Socks for Christmas

Socks For Christmas  by Andy Andrews

Is Bashfullbookbee's book of the week.

A few years back, I was a young mother of two.  I was just like all parents I wanted to give my children everything possible.  I wonder where that desire comes from.  As I've seen posted several times on Facebook, the older we get the shorter our Christmas wish lists get.  I wish now I had not been the kind of person who, sometimes at the serious mismanagement of our household finances, had not strived for so many material things.  I hope parents who see this blog will check out this book.  I even found one young man reading it on YouTube.  I wish young parents didn't feel that had to shower their children with Christmas gifts, as I often did.   This story is about a young man who was disgruntled and unappreciative of the Christmas gifts he got.  Like so many of us, he wished for "something" he didn't get.  However, the story goes on...the young boy realizes his Christmas was much better than another child's just down the street.  The story is full of heart, appreciation, and giving.  The young boy learns true joy comes from giving.  I hope Bashfullbookbee readers will read this sweet book this Christmas~

BashfulBookbee gives this book....

   

Merry Christmas

Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents, and grandparents.

Twas the Night Before Christmas

This week’s blog is about “The Night Before Christmas”

and the rest of the story…

My favorite is the recent publishing of Mary Engelbreit's...

But this is no new story.....The story was believed to be written by Clement Clarke Moore for his children titled

“A Visit from St. Nicholas” in 1822. As a scholar, he is said to have been embarrassed by the light-hearted holiday poem. Historians also believe a family friend, Miss Harriet Butler, learned of the poem sometime later from Moore's children. She submitted this iconic children’s poet anonymously and it was then published in the Troy Sentinel in 1823.  Moore did not publish the poem under his name until 1844.

My research couldn't come up with a count of publishings of this classic poem…. But one thing I do know is it has been around nearly 200 years. Many authors have also taken his creative poem and created their own parody following the classic form of “Night Before Christmas”. What a great way to do comparison and contrast with students... I think we have some holiday books to read

 I’ve listed 22 titles I found quickly….

1. Navy’s Night Before Christmas by Christine Ford and Trish Holland
2. Berenstain Bears Night Before Christmas by Mike Berenstain
3. Night before the Night Before Christmas by Natasha Wing and Mike Lester
4. Dinosaurs Night Before Christmas by Anne Muecke and Nathan Hale
5. Pirate’s Night Before Christmas by Philip Yates and Sebastia Serra
6. Texas Night Before Christmas by James Rice
7. Olaf’s Night Before Christmas by Disney Book Group
8. An Irish Night Before Christmas by Sarah Blazek and James Rice
9. Soldier’s Night Before Christmas by Christine Ford by Trish Holland
10. Teacher’s Night Before Christmas by Steven Layne and James Rice
11. Night Before Christmas in Texas by Leon Harris and Meg Wohlberg
12. Firefighters Night Before Christmas by Kimbra Cutlip and James Rice\
13. Principal’s Night Before Christmas by  by Steven Layne and James Rice
14. Night Before Christmas in Paris by Betty Lou Phillips and Roblyn Hermdon
15. Thomas Night Before Christmas by R. Schuyler Hooke and Richard Courtney
16. Twas the Night Before Christmas as told by the cat by by Nick Filippouwboki
17. Dinosaurs Night Before Christmas by Jim Harris
18. Librarians Night Before Christmas by David Davis and Jim Harris
19. Minnie and Moo, the Night Before Christmas by Denys Davis
20. Night Before Christmas In the South by Barbara Hagerty and Sheryl Dickert
21. Barnyard Night Before Christmas by Beth Terrilll and Greg Newboki
22. Texas Night Before Christmas by E.K. Sullivan

Christmas Time for Love

Christmas Time is in the air.  If you are around children, their excitement is contagious.  God surely knew when he gave us the Christ child, that CHILDREN would love the holiday.  I am excited to see more children knowing the True meaning of Christmas.  The birth of our savior is exciting.  And while the gift giving sometimes gets out of hand, I think the Wisemen gave us a great example to give Him gifts.  I believe it is because of love within us, that gift giving then must extend to our giving gifts to others we love as well…of course~  This Bashful Book Bee, loves giving gifts.... and most of the time they are books, of course, ~ 

My number one gift book for children is one of my all-time favorite books.

