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Author: David Ezra Stein

Genre: Fiction, Picture Book, Bedtime Story, Humour

Age/Audience: Pre-K-1st Grade; This book would be interesting to children who like humor, bedtime stories and learning about manners.

Review: This book is about a Little Chicken who wants her Papa to read her a bedtime story before bed.  However, the little chicken keeps interrupting her dad while he attempts to read her multiple stories before it is bedtime.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 1.13 in Serravallo (2015) because students can pretend they are the little chicken, talk like her and interrupt the stories or read In her voice her bedtime story at the end.

Date Read: August 28, 2020

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The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

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The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend

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Author: Dan Santat

Genre: Fiction

Age/Audience: K-3rd Grade; This book would be interesting to children who like friendship, imaginary friends and exploring the world.

Review: This book is about an imaginary friend named Beekle who desired to be picked by a child and become their friend.  Beekle searched around the world until he finally found a child who needed a friend too.  They became friends and did everything together.

Connect to Serravallo:I could use this book with Activity 1.8 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can connect with Beekle by thinking about how he feels as things occur in the book.

Date Read: September 9, 2020

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Author: Ellen Lawrence

Genre: Non-Fiction, Science, Nature

Age/Audience: Pre-K-2nd Graders; This book would be interesting to children who like nonfiction, frogs, learning about their life cycle and educational facts on frogs.

Review: This book is about the life cycle of a Frog. This book takes the reader through the beginning stage of mating to becoming an Adult Frog.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 9.2 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can read with curiosity and learn new information about frogs from the text, pictures and side facts throughout the book.

Date Read: September 5, 2020

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Author: Vashti Harrison

Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography, Children’s Literature

Age/Audience: K Graders; This book will be interesting to children who desire to do extraordinary things and become leaders/role models in the future.

Review: This book is about great African American Role models.  It encourages its readers to dream to display the great qualities and traits of those great women.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 9.5 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can pause after reading about a few of the characters and think about the facts they learned of one or more famous person that interest them.

Date Read: September 9, 2020

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Author: Todd Arnold

Genre: Fiction, Textbook, Children’s Literature

Age/Audience: Pre-K - 3rd; This book would be interesting to children who like funny stories, friendship and bugs/flys.

Review: This book is about Fly Guy who went searching for food when his friend, Buzz, went to school.  Fly guy became a 50 foot fly.  He and Buzz searched around to figure out what Fly Guy ate that made him so big.  Fly Guy and Buzz were able to get help from a scientist at the end.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 1.15 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can stop and think of how the fly became so huge.  The reader can look at the items the fly ate to help them figure it out.

Date Read: September 9, 2020

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Amelia Bedelia and Friends #1: Beat the Clock

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Amelia Bedelia and Friends #1: Beat the Clock

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Author: Herman Parish

Genre: Fiction

Age/Audience: 6-8 years old; This book would be interesting for children who like friendship, history, laughter and school.

Review: This book is about Amelia Bedelia and her friends.  Amelia, her friends and her community have a centennial party to celebrate their school, Oak Tree Elementary, becoming 100 years old.  At the party, the community opens up a buried time capsule to see what is inside.  Amelia and her friends were able to put something special into the time capsule for the next 100 year centennial.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with activity 6.17 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can understand Amelia’s feelings and actions based on the event surrounding the book.  The reader can understand how the character was influence based on the celebration at school and the time capsule and how it affected the character’s behavior.

Date Read: September 9, 2020

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Author: Jerry Craft

Genre: Comics, Novel, Humour, Fiction, Graphic Novel

Age/Audience: 6th-8th Graders; This book would be interesting to children who are in middle school, feel different than their peers, going to a new school, and trying to understand life.

Review: This book is about a middle schooler named Jordan Banks who starts going to a new prestigious school. Jordan struggles with fitting in among his classmates who look different than him and are from wealthy backgrounds.  Jordan realizes that even though you may be different or alike you can become friends.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 6.12 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can get an understanding of how Jordan feels during certain situations.  The reader can think about why the character feels that way and how they would feel in the same situation.

Date Read: September 12, 2020

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Author: Dav Pilkey

Genre: Comics, Humour, Fiction, Graphic Novel

Age/Audience: 3rd-5th Grade; This book would be interesting to children who likes comics, animals, superheroes, bad guys, life lessons and happy endings.

Review: This book is about a cat named Petey who was once evil but turned good and a police dog.  The dog and the cat learned how to be better and help others.  The cat turned good and learned to see the good in things from his son and Dog man learned how to focus to do his job.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 6.23 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can follow the character of Petey the Cat and try to identify who he is on the inside based upon his actions and words.  The character changes since the beginning of the book and the reader can identify what is truly in his heart as they get to know him while reading.

Date Read: September 12, 2020

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Author: Scott O’Dell

Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

Age: 4th-8th Grade; This book would be interesting to children who like independence, family, friendship and who want to learn survival/hunting techniques.

Review: This book is about a young girl name Karana who becomes trapped on an island by herself.  Karana must survive and use her skills learned to make it through pain, injury and discovery until she is rescued by her family.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 5.4 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can follow the story of Karana as she faces many problems and obstacles until the very end.  The reader can identify all the events that happened to Karana and how it lead to the end result.

Date Read: September 5, 2020

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Be amazing but so Author: Jeff Kinney

Genre: Humour, Young Adult Fiction, Diary Fiction

Age/Audience: 3rd - 7th Grade; This book would be interesting to children who like humor, misfortunate events, moving, middle school, friendship and family.

Review: This book is about a middle schooler named Gregory who writes in his diary.  Gregory’s diary follows the reader through his life after his aunt dies and leaves his family money.  After deciding how to spend the money, Gregory thinks everything will be amazing but things continue getting worst and worst like a wrecking ball.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 6.4 in Serravallo (2015) because the reader can go through the emotional roller coaster of feelings that all the characters display as the book is read.  The reader can state the difference in feelings based in events happening and even difference in the characters‘ feelings.

Date Read: September 11, 2020

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Author: Kevin Henkes

Genre: Novel, Humour, Fiction

Age/Audience: 3rd-7th Grade; This book would be interesting to children who likes the feeling of self accomplishment, friendship, school, family and overcoming your fears.

Review: This book is about a young boy named Billy Miller who is scared to start the second grade.  Billy is a sweet child who doubts himself and struggles with the feelings of not being good or smart enough.  Through everything Billy is able to learn about himself and grow and have the best Year of Billy Miller ever.

Connect to Serravallo: I could use this book with Activity 4.11 in Serravallo (2015) because the readers can express how the character might be feeling by making their voice express the character’s feelings.  Having the reader change their voice while reading allows the reader to connect with the character.  The reader will know how they are feeling during certain situations in the book like how Billy felt when his sister put glitter all over his school project.

Date Read: September 10, 2020