The Teachers' Choices Project: K-2

The Teachers' Choices Project 2009 illuminates the idea that good book reach out and tap us on the shoulder to get our attention. Each year since 1989, the International Reading Association's Teachers' Choice project has identified outstanding trade books, published for children and adolescents, that teachers find exceptional for curriculum use. Parents, also, will find books good for reading aloud. Below are some of the books recommended:

Grades K-2, Ages 5-8



1. The Best Story, by Eileen Spineli. Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf
2. Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, by Andrea Davis Pinkey. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney
3. First Dog Fala, by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk. Illustrated by Michael G. Montgomery
4. Frogs, by Nic Bishop
5. Grace for President, by Kelly DiPucchio. Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
6. Looking Closely Along the Shore, by Frank Seranfini
7. Planting Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, by Chaire A. Nivola
8. Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival, by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery. Illustrated by Jean Cassels
9. Yoko Writes Her Name, by Rosemary Wells
10. Manfish: a Story of Jacues Cousteau, b Jennifer Berne. Illustrated by Eric Puybaret

Tomorrow I will list the intermediate readers choice grades 3-5.