So the week before finals, I took a final for my children's lit class that I had been taking online through BYU independent study. It was a fun class but super time consuming because, well, reading takes time haha! I had to read 33 picture books and 24 chapter books.
Keep in mind I've done a lot of reading in my life and for this class we weren't allowed to read books we've already read so I had to pick out new ones which was sometimes kind of difficult. And at this point, some of the story lines just all kind of run together.
So I sit down with my test and one of the questions that it asks me for the short answer are to name 2 books from each genre that I would recommend as a teacher.
Doesn't seem too difficult right? Well guess what. My mind went completely blank. You would think that I would be able to remember at least some of the books that I've read, even if they weren't for the class.
I ended up doing well on the exam but I walked out of that testing center thinking that I needed to come home and write down some of my favorites for future reference since I will be a teacher someday. So here I am.
Picture Books
Alphabet
The Turn-Around Upside-Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Chica Chica Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Counting
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
Mother Goose
Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book by L. Leslie Brooke
Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola
Concept
White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Beker
Click, Clack, Splish, Splash by Doreen Cronin
Click Clack Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle
Wordless
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Storybooks
Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Berry
A Pocket Full of Kisses by Audrey Penn
Dr Suess!
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Lily's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Traditional Fantasy
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjornsen
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Modern Fantasy
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Ella Enchanted
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Holes by Louis Sachar
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Esperanza Rising by Pam Ryan
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Last Shot
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Love, Ruby Lavender
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
Peter and the Starcatchers
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles by
The Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Adventure/Historical Fiction
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
Picture Book Biographies by David A. Adler
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osbourne
Mutiny's Daughter by Ann Rinaldi
Nine Days A Queen by Ann Rinaldi
Informational
Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride by Munoz Ryan
Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Lynn Curlee
Poetry
Shel Silverstein - A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
For Older Readers
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collings
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Well here's just a few. There are many more fantastic books I've read! And I'll probably add more on here once I remind myself of some of the ones I missed.
Keep in mind I've done a lot of reading in my life and for this class we weren't allowed to read books we've already read so I had to pick out new ones which was sometimes kind of difficult. And at this point, some of the story lines just all kind of run together.
So I sit down with my test and one of the questions that it asks me for the short answer are to name 2 books from each genre that I would recommend as a teacher.
Doesn't seem too difficult right? Well guess what. My mind went completely blank. You would think that I would be able to remember at least some of the books that I've read, even if they weren't for the class.
I ended up doing well on the exam but I walked out of that testing center thinking that I needed to come home and write down some of my favorites for future reference since I will be a teacher someday. So here I am.
Picture Books
Alphabet
The Turn-Around Upside-Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Chica Chica Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Counting
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
Mother Goose
Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book by L. Leslie Brooke
Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola
Concept
White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Beker
Click, Clack, Splish, Splash by Doreen Cronin
Click Clack Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle
Wordless
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Storybooks
Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Berry
A Pocket Full of Kisses by Audrey Penn
Dr Suess!
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
Lily's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Traditional Fantasy
Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjornsen
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald McDermott
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Modern Fantasy
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Ella Enchanted
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Holes by Louis Sachar
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Esperanza Rising by Pam Ryan
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Last Shot
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Love, Ruby Lavender
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
Peter and the Starcatchers
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles by
The Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Adventure/Historical Fiction
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
Picture Book Biographies by David A. Adler
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osbourne
Mutiny's Daughter by Ann Rinaldi
Nine Days A Queen by Ann Rinaldi
Informational
Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride by Munoz Ryan
Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Lynn Curlee
Poetry
Shel Silverstein - A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
For Older Readers
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collings
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Well here's just a few. There are many more fantastic books I've read! And I'll probably add more on here once I remind myself of some of the ones I missed.
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