From Cover to Cover (21 page)

Mogilner, Alijandra.
Children’s Writer’s Word Book
. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books, 1992.

Stanley, Sarah, and Brian W. Sturm. “Sequential Art Books and Beginning Readers: Can the Pictures Help Them Decode Words?”
Knowledge Quest
37:2 (November/December, 2008), pp. 50–57.

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Children and Libraries
3:2 (Summer/Fall, 2005), pp. 41, 61.

C
HILDREN’S
B
OOKS
C
ITED

Bauer, Marion Dane.
The Blue Ghost
. A Stepping Stone Book. Illustrated by Suling Wang. New York: Random House, 2005.

Cameron, Ann.
Julian’s Glorious Summer
. A Stepping Stone Book. Illustrated by Dora Leder. New York: Random House, 1987.

—.
More Stories Julian Tells
. Illustrated by Ann Strugnell. New York: Random House, 1989.

—.
The Stories Julian Tells.
Illustrated by Ann Strugnell. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Chaconas, Dori.
Cork & Fuzz
. Viking Easy-to-Read. Illustrated by Lisa McCue. New York: Viking, 2005.

DiCamillo, Kate.
Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride
. Illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2006.

Edwards, Michelle.
Pa Lia’s First Day
. Jackson Friends, Book 1. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, 1999.

Fine, Anne.
The Jamie and Angus Stories
. Illustrated by Penny Dale. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2002.

Haas, Jessie.
Runaway Radish
. Illustrated by Margot Apple. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2001.

Horowitz, Ruth.
Breakout at the Bug Lab
. Dial Easy-to-Read. Illustrated by Joan Holub. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2001.

Lobel, Arnold.
Frog and Toad Are Friends
. An I Can Read Book. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Look, Lenore.
Ruby Lu, Brave and True
. Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf. New York: Anne Schwartz/Atheneum, 2004.

Lottridge, Celia Barker.
Berta: A Remarkable Dog
. Illustrated by Elsa Myotte. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2002.

Milgrim, David.
See Pip Point
. Ready-to-Read. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.

Minarik, Else Holmelund.
Little Bear
. An I Can Read Book. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. New York: Harper & Row, 1957.

Rylant, Cynthia.
Henry and Mudge: The First Book
. Ready-to-Read. Illustrated by Suçie Stevenson. New York: Bradbury, 1987.

Seuss, Dr.
The Cat in the Hat
. Beginner Books. New York: Random House, 1957.

Silverman, Erica.
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa
. Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. San Diego: Harcourt, 2005.

Willems, Mo.
There Is a Bird on Your Head
. An Elephant & Piggie Book. New York: Hyperion, 2007.

CHAPTER 7: FICTION

C
ITATIONS

Anne Carroll Moore quote p. 139 from
My Roads to Childhood
, p. 23.

Louise P. Latimer quote p. 140 from “They Who Get Slapped,” p. 626.

Jacqueline Woodson quotes pp. 153–54, 154–55, 155 from
After Tupac and D Foster,
pp. 24, 14, 62–63.

Kevin Henkes quotes pp. 159, 160, 161 from
Words of Stone
, pp. 17, 77, 52, 7, 1, 113, 151, 85, 84, 40, 116, 23, 41, 40.

Christopher Paul Curtis quote p. 162 from
Bud, Not Buddy
, pp. 93–94.

Christopher Paul Curtis quote p. 162 from
Elijah of Buxton
, p. 80.

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England, Claire, and Adele M. Fasick.
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Johnson, Deidre.
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Latimer, Louise P. “They Who Get Slapped,”
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Lukens, Rebecca J.
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Moore, Anne Carroll.
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Peters, John. “Scary Fun: Stories to Scare Your Socks Off,”
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Vandergrift, Kay E.
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. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1980.

Volz, Bridget Dealy, Cheryl Perkins Scheer, and Lynda Blackburn Welborn.
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C
HILDREN’S
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OOKS
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ITED

Appelt, Kathi.
The Underneath
. Illustrated by David Small. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Avi.
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel
. New York: Orchard Books, 1991.

Broach, Elise.
Masterpiece
. Illustrated by Kelly Murphy. New York: Henry Holt, 2008.

Cleary, Beverly.
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Clements, Andrew.
No Talking
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Collins, Suzanne.
The Hunger Games
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Creech, Sharon.
Walk Two Moons
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Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Bud, Not Buddy
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—.
Elijah of Buxton
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Cushman, Karen.
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
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—.
The Midwife’s Apprentice
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DiCamillo, Kate.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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Erdrich, Louise.
The Birchbark House
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Farmer, Nancy.
The House of the Scorpion
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Fleischman, Paul.
Bull Run
. Illustrated by David Frampton. New York: Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 1993.

Fleming, Candace.
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
. New York: Schwartz & Wade/Random House, 2007.

Frost, Helen.
Diamond Willow
. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.

Gaiman, Neil.
Coraline
. Illustrated by Dave McKean. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Hale, Shannon.
Princess Academy
. New York: Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2005.

Hamilton, Virginia.
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl.
New York: Charlotte Zolotow/Harper & Row, 1983.

Hawes, Charles Boardman.
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Henkes, Kevin.
Bird Lake Moon
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—.
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Holm, Jennifer L.
Babymouse: Queen of the World.
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Law, Ingrid.
Savvy
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Lowry, Lois.
The Giver
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—.
Number the Stars
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O’Connor, Barbara.
How to Steal a Dog
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Orlev, Uri.
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Paulsen, Gary.
Hatchet.
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Philbrick, Rodman.
The Young Man and the Sea
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Preller, James.
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Sachar, Louis.
Holes
. New York: Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.

Selznick, Brian.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures
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Soo, Kean.
Jellaby
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Spinelli, Jerry.
Wringer
. New York: Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, 1997.

Stead, Rebecca.
When You Reach Me
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Taylor, Mildred D.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Woodson, Jacqueline.
After Tupac and D Foster
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CHAPTER 8: WRITING A REVIEW

C
ITATIONS

Virginia Woolf quote p. 165 from “Reviewing,” in
The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays
, p. 130.

Paul Heins quotes pp. 167, 167–68 from “Out on a Limb with the Critics: Some Random Thoughts on the Present State of the Criticism of Children’s Literature,” pp. 269, 268.

Phyllis K. Kennemer quote pp. 173–74 from “Reviews of Fiction Books:
How They Differ,” p. 419.

Betsy Hearne quote p. 175 from “A Reviewer’s Story,” p. 82.

Zena Sutherland quote p. 175 from “A Life in Review,” p. 360.

Kathleen T. Horning quote p. 176 from Review of
Shortcut
by David Macaulay, p. 4.

Deborah Stevenson quote pp. 176–77 from Review of
Me Hungry!
by Jeremy Tankard, p. 356.

Roger Sutton quote p. 177 from Review of
Carl’s Summer Vacation
by Alexandra Day, pp. 432–33.

Ilene Cooper quote pp. 177–78 from Review of
Chicken Little
by Rebecca and Ed Emberley, p. 80.

John Rowe Townsend quote p. 180 from “The Reviewing of Children’s Books,” in
Celebrating Children’s Books
, p. 187.

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—. “What’s New?”
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—. Review of
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