Everyone is a reader. . .Some just haven’t found their

favourite book yet.

Session 1 – Barb’s Picks

• Global Read Aloud• @pernilleripp• http://globalreadaloud.wikispaces.com• Book trailers• https://www.schooltube.com/video/1d90b38

d37b94915a787/Out%20of%20My%20Mind%20Book%20Trailer

Global Read Aloud

• 2013• Geoff Herbach

• Sharon M. Draper• Kate Messner

• Eric Carle

Global Read Aloud

• 2014

• Fault in our Stars• One for the Murphys• The Fourteenth Goldfish• Edward Tulane• Peter H. Reynolds

Newbery Winners

• Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Literature

• 2013

• Kate DiCamillo• Flora & Ullysses

Newbery Winners

• Honor Books – 2014

• Doll Bones by Holly Black• The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes• One Came Home – Amy Timberlake• Paperboy – Vince Vawter

Newbery Winner

• 2013

• The One and Only Ivan• Katherine Applegate

Caldecott Books

• Most Distinguished Picture Book• Brian Floca – author &• Illustrator• Non-fiction

• Also illustrated Marty Maguire books

Caldecott Books

• Honor Books – 2014• Journey – Aaron Becker• Flora & the Flamingo – Molly Idle• Mr. Wuffles – David Weisner

Caldecott Winner

• Jon Klassen –

• Canadian author/illustrator

The Nerdy Book Club

• http://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/

• Follow the blog• See April 12th blogpost – The Top Ten Reasons I

Can’t Stop Reading Children’s & Young Adult Literature

• Lots of Top 10 Lists

The Nerdy Book Club

• Led me to the other bloggers (see list on right side of homepage)

• Watch, Connect, Read – John Schumacher, • @MrSchuReads• Sharpread - @colbysharp• Donalyn Miller -@donalynbooks• Teri Lesesne - @professornana• Franki Sibberson

More from Nerdy Book Club

• TeachMentorTexts• YA Love• Read, Write, Reflect• @PaulWHankins

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award

• When the Beat was Born, D.J. Kool Herc & the Creation of Hip Hop

• Laban Carrick Hill, 2013• Illustrated by TheodoreTaylor III

More Winners

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

• Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear. • Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault

Barb’s Picks

• Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell• Fangirl • Winter Girls – Laurie Halse Anderson• Speak• Ice Dogs – Terry Lynn Johnson• Wonder – R.J. Palacio• David Levithan – Boy Meets Boy, Every Day, 2

Boys Kissing, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Greene)

Barb’s Picks

• Waiting for Early – Clare Vanderpol• Librarian on the Roof – M.G. King• Battle Bunny – Jon Scieszka & Matt Barnett• The Girl Who Threw Butterflies – Mick Cochrane• The Animal Book – Steve Jenkins• Stuck – Oliver Jeffers• The Day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt• Mr. Tiger Goes Wild – Peter Brown• Z is for Moose – Kelly Bingham, Paul Zelinsky, illustrator

Heather’s Picks

• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell• Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan• Chris Hadfield An Astronauts Guide to the

Universe• Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Math Books

• Sir Cumference and . . . By Cindy Neuschwander. (approx 10 books)

• What’s your Angle, Pythagoras? By Julie Ellis. • The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang• Math Fables by Greg Tang• How They Croaked, The Awful Ends of the Awfully

Famous by Georgia Bragg• The Boy Who Loved Math by Deborah Heiligman• Math Curse by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

Young Adult Fiction

• http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/living/young-adult-fiction-evolution/index.html

Goodreads

• http://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2013

• http://canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.ca/