It’s officially FALL…. This week’s Bashful Book Bee recommendations are great books to share with children about the excitement of the season… With the cooler air the weather makes us all excited to anticipate the fun events we look forward to in October and November.  The changing of the leaves, the soft winds, we can feel the anticipation of our first fire in the fireplace.  I hope fall brings you joy.  Our selections of this week should provide you with great books to bring the fun of fall to your children. 

This week’s Bashful Book Bee “BEELOVED FEATURE book is:

 

How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow

by Wendell Minor

This book is a fun adventure using fourteen states, exploring many of their famous landmarks…while using various synonyms of the word BIG to describe the landmarks with size and scale words that are descriptive of the state. The pictures are colorful, the words are creatively fun.  This book will be great for descriptive writing and reading lessons, but a perfect book to use for building your newest fall social studies lesson.

 

Bashful Book Bee’s other weekly recommendations

1.    Wild Child by Lynn Plourde

…. A rhyming story of how Mother Earth’s wild child, Autumn,

bounces through the beautiful fall season.

2.    Will You Be My Friend? By Bernadette Watts

…Sweet little story around the traditional story of rebellious little rabbits going to the cabbage patch, to be saved from the cold by a gentle scarecrow.

3.    Miss Maple’s Seeds by Eliza Wheeler

….a gentle story of Miss Maple’s gathering, love and care of seeds from the fall, to provide new plants throughout the land next spring.

4.    Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage

…A counting book around all the traditional characters of Halloween.                                                                                                       

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Sept. 15 is International Dot day, so with that Bashful book bee's "Beeloved" book of the week is The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds.  While many may use this book as an Art lesson... I think in this story you will find much more.... courtesy, facing challenge, try and try again, never give up, do unto others.... Check it out I think you will find it's a must for every classroom.
Happy Reading...

1. The Monster who lost his mean by Tiffany Strelitz Habor

2.Caterina and the perfect party by Erin Eitter Kono

3. Charlie the ranch dog: Where's the Bacon by Ree Drummond, and Diane deGroat

4. A hole in the bottom of the sea by Jessica Law

YOO HOO Katie Woo

 

This week’s Bashful Book Bee’s "Beeloved book" of the week is a SERIES of books…

If you haven’t heard of Katie Woo, YOU must check her out~ Her very own Facebook page describes her as a spunky, sassy, and stylish school girl that readers will fall in love with!  Bashful Book Bee agrees.  Katie’s author, Fran Manushkin, has done a wonderful job with her series of books that now exceeds 25.  However, what I’m sharing today is her newest series Katie Woo “Star Writer.” This great series not only encourages students in writing…Katie also gives her reader’s writing tips.  Each book addresses a specific type of writing.  Katie describes the process and how to develop the content. Every language arts teacher can benefit from the skills that have helped Katie become a great writer.

Star Writer Series:

1.    It Doesn’t Need To Rhyme, Katie…Writing a Poem with Katie Woo

 

2.    Sincerely, Katie…Writing a letter with Katie Woo

3.    Stick to the Facts, Katie…Writing a Research Paper with Katie Woo

4.    What Do You Think, Katie?...Writing an opinion piece with Katie Woo

5.    What Happens Next, Katie…Writing a narrative with Katie Woo

6.    What’s in Your Heart, Katie?....Writing in a journal with Katie Woo

 

I hope when you use the Katie Woo books to teach children about writing, that this Star Writer Katie makes an unforgettable impression of these writing traits in your children.

 

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This week’s Bashful Book Bee’s “BEELOVED” Book of the week is picked as a memorial to my brother.  Our book of the week is Rabbityness by Jo Empson.  This book is being recommended by several book review sources as a great book for helping children deal with death…. But after sharing it with 28 classes, only 2 children thought our star rabbit of the story had died.  We used this book as a creative way to think of all the places our rabbit could have gone.  The book is full of color, fun, joy, and inspiration.  For many who knew my brother, they know he was always about fun. I hope you will get this book for your classrooms or libraries…. It is a must read…

 

My other books are recommendations that also bring me memories of my brother.

1.    Williams Doll by Charlotte Zolotow is a story about a little boy who wanted a doll. While the boy’s father kept trying to interest him in “boy” toys…footballs or trains, the story shows how boys who have dolls learn to love their babies. As a boy with three sisters my brother had a doll and, while he grew up to be a “manly man”, he was a great daddy.

2.    Go Dog Go by Dr. Seuss was a book that only our family knows the fun memory’s associated with my brother’s library book “Go Dog Go”.  Readers can never go wrong with Dr. Seuss

3.    Hank the Cowdog by John Erickson is the best series for youngsters who have a love of ranch life.  My brother always loved being on the ranch.

4.    Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp by Scott Nash would be a great book my brother would have loved.  The Dinosaur group gets together every Sat. night for a great time of fun and dancing… and oh how my brother loved to dance….

 

“Dance as though no one is watching you, Love as though you have never been hurt before,
Sing as though no one can hear you, Live as though heaven is on earth.” …Souza