Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week that Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation, written by Rebecca Burns
Jam packed with information about the week after King was killed. It explains how a city overcome with grief and steeped in racial tensions managed to hold itself together and host the thousands of people who came for the funeral, even while riots were were breaking out and record-breaking numbers of U.S. troops were deployed in other American cities.
Animals of the Bible, text selected by Helen Dean Fish and illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop
Caldecott, 1938. The text of this book is selected Bible verses and the illustrations are black and white.
The Story of Mankind, written and illustrated by Hendrick Van Loon
Newbery, 1922. I was not expecting the first Newbery book to be a nearly 500 page history textbook. Ay yi yi! If we didn't read a lot of history for school, then I'd have read it. But we do. So I skimmed it and called it good.
Abraham Lincoln, written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Caldecott, 1940. The story of Lincoln's childhood and rise to the presidency.
Make Way for Ducklings, written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey
Caldecott, 1942. We have this story in our copy of The Children's 20th Century Children's Book Treasury, though I read it again as I'm going through the Caldecott list, and it's been a favorite of each kid as we've read it for school.
In Grandma's Attic, written by Arleta Richardson and illustrated by Dora Leder
Read aloud for Naomi. Each chapter is a story about the author's grandmother's childhood.
Daughter of the Mountains, written by Louise Rankin and illustrated by Kurt Wiese
Read aloud for Silas and Devon. The fictional story of a Tibetan girl who walks to India in order to find her dog, which was stolen for the purpose of selling.
Shadow Spinner, written by Susan Fletcher
Read aloud for Silas and Devon, though I read it myself and they listened to it on CD. The fictional story of a two girls - one whose life is spared by the Sultan each day, assuming she can come up with a new story to tell him that he finds entertaining, and another who becomes responsible for finding stories for the first. This has been one of my favorite books of the year and the boys also enjoyed it.
The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum
Read aloud for Naomi, though we listened to it together on CD. Pretty sure everyone knows what this book is about. :)
Mei Lei, written and illustrated by Thomas Handforth
Caldecott, 1939. A young Chinese girl finds a way out of her rural home to attend a New Years fair in the city.
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Wizard of Oz is the one book to which I prefer the movie. But it's still a fun read.
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