Amanda Shuler

EDUC 432
Annotated Bibliography

(1) Hoose, Phillip. Hoose, Hannah. Hey, Little Ant. Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press,
1998.
Suumary: A boy and an ant have a discussion about whether or not the boy
should squish the ant. They each give reasons from their own perspective about
whether to squish or not.
Genre: fiction
Age: 3-7 years (can be adapted for older students)
Mini-lessons:
persuasive writing
rhyming
bold print to emphasize
comma usage in poetry
using questions
teaching perspective

(2) Scieszka, John. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. New York: Viking Press, 1989.

Summary: This is the classic tale of the three little pigs told from the wolfs
perspective. It turns out that the wolf was framed, and he never meant to hurt
anyone.
Genre: fiction
Age: 5-8 years
Mini-Lessons:
use of italics
persuasive writing
effective use of questions
dialogue
imagery

(3) Kellogg, Steven. Can I Keep Him? Penguin Group, 1976.

Summary: A little boy keeps asking his mother if he can keep all types of animals
because he is lonely. She patiently explains why he cant have each one. He finally
finds a friend that he can keep.
Genre: fiction
Age: 4 and up
Mini-Lessons:

repetition
dialogue
persuasive writing
effective use of questions
imagery
word choice

(4) Viorst, Judith. Earrings! Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1993.
Summary: A girl wants to get her ears pierced and have lots of glorious earrings.
She turns down every other gift. She offers all sorts of reasons why she should
have them.
Genre: fiction
Age: 6-10 years
Mini-Lessons:
persuasive writing
quotation marks
capitalization for dramatic emphasis
sentence fragments
repetition

(5) Willems, Mo. Dont Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! New York: Hyperion Press,
2003.

Summary: A bus driver has to leave for a little while and puts you in charge. The
only thing that you need to remember is not to let the pigeon drive the bus. The
pigeon uses all types of persuasive techniques to try to get you to allow him to
drive the bus.

Genre: fiction
Age: 2-6 years (can be adapted for older students)
Mini-Lessons
persuasive writing
dialogue using speech bubbles
onomatopoeia
talking directly to the audience
reasoning

(6) Browne, Anthony. Voices in the Park. New York: DK Publishing, 2001.

Summary: The same story is told as experienced by four different characters.

They each tell it from their own perspectives. Each perspective sheds a very
different light on the same situation.
Genre: fiction
Age: 7-11 years
Mini-Lessons:
voice
perspective
comma usage
font change to show different perspectives
changing sentence structure to show character change
informal language

(7) Pulver, Robin. Punctuation Takes a Vacation. New York: Holiday House,
2004.
Summary: This is a story about a classroom where the class decides to take a
recess break away from punctuation. Then the punctuation decides to take a

vacation from the class. They send postcards to the students, and they have to
guess which punctuation mark sent the postcard. Students quickly realize how
difficult it is to read and write without punctuation.
Genre: fiction
Age: 6 and up
Mini-Lessons:
use of periods
use of quotation marks
use of commas
use of question marks
use of apostrophes
use of colons
use of exclamation points
importance of punctuation

(8) Spinelli, Eileen. Night Shift Daddy. New York: Disney-Hyperion, 2000.
Summary: A father helps his daughter get ready for bed using a familiar routine.
He goes to work while she sleeps, but is home by breakfast. Then after breakfast
she tucks him into bed using the same routine.

Genre: realistic fiction

Age: 4-7 years
Mini-Lessons:

repetition
comma usage
dialogue
sentence fragments
power of three
circle story

(9) Soto, Gary. Too Many Tamales. New York: Puffin Books, 1996
Summary: A little girl wanted to wear her mothers diamond ring. She kept it on
as she made tamales and then forgot about it. She later realized that it must be in
one of the tamales. She then had to tell her mother what she had done.

Genre: realistic fiction

Age: 4-8 years
Mini-Lessons:
simile
imagery
dialogue
usage of hyphens
comma usage
word choice

(10) Oatman High, Linda. The Girl on the High Diving Horse. New York: Philomel,
2003.
Summary: A little girl and her father go to Atlantic City so that her father can
take photographs of AC and the famous high-diving horses. The girl watches
everyday and eventually gets to dive with the horse.
Genre: historical fiction
Age: 5-10 years
Mini-Lessons:
alliteration
dialogue
word choice
imagery
shaping words to illustrate motion

(11) Oatman High, Linda. City of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888. Walker

Childrens, 2004.
Summary: A young girl tells the story of the Great Blizzard of 1888, a storm that
shut down the entire East Coast of the US. The girl talks of walking to Barnums
Circus, playing blizzard games with neighbors, and finally walking around
through the storm and seeing the city start to come back to life.
Genre: historical fiction
Age: 4-8
Mini-Lessons:
rhyming
word choice
onomatopoeia
similes
alliteration
repetition
free verse

(12) Duncan Edwards, Pamela. Boston Tea Party. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons,
2001.
Summary: This picture book tells the story of the Boston Tea Party. It begins with
the growing of the tea in England and adds a little more information about the
event on each page. Mice at the bottom of the pages give facts such as the names
of the taxes and important people.
Genre: narrative nonfiction

Age: 5-8 years

Mini-Lessons:
repetition
rhyming
similes
speech bubbles used to give specific facts
cumulative prose

(13) Lowell, Barbara. George Ferris: What a Wheel. New York: Grosset and
Dunlap, 2014.
Summary: George Ferris watches a waterwheel over and over as a child. Later in
life, he uses that idea to build a giant wheel that holds passengers. It was a huge
success!
Genre: narrative nonfiction
Age: 3-5 years
Mini-Lessons:
repetition
sentence fragments
similes
alliteration

 use of hyphens
captions
use of bullets to give facts

(14) Berenstain, Stan. Berenstain, Jan. The Berenstain Bears Go On Vacation. New
York: Harper Collins, 2006.
Summary: The Berenstain Bears go to the beach for a vacation. They enjoy all the
wonders of the seashore. They play on the shore, watch the sunrise, go
fishing, and much more.

Genre: fiction
Age: 4-8 years
Mini-Lessons:
rhyming
dialogue
alliteration
imagery
word choice
capitalization for dramatic emphasis
commas in a series
repetition

(15) Gay, Marie-Louise. Stella Queen of the Snow. Toronto: Groundwood Books,
2000.
Summary: Sam experiences his first snowstorm. He is very curious and asks his
big sister Stella lots of questions about snow. They spend the day enjoying all
types of snowy day activities.

Genre: fiction
Age: 2-5 years
Mini-Lessons:
dialogue
imagery
similes
alliteration
power of three