Book Recommendations
Adult Book Recommendations
Children's Book Recommendations - Children's picture books recommended by Cherice Montgomery
Children's Book Recommendations - Children's picture books recommended by Cherice Montgomery
Children's Literature
Children's Book Lists
- A yearly award given for the "children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States"
Children's Book Awards - A list of English-language children's book awards from countries like Australia, England, and New Zealand, as well as the U.S.
- Searchable database
- Publishes yearly reading lists based on children's choices, teachers' choices, and young people's choices
- An organization devoted to "exploring world literature and children's literature in translation"
- A list of picture books in a variety of languages from countries around the world, selected by librarians
- A list of picture books in a variety of languages from countries around the world, selected by librarians
- Publishes a list of outstanding international books each year
Story Creation Tech Tools
- Very simple, easy-to-use interface allows you to upload or draw images, add text, record your voice, then play and even embed your story
- Read myths and legends, or create your own in multiple languages using these cool tools. Does require registration.
- Select illustrations from real children's picture book illustrators, then use them to illustrate your own, original stories.
- Create and illustrate stories, save them, embed them, and share them. Student-created stories can be viewed in other languages such as French, Polish, and Spanish by clicking on the library link.
Videos of Children's Literature
Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg - Set to music while child hands show how the pop-up flaps operate
Giraffes Can't Dance - With turn the page signals
If You Love to Read (Rolling in the Deep Parody) - Watch on Viewpure
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty (Also, see this brief 37-second clip in which the author herself reads the final punch line from the book)
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Version with music, but illustrations and sound are not as clear as in the previous one)
Starry Night (Interactive Animation) - Used with In the Garden with Van Gogh
Stop & Hear the Music: Stradivarius Violinist Joshua Bell - DC Metro - Used with the book The Man with the Violin
Stories Convey Culture - Less than 3% of all children's books produced in the world are translated into English. That makes it difficult for us as Americans to step outside of our own "boxes."
Stereotypes Flatten Experience - Tell about a time when someone "flattened your experience" by viewing or interpreting you through the lens of a stereotype.
The Empty Pot by Demi - An audio version of the book
The Matchbox Diary Book Trailer - Beautiful example of a well-designed book trailer
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires (Stop Motion Video made by students from illustrations in the book)
The Noisy Paintbox Book Trailer - Don't be fooled by the fact that it begins in black and white!
Recipes
White Texas Sheet Cake (this is the one that was flavored with almond extract)
Scriptures
2 Nephi 9:28-29 - "When they are learned, they think they are wise"
Matthew 13:34 - Parables
D&C 88:118 - "Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom...seek learning, even by study and also by faith"
Philippians 4:8 - "Whatsoever things are true...think on these things"
Articles of Faith 1:13 - "If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things"
Alma 37:6 - "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise"
Matthew 13:34 - Parables
D&C 88:118 - "Seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom...seek learning, even by study and also by faith"
Philippians 4:8 - "Whatsoever things are true...think on these things"
Articles of Faith 1:13 - "If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things"
Alma 37:6 - "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise"
Spiritual Thought
by Heather Church
The BEST book (The Book of Mormon)
The BEST book (The Book of Mormon)
Stories About Book of Mormon Experiences
Children's Class
Games