Jon Scieszka – Cannonball Read 17

Dr. Seuss et al

Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka

Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog by Mo Willems

The Duckling Gets a Cookie? by Mo Willems

This is not my Hat by Jon Klassen

The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka

Boys Will Be Boys by James Patterson

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

May 16, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I recently asked my high school seniors what were some of their favorite book when they were younger. These are 18 year olds now, so mostly born in 2005, and while there were some older classics in the mix like Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, most of the answers were books I had never heard of before. So I went to the library and checked some of them out to see what they had enjoyed. While there, I checked out a few other […]

“But what do I know? I’ve only been around 4.5 billion years or so.”

AstroNuts Mission One: the Plant Planet by Jon Scieszka, Steven Weinberg

October 1, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

cbr11bingo – Birthday! Earth is now on the brink of being inhabitable, and she’s got no bones to pick about telling us why. Luckily, as she reveals to us in her narration of AstroNuts, NNASA (Not the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has been planning for just such an event, secretly creating four super-space soldier animal hybrids in their secret laboratory under Mount Rushmore. Blasting off in Thomas Jefferson’s Nose Rocket, AstroWolf, LaserShark, SmartHawk, and StinkBug launch their mission of finding an unoccupied Earth-like planet […]

Tell the truth!!!

Tell the Truth, BB Wolf. by Judy Sierra

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

September 20, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So this week I was working on instruction/assignment with twelfth grade English students…this is a mix of special ed and general ed students (as opposed to AP,Dual Enrollment, or Honors). We read and watched four different versions of the Three Little Pigs in order to try out some of the more probing literary analysis questions needed for breaking down texts into their different parts, and working toward figuring out how much interpretation we need to be doing as readers. This is an introductory activity and […]

Disney said it best: “What makes a Monster and what makes a Man?” (or in this case hero and villain)

Guys Read: Heroes and Villains by Jon Scieszka

February 18, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This series rocks! READ THEM! You need more? (sigh) Okay…… Guys Reads started around 10 years ago with Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys’ Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys. Jon Scieszka, however, is no stranger to getting boys to read. His Time Warp Trio series was his way of writing for the boys in his classroom who did not have anything to read. Flash forward a few years and Scieszka is knows for many picture books and novels, including the Guys Read series. I […]

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