Look closely at the following example leads. If you had the actual book in your hands, think and decide if you would like to continue reading the piece based on the leads.

Good Leads?

There were five of them.And they were waiting…

These are the first 2 sentences in Kevin Henkes’ book “Waiting,” published in 2015.It won the Caldecott Honor and the Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor medals.

These are the 1st two sentences in Matt de la Pena’s “Last Stop on Market Street” which won the Caldecott Honor and the Newbery Medal in 2016.

CJ pushed through the church doors, skipped down the steps. The outside air smelled like freedom,

but it also smelled like rain,which freckled CJ’s shirt and dripped down his nose.

We have our own way of living down here in New Orleans, and our own way of talking, too. And that’s what we like to say when we want to tell a friend hello.So,

WHERE Y’AT?

WHERE Y’AT?

WHERE Y’AT?

This is the beginning of the book “Trombone Shorty” written by Trombone Shorty Andrews which won the Caldecott Honor in 2016.

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favorite titles in children’s literature.

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you?