Great Books for Literature Circles

• Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature (http://www.dawcl.com)
• Picture Book Database at Miami University (http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/)
• Themed Literature Units ~ Seattle University MIT Program (http://classes.seattleu.edu/masters_in_teaching/teed521/professor/literacy/MITexample.html)
• Living In This World With Hope: Book list from my keynote address to the Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE) Conference in Seattle, Washington in July, 2006.

Books Shown in the Workshop

Sister Anne's Hands by Marybeth Lorbiecki; ill. by K. Wendy Popp. New York: Puffin, 2000.
(Order a copy from Queen Anne Books!)

Picture Books Photo

• Freedom School, Yes! by Amy Littlesugar; ill. by Floyd Cooper
• Teammates by Peter Gollenbock
• If a Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold
• I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas; ill. by Floyd Cooper
• Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
• This Land is My Land by George Littlechief
• What You Know First by Patricia MacLachlan; ill. by Barry Moser
• White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman; ill. by Tyrone Geter
• Granddaddy's Gift by Margaree King Mitchell
• Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell; ill. by Brian Pinkney

Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward; ill. by Tomie dePaola

Homeless Children literature circles unit