Monday, May 14, 2012

In-class essay: Favorite Picture Book

In an essay of 5 paragraphs or more, please explain your favorite picture book we read as a class this year and why it was your favorite. Possible structure for your essay:

1) Intro paragraph
2) The writing
3) The illustrations
4) The read-aloud experience (i.e., what it was like to experience the story with your classmates)
5) Concluding paragraph

Your options are:
Zorro Gets an Outfit by Carter Goodrich
Guess Again! by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Adam Rex
Boy + Bot by Ame Dyckman, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino
Brothers at Bat by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Steven Salerno
She Loved Baseball by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Don Tate
Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Daniel Jennewein
Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Daniel Jennewein
So You Want to Be a Rock Star by Audrey Vernick, illustrated by Kristie Edmunds
The Dirty Cowboy by Amy Timberlake, illustrated by Adam Rex
My Friend is Sad by Mo Willems
Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems
We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems
It's a Book by Lane Smith
The Day Glo Brothers by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani
Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Chopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Scott Magoon
Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Leonard Jenkins
Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Adam Rex
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle by Brian Dennis
Earth to Clunk by Pam Smallcomb, illustrated by Joe Berger
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On by Jenny Slate, illustrated by Dean Fleischer-Camp
The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Renata Liwska
The Loud Book by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Renata Liwska
The Incredible Life of Balto by Meghan McCarthy
This Plus That: Life's Equations by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Jen Corace
Subway Story by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Prudence Wants a Pet by Cathleen Daly
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
Charlie the Ranch Dog by Ree Drummond, illustrated by Diane DeGroat
Someday by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
One by Kathryn Otoshi

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