Elementary Library

fables that include characters, plot, setting, and morals. Students will identify the elements of story in tall tales. Students will create tall tale characters that include setting, and hyperbole. Students will use adjectives in descriptive writing. Students will identify how food is part of culture and identity. Students will respect other ideas, opinions, and cultures. Students will identify elements of graphic novel storytelling. Students will write and illustrate a graphic novel panel using identified elements.

RESOURCES Selection of Beehive Book Award nominees Picture Books ●​ Selection from the Beehive Book Award Nominees (all categories) ●​ Selection from current year ALA Award winners (Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpre, Schneider, etc) ●​ The Yellow Bus by Loren Long ●​ Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo McClear ●​ Big by Vashti Harrison ●​ The Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed ●​ Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang ●​ 100 MIghty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle ●​ Sakamoto’s Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory by Julie Abery ●​ Ten Beautiful Things by Molly Beth Griffin ●​ The Remember Balloons ●​ Click Clack Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin ●​ Zap! Clap! Boom! The Story of a Thunderstorm by Laura Purdie Salas ●​ Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London ●​ Muncha Muncha Muncha by Candace Fleming ●​ Everybody in the Red Brick Building by Anne Wynter ●​ Listen by Gaby Snyder ●​ Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemie ●​ Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper ●​ Love by Matt de la Pena ●​ I Am A Tornado by Drew Beckmeyer ●​ Tar Beach by Faith Ringold ●​ Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompson-Bigelow ●​ Dear Librarian by Lydia Sigwarth ●​ The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce ●​ Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier ●​ The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak ●​ How to Eat a Book by Mr. & Mrs. Macleod ●​ Definitely Do Not Open This Book by Andy Lee ●​ The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker

Nonfiction ●​ Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet by Geo Rutherford ●​ Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle ●​ The Iguanadon’s Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put A Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again…and Again by Sean Rubin ●​ Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems ●​ Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children by Jan Pinborough ●​ Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Story-teller Pura Belpre by Anika Aldamuy Denise ●​ Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller by Breanna J. McDaniel ●​ The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeannette Winter ●​ Balderdash! John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books by Michelle Markel ●​ Tomfoolery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children’s Books by Michelle Markel ●​ Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge ●​ A Girl Can Build Anything by E. Charlton-Trujillo ●​ The Mellon’s Build an Eco House by Robin Jacobs ●​ Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler

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