The Picture Book Almanac : Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays

This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year-even "holidays" you've never heard of-and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers. Young students need to continually be presented with a vast variety of types of books, authors, illustrators, and subject matter in order to find the perfect concept or image that sparks their imagination, takes their comprehension to a new level, or helps them turn the corner to becoming a book lover. Nancy J. Polette's The Picture Book Almanac: Picture Books and Activities to Celebrate 365 Familiar and Unusual Holidays can be used year-round as a key to open that great literary treasure vault. The books Polette has painstakingly selected for their value as learning opportunities tie into both familiar and unusual holidays, ranging from official, nationally recognized holidays to obscure ones such as Milk Day and Thesaurus Day. The daily featured book titles cover the classics, such as books in the Paddington Bear series and Cinderella to outstanding current and just-published titles, collectively representing the best choices for collection building over time. This book is an excellent tool for collection development as well as an indispensable resource for reading teachers and classroom teachers. Includes more than 365 recommended picture books selected for their genuine worth as well as for their diversity Offers fun, quick, and easily completed activities coordinated to daily holidays throughout the year Provides a useful resource for anyone who works with young children in schools, public libraries, or in the home, for those new to picture books and experienced veterans alike Helps educators to stress the joy of reading and enable students to learn new and interesting things every day of the year