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Classic Reader: Elsie's Children by Martha Finley

For Students 4th - 8th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Elsie's Children, the sixth book from the late 1800's series, "Elsie Dinsmore." This series was written by Martha Finley.
Handout
University of Pennsylvania

African Children's Literature for Elementary Grades

For Students 3rd - 5th
Here is a list of primary and elementary African children's books. Author, Title, subject, and a short summary are included.
Lesson Plan
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Looking Critically at Picture Books

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
This site describes several ideas and activities to use with picture books and intermediate/middle school age students. Specific title to use are also given.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Snowflake Bentley

For Students 3rd - 5th
This review of "Snowflake Bentley" written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Mary Azarian features related activities for this Caldecott medal winning book.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: If You Give a Moose a Muffin

For Students 3rd - 5th
This teacher resource includes a review of Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Moose a Muffin, things to notice in the book and discuss, and related learning activities and links.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: The Castle in the Attic

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides a review of the book "The Castle in the Attic" by Elizabeth Winthrop. It also features ideas for activities and a list of related books.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Bird Watch: A Book of Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is on the book "Bird Watch" by Jane Yolen. It includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to other resources.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Dandelions

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site on the book "Dandelions" by Eve Bunting, includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to other resources.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Math Out Loud

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides a listing of books with songs, poems, and folk tales featuring math concepts for making the connection between math and our culture.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

For Students 4th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1888). This is a new translation from the original by Mrs. H.B. Paull; with original colored illustrations and...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bessie, the Blackberry Gatherer Society for Christian Knowledge

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bessie, the Blackberry Gatherer, or, What Trying May Do from The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [1870]. This is a children's Christian novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Aaron in the Wildwoods

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Aaron in the Wildwoods by Joel Chandler Harris, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Cracker Bon Bon for Christmas Parties by Robert B. Brough

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Baldwin Library: A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas Parties by Robert B. Brough (1861). This is a collection of short witty plays, poetry, and character sketches.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Indian History for Young Folks by Francis S. Drake

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Indian History for Young Folks by Francis S. Drake (c1884), the history of the Native Americans.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Domestic Animals by Mc Loughlin Bros.

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Domestic Animals by McLoughlin Bros. (1884), a nonfiction book of illustrated stories about domestic animals.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Cedwalla, Or, the Saxons in the Isle of Wight by Frank Cowper

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Caedwalla, or, The Saxons in the Isle of Wight by Frank Cowper (1888). It is an illustrated adventure story.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: "Mary's Meadow" by Juliana Horatia Ewing

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Mary's Meadow or Letters from a Little Garden by Juliana Horatia Ewing (1886), an illustrated novel.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Jean Fritz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover more about the children's author Jean Fritz, whose work often combines literature and history.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Past meets present in this lesson in which learners practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Other

Nancy Polette: "The Whipping Boy" Literature Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A booktalk, sample vocabulary activity and a writing activities are the features of this brief literature guide by author and former librarian Nancy Polette.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Ww Ii as Seen Through Children's Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This interdisciplinary unit plan relies on children's literature about World War II. Bibliographies for both students and teachers are included as well as a rationale for the unit. Includes links to resources.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Pictures and Songs for Children by Thomas Nelson & Sons

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Pictures and Songs for Children by Thomas Nelson & Sons (1865), a collection of children's songs and poetry.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Lectures to Children: Illustrating Important Truth by John Todd

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Lectures to Children: Familiarly Illustrating Important Truth by John Todd (1866), a book of sermons for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Lectures to Children: Second Series by John Todd

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Lectures to Children: Familiarly Illustrating Important Truth: Second Series by John Todd (1866), a book of sermons for children.

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