                         The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams was written in 1922.   

However, this classic tale still will be loved by all…from young children to adults.  The sweet little story is a young stuffed rabbit given to a young boy at Christmas. While the story is primarily about the loving relationship the boy develops with his toy, the toy also meets many new animals in the nursery.  These new acquaintances give the young rabbit the brutal truth that "he" is not "real".  The toy rabbit's greatest desire is to become real. However, through the sincere love the rabbit has for the boy, he learns the awesome lesson of selfless love, which proves to be the magic of being truly REAL.

Bashful book bee give this classic~

Bashful Book Bee’s other great Christmas book recommendations:

• ·         The Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood.  Every child that Bashful has given this book to, reports it is STILL their favorite book~
• ·         A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
• ·         The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Each of these books will bring smiles and warm fuzzy feelings to all of their readers.

Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents, and grandparents.

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Turkey Claus by Wendi Silvano is a great book

 to start the holiday story season. 

Blending Thanksgiving with Christmas this story takes Turkey into the Christmas season with new doubts about his future.  Turkey is the master of disguise that he proved to be in 

Silvano's Thanksgiving book Turkey Trouble.  Wendi's creativity makes stories children love and also inspires them to be creative as well.  The popularity of this books is growing, so lots of educators have teaching ideas for it listed below.

Bashful gives this book...

 Teachers can find several companion units on....

• Teachers Pay Teachers
• Chalk Talk blogspot https://goo.gl/MXExdz
• Pinterest : https://goo.gl/tQJuXN
• Kelly and Kim's Kreation blogspot https://goo.gl/5spWcE
• Liz Pledger's Happy Teacher blogspot https://goo.gl/J7GBm2

It's beginning to look a lot like 

Christmas~ 

Thanksgiving Turkeys

Bashful Book Bee this week wants to share TWO great turkey books for sharing this week.... it will give students great fun getting ready for Thanksgiving.

Turkey Trouble by Wendi J. Silvano  

is a hilarious tale from the point of view of the Turkey... For obvious reasons

TURKEY is a little worried about Thanksgiving day.  To save himself he begins to creatively think of disguises that maybe he can wear to avoid being discovered. This is a perfect story for a writing prompt...what would your disguise be if you were a turkey.... 

BASHFUL BOOK BEE LOVES IT!

 Another great story "little's will love is

Turkey Pox by Laurie Halse Anderson.

The family in our story is a zany group of a multi-family residence. 

Each member of this family has an active part in getting ready to get 

Thanksgiving dinner ready, everyone dressed and loaded 
into the car to Nana's house.

When after a short time on the road, suddenly it's discovered 
there are "POX" in the car.

Despite the disappointment, Dad turns the car around to head back home.

As a blizzard blows in it's obvious the family will not all be together for 

Thanksgiving.  But anyone who knows the driving force of a "Nana" can predict the story will have a happy ending.  This story is FULL OF FUN.

Bashful Book Bee give the "NANA" story...

Bashful Book Bee hopes all of our readers have a blessed 

Thanksgiving with friends and family.

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Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, 

teachers, educators, parents, and grandparents.

I am.... by Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer author of the biographies for children's series "I Am" books has hit a win win... While he has been writing political  thrillers and non-fiction books for adults for years Meltzer has brought that skilled writing to young readers.  On a shopping trip  with his daughter for a costume, he realized most costumes were of movie characters that children idolized.

He then realized he wanted his children to know of historical figures as heroes.  In Meltzer's gifted way, he has written a series of bibliographies from George Washington to Harriet Tubman to Lucille Ball  One of my favorites  I am Amelia Earhart, Meltzer takes Amelia's story and turns it into a book young readers can read, 

enjoy and find inspiration.  

The story shows how Amelia's personality must have been mischievous and she must have been a definitely think outside the box girl... A young lady who knew no boundaries. The stories show the main characters as children and real situations the heroes experienced.  The illustrations of Christopher Eliopoulos have a comic book characteristics that bring smiles 

to all readers especially children. 

