Wood block print by Ashley Bryan
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Books we mention
- Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
- The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Reading Picture Books With Children by Megan Dowd Lambert
- Ashley Bryan
- Eric Carle
- Jan Brett
- Graeme Base
- Yo! Yes? by Chris Raschka
- This Book Just Ate My Dog by Richard Byrne
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- The Cloud Spinner by Michael Catchpool, illustrated by Alison Jay
- The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan by Beatrix Potter
- Jack Prelutsky
Other resources
- 30 Million Word Gap
- “Let’s Stop Talking About the ’30 Million Word Gap'” from NPR
- “The Long, Contentious History of the Word Gap Study” from The Atlantic
- Eric Carle Museum
Read Aloud Focus Suggestions
- Orientation: the size and shape of the book, a landscape orientation has shorter height than width, a portrait orientation has a shorter width than height
- Dust jack: the cover that goes around a hardback, cover of the book
- Endpapers: the pages glued to the inside of the cover of a hardback, they often feature elements of the story that add to the understanding of that story, paperbacks sometimes feature them as the first and last bound pages
- Front matter: the cover, title page, copyright page, dedications, etc.
- Second story: these are stories that are not written into the the text of the story, but are seen in the illustrations
- Gutter: the split between the right and left pages
- Air frames: the white space around the illustrations
- Typography: the fonts as well as how they are presented on the page
- Single- and double-page spreads
- Also think about how time is shown progressing in illustrations
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