp
All’s Faire is summer story of girl who has grown up being home schooled by family that works and lives at the Renaissance Faire – she will be going to 5th grade in the fall
Cardboard Kingdom – Stories by 10 artists of a group of 16 kids and their summer of immaginative play.

19. Primary Graphic
Dog Man and Cat Kid – Do I really need to say anything about Dav Pilkey – Did anyone get to see him early in the summer when he came to the old Elitch Theater? - Forward to From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers by Stephanie Harvey & Annie Ward
Baby Monkey Private Eye – Amazing and kids love it even though they do not get all the references that their teachers, parents, and older students get
Bad Guys – CCBA nominee

20. Oct 1-Nov
Author Study:
Early Grades: A Boy Called Bat, Elana K. Arnold
Middles Grades: Amal Unbound, Sara Pennypacker
Middle School: Refugee, Alan Gratz
Young Adult: Love Hate & Other Filters, Samira Ahmed
Boy called BAT -

21. GRA Picture Book Author/Illustrator Julie Flett & Monique Grey Smith
All Books are in English combined with Cree – Vancouver Native (Indiginous – First Peoples)

22. 2018 Caldecott, Newbery, Geisel

23. Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards
Link to teachingbooks.net pronunciation of Yuyi
printable poster of BGHB 50 years from 2017

24. Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards Picture Books
Pair with Hailstones & Halibut Bones, Research colors & light/refraction etc.
When’s my birthday – Love both Illustrations and text – really captures that 4 – 5 – or 6 year old feeling.
A different pond – Also Caldecott Honor immigrant memoir of Bao Phi going fishing with his father after immigrating to Minnesota.

25. Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards Fiction Books
Parker Inheritance -

26. Boston Globe Horn Book - Nonfiction
Photographic: The Life of Graciella Iturbide -
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives – Amazing journalistic novel (telling) of 2013 event in Oakland. I think it will help me with language and I will feel more comfortable and hopefully more accepting.
Hundred Billion Trillion Stars

27. Fan Brothers Illustrations
Antlered ship – 2019 CCBA Nominee – Friendship
Ocean Meets Sky -

28. Pernille Ripp Chapter book favorites:
Picture book favorites:

29. Two of Pernille’s Best of 2018 So Far
Who Are You - Kids guide to gender which will give adults what they need to discuss this difficult topic.
Small things – Great Start for dealing with Childhood Anxiety.

30. Two of Betsy Bird’s Best 2018 so far
Julian is a Mermaid – Example of a few new books about boys identifying with non-conforming ideals of gender identity and beauty – others are Sparkle Boy and I Love My Purse Moris Micklewhite, Big Bob Little Bob, Williams Doll
Rabbit Listened – Tender exploration of grief and loss and great reminder of power of listening

31. Fantasy
Granted and Cruel Prince are both books about fairies. Holly Blacks is, in my mind, middle school up
Granted will appeal to kids who have moved beyond the Disney Fairies series
Bob – Loved this fantasy – think it will make a great family read or listen when in the car.
Wild Robot Escapes – Roz finds herself in a farm and really is a capable hand.
Unicorn Rescue Society – First book is set in New Jersey – Elliot & Uchenna are on a field trip
To the Pine Barrens and bring home a creature.

32. Poetry
Best design – jacket design, author’s notes, dedication, pagination, index, and acknowledgment. Humor reminiscent of Prelutsky and Silverstein Monica Edinger read to 4th or 5th a few poems every morning.
Crescent Moons –
Can I touch your Hair? – Amazing Writing partners in conversations and poetry about race. Great vehicle for families or classes to talk about race.
Out of wonder is actually last year, but I have an autographed one to give away.

33. Poetry honoring black boys
13 ways – 13 Tanka poems (31 syllables distributed among 5 lines

34. Contemporary Realistic Fiction
You Go First – story of friends who meet and only have a relationship due to their playing of on-line scrabble -
Mason Buttle – Mason is the biggest – sweatiest kid who has suffered a grief that may tie into his learning disabilities. Wonder teacher is portrayed and the story has a lot to talk about.
Lightning Girl – Lucy is struck by lightning at age 8 and becomes an acquired savant – math genius. She has been homeschooled and is now being thrown into a conventional 7th grade.
Breakout - Incredible format of a fictionalized account of an event when inmates escape a prison throwing a community into disarray. Lots to talk about indluding judicial system, social justice, and race relations.

35. Historical Fiction
Front Desk - Set in Anaheim, CA in 80’s this has some elements of memoir of Kelly Yang’s experience as an immigrant.
Night Diary – Written in the form of 12 year old Nisha’s letters to her mother (who died giving birth to her and her twin). Follows as she becomes an immigrant during the 1947 partitian of India and Pakistan
Journey – Difficult read as it is written in dialect, but great to listen to audio book. - Monica Edinger – my favorite reviewer. Story of child of sharecroppers who in order to work off his families debt is sent with Capn Buck to capture some previously enslaved people. Set just after the civil war.