Meltzer says his core belief is ordinary people change the world, what a great lesson to encourage for our children.

Bashfulbookbee is ready to share these 

great biographies with children~

I give them 5

follow this link to see an interview with Brad Meltzer:

Brad Meltzer's I am books interview with CBS Morning News

Lily the Unicorn by Dallas Clayton

Bashful Book Bee LOVES the new book I found, 

thanks to "The Peppermint Pig Books. 

Lily the Unicorn by Dallas Clayton is a GREAT book!

Lilly is a fun loving unicorn who, as most unicorns do, LOVES being different.

Here is where the great storyline provides education opportunities...
Lilly likes making things,

 but she likes making friends MOST of all. This loving to make friends is when she meets a new friend Roger.  Roger Is a little penguin who as Lily says doesn't get out much~ and because of that 

Roger is afraid to take on any challenge due to fear.  

Lily to the rescue... Lily teaches Roger to enjoy life by taking risks...

In finding this book I did a little research on Dallas Clayton. He is a creative encouraging father who discovered his joy is writing and drawing children's books that encourage.

Bashfulbookbee gives  Lily the Unicorn

Bashful's Education Tip of the week is The reading without walls challenge.... 

Children's Book Council with Gene Luen Yang of National Ambassador for Young People's Literature has developed this great reading challenge to young readers to read something out of their norm....

http://www.cbcbooks.org/reading-without-walls/

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Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. 
In doing that she loves to introduce books to children, teachers, 
educators, parents, and grandparents.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves

It's Fall Ya'll we can feel it in the air.... don't you just love it~ 

There's an old lady who swallowed some leaves is a great book to start your Fall adventures.  Lucille  Colandro has taken that old story "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly" and turned it into a great series of books.  Her books teach sequencing in a cumulative story filled with nonsense rhyme.  Readers will feel autumn in the air as Colandro shares the many
fall aspects the old lady swallows.
 The creative story gives students a fun way of thinking about fall and
our symbols to identify with the season.

Bashful gives this books 

Scholastic is the main publisher of this book.  They have provided a great teaching guide for teachers using this book.,,,,https://goo.gl/6G6bQm

This week's app is Open ebooks from First Books...
for you educators...check out the OPEN ebook app from the
app store... Your school can get a Free account with First Books and get tons of great
 ebooks for your students...
Happy Reading

Wonder and We're All Wonders

 Wonder and We're All Wonders by R.J. Palacio

I have Wonder on the brain... I can't get enough of these two books... with that said I'm re-posting a previous blog.  The district I'm in is having a district wide initiative to promote these books~ 

In hoping to help educators find resources to use with this book, I created a "Symbaloo" FULL of great teaching resource sites for both books... 

Have a great WONDER-FUL WEEK~

https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/wonderwereallwonder

Wonder by P.J. Palacio
Why blend in when you were born to stand out?

Bashfulbookbee's book of the week this week is
Wonder by P.J. Palacio.  

THIS BOOK is going to get a lot of attention this year because a movie from this book will be released in November.  For several years the Librarian/Media Specialists of the school district I work in have had one book we shared throughout the district as an effort to provide collaboration throughout our curriculum.  "WONDER" is going to be one of the greatest initiatives we have shared. Wonder is a book about a young boy who has a rare medical deformity, mandibulofacial dysostosis. This book shares the challenges, fears, anxieties that the young character face, but also the wins.  He has a spirit of strength that brings out good in some hard to love personalities.  I hope this book will inspire all students with challenges, whether it is physical challenges, emotional challenges or life challenges... to keep on looking for the strength to be the best they can be. 

I do not have a doubt in the world that the movie is going to be  GREAT...with the great line of actors it can't be anything but WONDERFUL.... but as any Librarian would tell you...IF you liked the movie... You will LOVE the Book~

Bashfulbook bee gives this book...5 BEES

Palacio has written another book that is a great companion for younger grades...

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Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. 
In doing that she loves to introduce books to children, teachers, 
educators, parents, and grandparents.

