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Jen’s Top Picksspring 2015
jhong@vsb.bc.ca strathconalibraryblog.wordpress.com
The Best Part of MeWendy Ewald
Black and white photographs accompany children’s writing about their favourite body parts.
Perfect for a writing prompt, or photography/writing activity. Used stills in iMoive with voice over.
Press HereHerve Tulle
Hilarious, interactive book. French and English.
The Fly, The Slug, The Rat, Head Lice, The Worm, The SpiderElise Gravel
Information storybooks. Funny and full of facts. Also translated to French.
StuckOliver Jeffers
All books by Oliver Jeffers are awesome. I love This Moose Belongs to Me, Heart in a Bottle, Book Eating Boy.
I Want My Hat BackJon Klassen
Hilarious.
Flora and The FlamingoMolly Idle
Gorgeous wordless flap book. Also Flora and The Penguin.
The Cat, The Dog, Little Red, The Exploding Eggs, The Wolf and GrandmaDiane and Christyn Fox
Fabulous fractured fairy tale. The story, a narrator, and an interrupting audience member. Would make a decent partner read or reader’s theatre.
Oi Frog!Kes Gray & Jim Field
Hilarious, rhyming story. Word families.
I Know HereLaurel Crozer
Poetic memoir of place/home.
The Giving Tree: a Retelling of a Traditional Metis StoryLeah Dorian
Lovely family story of a tree that illustrates core values. In Michif and English.
Raven Brings the LightRoy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd
Traditional westcoast legend that tells explains how many things came to be.
Little Bear’s Vision QuestDiane Silvey
Little Bear is rude to his friends and is sent to an isolated island to learn about himself.
The Beetle BookSteve Jenkins
All of artist Steve Jenkins nonfiction books are excellent.
Over and Under the SnowKate Messner
Information storybook of animals in the wintertime.
Wild BerriesJulie Flett
All books by local Metis author/illustrator are excellent. Some are dual language English/Cree or English/Michif or French/Michif.
How ToJulie Morstad
Local author and illustrator. Writing prompt, art project.
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