{"id":1990,"date":"2019-06-02T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:54:03","slug":"classic-and-other-picture-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2019\/06\/02\/classic-and-other-picture-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic and Other Picture Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2032\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/IMG_2589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/IMG_2589.jpg 450w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/IMG_2589-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Sno-Isle, the local library system, has produced a pamphlet, <em>Countdown to Kindergarten: 100 Essential Picture Books<\/em> that&#8217;s a starting place for great picture books to share with kids from age 3 to 10. Yep. I said 10. I read picture books to third graders and they love them. We use them as idea starters to enhance their independent writing time.\u00a0 Here are a few of my favorites from the library pamphlet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman<\/li>\n<li>The Days the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywait<\/li>\n<li>Dont&#8217; Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems<\/li>\n<li>If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff<\/li>\n<li>The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats<\/li>\n<li>Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These others I enjoy reading in the classroom; many are decades old but still enjoyed by kids:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Moon Jump by Paula Brown<\/li>\n<li>The Last King of Angkor Wat by Grame Base<\/li>\n<li>Tacky (several books) by Helen Lester<\/li>\n<li>Agatha&#8217;s Feather Bed: Not Just Snother Wold Goose Story by Carmen\u00a0\u00a0 Agrea Deedy<\/li>\n<li>Stars byMary Lyn Ray and Marla Frazee<\/li>\n<li>Ted by Tony DiTerlizzi<\/li>\n<li>The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein<\/li>\n<li>Round Trip by Ann Jonas<\/li>\n<li>Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall<\/li>\n<li>Wing-A-Ding by Lyn Littlefield Hoopes<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping Cinderella and Other Princess Mix-ups<\/li>\n<li>Jack Prelutsky poetry books for kids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy! Picture books are fun for kids <em>and<\/em> grown-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sno-Isle, the local library system, has produced a pamphlet, Countdown to Kindergarten: 100 Essential Picture Books that&#8217;s a starting place for great picture books to share with kids from age 3 to 10. Yep. I said 10. I read picture books to third graders and they love them. We use them as idea starters to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2019\/06\/02\/classic-and-other-picture-books\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334,301,21,24,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-classroom-tips","category-family","category-ideas-websites","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}