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Welcome to the CD 4 Book list!

You are expected to write a minimum of five brief book reviews for this page. NO book may be repeated! If there are numbers listed under a category (eg, 10 counting books for math), and all 10 books have been filled in, you will need to find books for a category that is not yet filled in.

At the end of the semester, we will have created a listing of 150 - 200 quality children's books about math, science and social studies, as well as children's literature books.

Here is the format that we will be using. Please be sure to check out the examples below.

Author. Title, Publication year. Fiction/Non-Fiction

Two to three sentence summary of book.

One sentence description of visuals in book (illustration description/photograph/collage?)

Themes in book.

Why book should be included on our list.

Example:

Literature

1. Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are,  1963. Fiction

This is a story where Max pretends to visit a place where he is made king of the Wild Things. But Max misses home and so he pretends to sail home and winds up back in his own room.

Illustrations in what looks like pen and watercolor, very whimsical.

Themes are imagination, creativity and power.

We should include this book in our 'literature' section for a few reasons. It is a classic book that encourages children to use their imaginations to reach beyond the confines of their situations. Max has the power to imagine himself to be anywhere he wants to be.

2. Wiesner, David. "The Three Pigs." 2001 Fiction