Book List from Chapter 4 - Mentoring Young Writers by Blanche Lamont

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

* indicates books suitable as models for writing or for generating topics.

Poetic Prose or Text is Like a Poem
Banks, Kate – And If the Moon Could Talk
Bajaj, Varsha – How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight?
Bauer, Marion Dane – The Longest Night
* Baylor, Byrd – I’m In Charge of Celebrations
* Beck, Carolyn – Buttercup’s Lovely Day
Brown, Ruth – Toad
Carlstrom, Nancy White – Raven and River
* Dixon, Ann – Winter Is
Davies, Nicola – Bat Loves the Night
* Dunphy, Madeline - Here is the Arctic Winter
* Dunphy, Madeline – Here is the Wetland.
Fitch, Sheree – No Two Snowflakes
Edwards, Pamela – Some Smug Slug
* Godwin, Laura – Barnyard Prayers
* Jessell, Tim – Falcon
Johnston, Tony – Desert Song
* Kimmel, Elizabeth, - What do You Dream?
Kurtz, Jane – Water Hole Waiting
* Lesser, Carolyn – Storm on the Desert
* Lesser, Carolyn – What a Wonderful Day to be a
Cow
Lobel, Gillian – Moonshadow’s Journey
* Locker, Thomas – Water Dance
London, Jonathan – Sun Dance, Water Dance
* London, Jonathan – Voices of the Wild
* London, Jonathan – Giving Thanks
Manuel, Lynn – The Night the Moon Blew Kisses
Messner, Kate – Over and Under the Snow
Nelson, Robert Lyn – Our Ocean Home
* O’Neill, Mary – Sound of Day, Sound of Night
* Patten, Brian – The Blue & GreenArk
* Paulsen, Gary – Canoe Days
* Pow, Tom - Who Is the World For?
Powell, Roxanne – Cat, Mouse and Moon
Ray, Mary Lyn – Mud
* Ryder, Joanne – My Father’s Hands
Ryder, Joanne – Tyrannosaurus Time
Rylant, Cynthia – Long Night Moon
Schimmel, Schim – Children of the Earth,
Remember
* Schuett, Stacy – Somewhere in the World
Right Now
* Sidman, Joyce – Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets
of the Meadow / St. Pierre, Stephanie – What the Sea Saw
* Stutson, Caroline - By the Light of the Halloween
Moon
Wolfe, Frances – Where I Live
Wood, Douglas – Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth
* Wood, Douglas – Making the World
* Wood, Douglas –A Quiet Place
* Wood, Douglas – The Secret of Saying Thanks
* Wood, Douglas – No One But You

Yolen, Jane – Nocturne

With Personification

Bauer, Marion Dane – Sleep, Little One, Sleep
Bauer, Marion Dane – The Longest Night
* Beck, Carolyn – Buttercup’s Lovely Day
Berger, Carin – The Little Yellow Leaf
* Carlstrom, Nancy White – Goodbye Geese
Carlstrom, Nancy White – How Does the Wind Walk?
Carlstrom, Nancy White – Raven and River
Griffith, Helen – Moonlight
* Hundal, Nancy – Camping
* Kimmel, Elizabeth, - What do You Dream?
Kurtz, Jane – Water Hole Waiting
Lindbergh, Reeve – North Country Spring
Locker, Thomas – Water Dance
* London, Jonathan – I See the Moon and the Moon Sees Me
* London, Jonathan- Giving Thanks
London, Jonathan – Little Lost Tiger
Manuel, Lynn – The Night the Moon Blew Kisses
* Marzollo, Jean – Sun Song
Morgenstern, Constance – Waking Day
Plourde, Lynn – Wild Child
Plourde, Lynn – Winter Waits
Ryan, Pam Munoz – HelloOcean
Rylant, Cynthia - Long Night Moon
Schimmel, Schim – Children of the Earth… Remember
* Schuett, Stacey - Somewhere in the World Right
Now
* Sidman, Joyce – Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets
of the Meadow