36. Anthologies/Story Collections/Sports
Creativity Project March 13, prompts and responses by 44 of my favorite authors
Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports February

37. Middle Grade versions of Adult Books

38. Two Favorite Authors!
Ghost Boys -

39. Novels in verse
Margarita is the Young People’s Poet Laureate. Jazz Owls is a historical fiction story of the 1943 Zoot Suite Riots.
Rebound is the prequal to

40. Picture Book Biography
She persisted around the world – Book Birthday

41. Biography Series Whohq.com - Netflix Series

42. Informational Text
Wanted to share at least one of the National Geographic Kids books because sometimes classroom libraries overlook them. Melissa Stewart is author of both it and Colorado Book Award winner with Steve Jenkins illustrations – Can an Aardvark Bark? -

43. Colorado Book Award – Selected by Adults and other Steve Jenkins
Melissa Stewart is author of both it and Colorado Book Award winner with Steve Jenkins illustrations – Can an Aardvark Bark? -

44. Colorado Children’s Book Awards
2018
Winners
Runner up
Runner up

45. 2019 Nominated Books Traditional Literature Fractured
After the Fall – Humpty Dumpty Life begins when you get back up again! “The Egg who got back up and learned how to fly”
Princesa and the Pea – Love how Susan Middleton Elya intersperses Spanish and rhyme in these.
After the Fall Trailer in YouTube

46. How to write a wordless book!
5 minute Colby Sharp Interview Ryan T. Higgins (for teachers)

47. After Creepy Carrots
30 sec Trailer from Little Simon Books

48. 2 min. Trailer for Dad and the Dinosaur by Penguin

49. 4 min. read aloud of Leave Me Alone by Lee RebelTech

50. One minute trailer by Penguin on YouTube

51. LOVE - LIFE 4 min interview/trailer from Penguin on YouTube
2018 Mock Caldecott – each picture tells it’s own total story. Move over “Oh the Places You’ll Go”, Study and write dialogue for the story from each illustration.
Boulder Public Library – sponsored by Boulder Bookstore – Monday 2/12 6:00
why-we-shouldnt-shield-children-from-darkness - Matt De La Pena Time, 1/9/2018

53. One Min. Pig the pug trailer by Scholastic Bookfair
3 minute Aaron Blabey Read Aloud by Schalastic on YouTube

54. Friendship
Antlered Ship – Great to teach steps to make friends: 1. eat together 2. have adventures 3. ask questions (my addition: listen to the answers)
Baabwaa and Woolian: A Tale of Literacy, Dental Hygiene, and Friendship – Kids need to know wolf in sheeps clothing, Fun and humorous read aloud
Six minute YouTube with Dashka Slater "How to Make An Antlered Ship"

55. One min. Legend of Rock Paper Scissors Trailer by HarperKids on YouTube

57. 2 min. Scholastic Bookfair Trailer in SafeShare

58. Walden Media Educator’s guide
Can’t get the link to work in a powerpoint so either do a google search:” Ms. Bixby’s Last Day Discussion Questions” or type in the link
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Ms. Bixby Educators Guide

59. 2 min Scholastic Bookfair Video

60. 2 min. Gordon Korman introduces Restart Scholastic Bookfair Trailer

61. Max Brallier video preorder offer from last year - Just a chance to see him - 1 min. YouTube

62. 2 minute Scholastic Bookfair Trailer introduced by the Author

63. 1 min. Scholastic Bookfair Trailer

64. Wish discussion guide
Barbara O'Connor Website with 1 minute introduction to Wish

65. Wishtree trailer from Macmillan 3 min. on YouTube
Wishtreebook.com

66. Land of stories Party Kit Download from thelandofstories.com

67. 2020 Nomination Guidelines
Copyright 2015 – 2020
One title per author, not last year’s winners
Book prior to any other format (production)
# of schools before # of nominations
Each school can submit up to 20 titles when they vote before March 2, 2018
Children may vote for 1 PB and 1 JB if they have read or hear at least 3 in the category

68. Find Guidelines at vote at CCIRA
Find Guidelines at vote at CCIRA.org-->Awards-->Colorado Children's Book Award
Nominated books must be currently in print and published in the five years preceding the award year.
Only one title per author will be included in each year's ballot.
Last year's WINNING authors are not eligible this year.
Books previously nominated are not eligible for nomination in following years.
A book title nominated by more that one school or library will be considered more heavily for inclusion in the final list.
Books based on movies or television shows are not eligible for nominations unless the book preceded the movie or television production.
The author of a nominated book must be a living author.
Caldecott and Newbery Award books are not eligible. Honor books are eligible.
Once a book in a series has won, all other books in that series by that author will not be eligible for nomination.
Children may vote for one picture book and one junior book provided they have read a minimum of three books in each category.
Send the top 20 BOOK TITLES NOMINATED by children with the TOTAL nominations for each book to the CCBA Committee by March 1, 2017.
PLEASE be sure to put the number of students who nominated the book.

69. Have a great start To the school year!
Download this slide show and other resources for CCBA at
Have a great start
To the school year!