Literature

A teacher at heart, I love books.  I especially love children's literature.  I find that, in the back of my mind, I am always thinking about how I might use a story in a classroom.  Even though I am not currently teaching, I see opportunities to teach all around me.  And though I could probably read ONLY children's books for the rest of my life, I occasionally mix it up with something else.  However, with a new babe at home, my free time seems to have been shortened and chopped up into short snippets, alternating between cleaning, cooking, bathing, or an occasional nap.  However, I am trying to make more time for reading.  My Goodreads list is growing way faster than I can shorten it so I have some serious work to do.  Here are some recent ones I have read and some of my ideas on how to use them to teach.

Children's Novels
Among the Hidden
The Graveyard Book
Hoot
Inside Out and Back Again
The Sisters Grimm #1: The Fairy-Tale Detectives
The Tale of Despereaux
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Wonder

Picture Books
Creepy Carrots!
Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Goodnight Goon
The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher
A Home For Bird
Little Blue and Little Yellow
LMNO Peas
The Most Magnificent Thing
One Special Day
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Van Gogh and the Sunflowers

Adult Novels
Bringing Up Bébé
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
These Is My Words