Monday, June 24, 2019

Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I Don't) by Barbara Bottner. 2010.

For the Love of Books
Inspiration Book:
Miss Brooks loves books! (and I don't) by Bottner, Barbara  — Alfred A. Knopf, 2010--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.4 A first-grade girl--who does not like to read--stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind. 
Rationale: At the beginning of each new school year, I love to share books about books and librarians and reading. This one is perfect. In the primary grades we spend almost the entire first month on those topics, one week at a time as we also learn library manners, expectations, rules and book care. By being creative, those topics can be intertwined with fun stories. As a result, I collect, well, select books for the collection that fit my needs for the first weeks. The Related Books list is a short list of the kids’ favorites that have stood their scrutiny over the years and have helped them learn to love books just like Missy in the Inspiration Book plus a few newer titles. Many of them are also tributes to librarians and teachers who have helped create a love of reading. Shrek, the book that turned Missy on is also on the list as is the companion book Miss Brooks’ Story Nook.
How Rocket Learned to Read is a Books Alive entry, too. Look for other Books Alive entries, both Quick Picks and complete lessons about books and reading and writing, including A Book, Word After Word After Word, and Plot Chickens. An entry featuring mobile librarians is entered under Biblioburro and also includes That Book Woman and Miss Dorothy and her Bookmobile and emphasizes Librarian Power.
Teacher Resources:
See LibrarySparks, October 2014 pp.35-37 “Library Lessons” Lesson I-- A Just-Right Book; Lesson II--Rhyme Time Riddles (online resource, too); Lesson III--Graphing in the Library (online resource, too). LibrarySparks has now gone out of print, but I found the periodical so useful that I saved all of the issues for reference. If you did, too, these lessons fit the topic well.
Personal Website for Barbara Bottner including a book trailer for Miss Brooks Story Nook

Related Books:
Z is for Moose by Bingham, Kelly L ( — Greenwillow Books, 2012 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 0.8. Moose is terribly eager to play his part in Zebra's alphabet book, but when his letter passes him by, Moose behaves rather badly until Zebra finds a spot for him.
We are in a book! (Elephant And Piggie) by Willems, Mo  — Hyperion Books for Children, 2010 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 0.9. Piggie realizes that she and Gerald the elephant are in a book and that she can make the reader say words, but when Gerald comes to understand the danger of the book ending, Piggie comes up with a solution to get the reader to keep reading.
It's a book by Smith, Lane  — Roaring Brook Press, 2010 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 1.0. Two readers compare a print to digital media, and learn books are still valuable.
Beatrice doesn't want to by Numeroff, Laura Joffe — Candlewick Press, c2004 p2008 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.2. On the third afternoon of going to the library with her brother Henry, Beatrice finally finds something she enjoys doing.
The incredible book eating boy by Jeffers, Oliver  — Philomel Books, c2006 p2007 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.2. Henry loves to eat books, until he begins to feel quite ill and decides that maybe he could do something else with the books he has been devouring.
But excuse me that is my book by Child, Lauren — Dial Books for Young Readers, 2005 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.3. When Lola's favorite book is not on the library's shelf, her older brother, Charlie, tries to find another book she will enjoy.
Hooray for Reading Day! by Cuyler, Margery — Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.3 First-grader Jessica, a big worrier, is especially afraid that she will make a mistake when she is reading in front of her class and parents on Reading Theater Day, but after lots of practice reading to her dog Wiggles, she performs perfectly. 
Miss Brooks' Story Nook : (where tales are told and ogres are welcome) by Bottner, Barbara — Alfred A. Knopf, 2014--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.4 A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process. 
FREE Teaching Resources available for download at FREE Teaching Resources available for download from Follett.com--includes ideas for a Miss Brooks story hour.
 I don't like to read! (Henry (Carolrhoda)) by Carlson, Nancy L — Puffin Books, c2007 p2009 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.5. Henry the mouse likes everything about first grade except reading, but with some extra help at school and home, he is delightfully surprised.
Library lion by Knudsen, Michelle  — Candlewick Press, 2006 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.7. A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.
How Rocket learned to read by Hills, Tad — Schwartz & Wade Books, 2010--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 2.9 A little yellow bird teaches Rocket the dog how to read by first introducing him to the alphabet. FREE Teaching Resources available for download at Follett.com--lessons for all three Rocket books.
Ice cream summer by Sis, Peter — Scholastic Press, 2015 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 3.0. A little boy writes a letter to his grandfather about all the reading and studying he is doing this summer--but all his activities revolve around ice cream. FREE Teaching Resources available for download from Follett.com
Book fiesta! : celebrate Children's Day/book day = celebremos el dia de los ninos/el dia de los libros by Mora, Pat  — Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2009 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 3.3. Colorful illustrations and text describe people of various ethnicities and languages enjoying reading. Presented in English and Spanish. 
The library by Stewart, Sarah — Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 3.3. Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
Miss Malarkey leaves no reader behind by Finchler, Judy — Walker, c2006 p2010--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 3.5 Miss Malarkey vows to find each of her students a book to love by the end of the school year, but one video-game loving boy proves to be a challenge. 
Tomas and the library lady by Mora, Pat — Dragonfly Books/A. Knopf ,Distributed by Random House, c1997 p2000--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 3.5 While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library. 
The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by Joyce, William — Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 3.8. Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books, and after a tornado carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them. FREE Teaching Resources available for download from Follett.com--A Reading Group Guide
Shrek! by Steig, William  — Square Fish, c1990 p2008--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 3.9 Horribly hideous Shrek leaves home and terrifies everyone he encounters in his search for his equally ugly bride. 
Wild about books by Sierra, Judy  — Knopf, 2004 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 4.1. A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
Library Lil by Williams, Suzanne  — Puffin Books, c1997 p2001--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 4.2 A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.  
Miss Dorothy and her bookmobile by Houston, Gloria — Harper, 2011--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 4.2 Dorothy has always wanted to work in a library like the red brick one of her girlhood, but after moving to rural North Carolina she discovers that the type of library is less important than the books and the people who read them. 
That Book Woman by Henson, Heather  — Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008--E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 4.5 Young Cal, who lives high in the Appalachian Mountains with his family, does not understand his sister's love for books, but the Book Woman always wanders to their home, and Cal's parents are always willing to trade something to keep Cal's sister reading. 
Once upon an alphabet by Jeffers, Oliver  — Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014 -E-; Int Lvl: K-3; Rd Lvl: 5.0. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a Cup stuck in a cupboard and longing for freedom, this series of interconnected stories and characters explores the alphabet
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