Spence, Maxine – Leaf

* Wood, Douglas – No One But You

Wood, Douglas – Grandad’s Prayers of the Earth
* Wood, Douglas – Making the World

With Rhythm

Adlerman, Daniel – Africa Calling
* Albert, Burton – Windsongs and Rainbows
* Bartoletti, Susan – Nobody’s Diggier Than a Dog
* Boon, Debbie – My Gran
Heiligman, Deborah – Fun Dog, Sun Dog
Mitchard, Jacquelyn – Baby Bat’s Lullaby
* Oppenheim, Joanne – Have You Seen Birds?
* Oppenheim, Joanne – Have Your Seen Dogs?
* Oppenheim, Joanne – Have Your Seen Trees?
Plourde, Lynn – Wild Child
Wilson, Gina – Prowlpuss

With Alliteration

* Beck, Carolyn – Buttercup’s Lovely Day
Edwards, Pamela – Some Smug Slug
Kurtz, Jane – Water Hole Waiting
Lindbergh, Reeve – North Country Spring
* O’Neill, Mary – The Sound of Day, the Sound of
Night
* Oppenheim, Joanne – Have You Seen Birds?
Plourde, Lynne – Wild Child
Plourde, Lynnn – Winter Waits
Ray, Mary Lyn – Mud
* Ryan, Pam Munoz – HelloOcean
Waite, Judy – Mouse, Look Out!
* Schnur, Steven – Autumn, also books: Winter, Spring and Summer
* Sidman, Joyce – Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets
of the Meadow
* Stutson, Caroline – By the Light of the Halloween Moon
Waite, Judy – Mouse, Look Out!
Wilson, Gina – Prowlpuss

* Wolff, FeridaKozielski, Dolores – On

Halloween Night / With Similes and Metaphors
Beach, Judy – Names for Snow
* Beck, Carolyn – Buttercup’s Lovely Day
Bunn, Bill – Moon Canoe
Fitch, Sheree – No Two Snowflakes
* Hundal, Nancy – I Heard My Mother Call My Name
Johnston, Tony – Desert Song
* Kranking, Kathleen – The Ocean Is…
Leedy, Loreen - Crazy Like a Fox
* Lesser, Carolyn – Storm on the Desert
* Lesser, Carolyn – What a Wonderful Day to be a Cow
Lofthouse, Liz – Ziba Came on a Boat
* London, Jonathan – Voices of the Wild
London, Jonathan – Little Lost Tiger
*Paolilli, Paulo & Brewer, Dan – Silver Seeds
* Paulsen Gary – Canoe Days
Powell, Roxanne – Cat, Mouse and Moon
* Ryan, Pam Munoz – HelloOcean
* Schnur, Steven – Autumn (acrostic)
* Schnur, Steven – Spring (acrostic)
* Schuett, Stacey - Somewhere in the World Right
Now
* Sidman, Joyce – Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets
of the Meadow
* Wood, Douglas –A Quiet Place
* Wood, Douglas – Making the World
* Wood, Audrey – Quick as a Cricket
Yolen, Jane – Nocturne
With Acrostic Poems

* Paolilli, Paulo & Brewer, Dan – Silver Seeds

* Schnur, Steven – Spring
* Schnur, Steven – Summer
* Schnur, Steven – Autumn
* Schnur, Steven – Winter

Because of their length, sterling language and myriad topics, picture books serve as excellent models for mentoring young writers as they learn the writer’s craft. Mentoring Young Writers is packed full of practical, user-friendly strategies for using picture books to teach writing techniques such as: focusing on strong verbs, using elaborative details and varying sentence structures. Help your students avoid the common pitfalls of implausible events, too much dialogue, boring beginnings (and much more) as they craft their fiction stories. Help them create poems with vivid imagery and figurative language, or learn how to engage them in exciting, meaningful personal narrative writing. Included with the book is a CD, which contains all the appendices for each chapter. In addition, educators will appreciate the recommended books lists, the examples of how to use specific books as springboards for student writing, and the shared writing examples included throughout. This book is focused on helping educators teach the skills all good writers possess. You and your students will be amazed at the results!

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