Bashfulbook bee has the found the sweetest book about trust.  Can I Tell You a Secret? by Anna Kang.  The little frog Monty in the book has a BIG SECRET.  Fearing he will disappoint his parents he holds his secret inside.  In the story,  he finally shares his secret with a friend. The person reading the book is Monty's new friend. He explains his fear, and the friend encourages him to talk to his parents.  After lot's of encouragement from the friend, he finally after a lot of attempts tells his parents.  The joy of the story is, of course,  that his parents knew all along. With their help, they face his fear head on....Monty learns no more secret's from his parents!~  This book has heart, thinking, challenges, great moral, and the artwork is GREAT.

Bashfullbookbee gives Can I Tell You a Secret?  

Amazon	Barnes and Noble	New York times back to school recommendations
Dog Man: A Tale of Two by Dave Pilkey	Wonder  by R.J. Palacio	Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Curious George Good Night by H.A.Rey	Imagine by John Lennon	Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky
Dragon’s Love Tacos  by Adam RubinLyle	Princesses Wear Pants by Savannah Guthrie	Dork Diaries Rachel Renee Russell

This week's app of the week:

Max and Meredity:  The Search for Percival by Move on Pluto

is a storybook app that can help younger children with comprehension, growth, and retention.  It's a modern-day "Choose your own adventure"

For more information and comments, please email us at bashfulbookbee@gmail.com Remember when teachers order, they receive 15% off cover price.

Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. But her primary goal is to introduce books to children, teachers, educators, parents, and grandparents.

Following Dot International week, I thought it would be "BEEFITTING" to give credit to another of Peter H. Reynolds books....  Playing For the Heart.   Reynolds creates a heart filled story of a young boy who has a gift of tone that allows him to play the piano with no formal training.  In an effort to help his young son develop his gift, his father provides him with a teacher and lessons.  The lessons, however, take the joy out of the young pianist gift.  The more he practices, and greater his skills the less he wants to play.  The young boy as he grows, plays less and less.  As an adult, he no longer plays. One day his father becomes ill. As soon as the boy arrives at his father's side the father requests him to play.  The song that brought the most joy to the father and the son was not one of a famous composer, but the song the son had played from his heart.  The story gives so many lessons of encouragement for young people to strive to be creative and find joy in their art.  Many writing prompts given by teachers are used from stories with heart.... Playing For the Heart will definitely be the book that many teachers can use with heart.
Bashfulbookbee wishes to give this book....

TOP THREE CHILDREN'S Book Sellers this week

Amazon	Barnes and Noble	New York Times Children's Friendship books
Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties by Dav Pilkney	Wonder by R.J. Palacio	Yak and Dove by Kyo Maclear
Wonder by R.J. Palacio	Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties by Dav Pilkney	Molly and Mae by Danny Parker
Princesses Wear Pants by Savannah Guthrie	Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowlin	Baabwaa & Wooliam by David Elliott

Best App of the week:

Symbaloo is a bookmarking tool that can help organize YOUR favorite sites....A cool feature is it uses GOOGLE right smack in the middle for instant searching...

 here is a sample
Symbaloo by Tech Teacher    https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/quickeasy

Sept. 15 is International Dot day, so with that Bashfulbookbee'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 a challenge, try and try again, never give up, do unto others....

But another great positive is the way the teacher in this book encourages creativity as well as building confidence in her student.  It seems sometimes we stress to our children to strive to make the grade of 100 or an A so much, that then we create children who are afraid to take risks.  Doing the best job we can is important, but we don't want them to give up with out even giving it a try~

 Check it out I think you will find it's a must for every classroom.

Happy Reading...

Bashful gives  The Dot 

\This week instead of giving top book sellers I'm using a report from a leading reading company to show what first and second graders read in 2017

BashfulBookbee's app of the week is Buncee..... Buncee is a fun and easy web tool for educators and students to create and share engaging multimedia presentations, interactive lessons, digital stories and more.... Check it out~

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Bashful Book Bee "BEELIEVE'S" in sharing the love of books and reading with everyone. 
In doing that she loves to introduce books to children, teachers, 
educators, parents, and grandparents.