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Continue reading →: Inside Out & Back AgainThanhha Lai, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Lai, Thanhhà. 2011. INSIDE OUT & BACK AGAIN. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061962783. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Inside Out & Back Again is a novel composed of poems that follows a young girl named Hà as she leaves her home of Vietnam after the fall of Saigon…
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Continue reading →: Mirror MirrorMarilyn Singer, Author Josee Masse, Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Singer, Marilyn. 2010. MIRROR MIRROR: A BOOK OF REVERSO POEMS. Ill. by Josee Masse. New York: Dutton Children’s Books. ISBN 9780525479017. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Mirror Mirror is a collection of well-known fairy tale poems that are written in “reverso” form. Each poem begins…
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Continue reading →: Red Sings from TreetopsJoyce Sidman, Author Pamela Zagarenski, Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Sidman, Joyce. 2009. RED SINGS FROM TREETOPS: A YEAR IN COLORS. Ill. by Pamela Zagarenski. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. ISBN 9780547014944. 2. PLOT SUMMARY RED SINGS FROM THE TREETOPS: A YEAR IN COLORS is a collection of poems about the changing…
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Continue reading →: RapunzelPaul O. Zelinsky, Author & Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Zelinsky, Paul O. 1997. RAPUNZEL. New York: Dutton Children’s Books. ISBN 9780525456070. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Paul O. Zelinsky’s retelling of RAPUNZEL follows the traditional fairy tale of a girl who is taken from her parents at birth and raised by a sorceress in…
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Continue reading →: Beautiful BlackbirdAshley Bryan, Author & Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Bryan, Ashley. 2003. BEAUTIFUL BLACKBIRD. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780689847318. 2. PLOT SUMMARY BEAUTIFUL BLACKBOARD is the beautiful retelling of a Zambian folktale about a group of colorful birds who admire the beauty of Blackbird. The other birds are a…
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Continue reading →: The Ugly DucklingJerry Pinkney, Adopted & Illustrated BIBLIOGRAPHY Andersen, Hans Christian. 1999. THE UGLY DUCKLING. Adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. New York: Morrow Junior Books. ISBN 068815932X. 2. PLOT SUMMARY The Ugly Duckling is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic by Jerry Pinkney. It is the story of a young…
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Continue reading →: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!Jon Scieszka, Author Lane Smith, Illustrated BIBLIOGRAPHY Scieszka, Jon. 1989. THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS! Ill. by Lane Smith. New York: Viking Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780670827596. 2. PLOT SUMMARY THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS!, is a retelling of the familiar story of…
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Continue reading →: Finding WinnieLindsay Mattick, Author Sophie Blackall, Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Mattick, Lindsay. 2015. FINDING WINNIE: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS BEAR. Ill. by Sophie Blackall. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780316324908. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Finding Winnie is the true story behind the bear that inspired the…
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Continue reading →: The Snowy DayEzra Jack Keats, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Keats, Ezra Jack. 1962. THE SNOWY DAY. Ill. by Ezra Jack Keats. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 9780670654000. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Peter wakes up to find that snow has fallen overnight in his neighborhood. In excitement, he puts on his red snowsuit and ventures outside…
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Continue reading →: Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak, Author & Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Sendak, Maurice. 1963. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Ill. by Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 9780060254926. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Max, a boy who loves his wolf suit and loves to cause mischief in the comfort of his home. The mischief led…
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