Penny’s Picks for Ideas & Content Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street Roni Schotter The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Chris Van Allsburg Everybody Needs a Rock Byrd Baylor I’m In Charge of Celebrations Byrd Baylor The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: The Second File David Wisnewski Owl Moon Jane Yolen Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Mem Fox You Have to Write Janet Wong All the Places to Love Patricia McLachlan Penny Plavala Multnomah ESD

Penny’s Picks for ORGANIZATION

The Night Iguana Left Home (sequence) by Megan McDonald Knots on a Counting Rope (circle story) by Bill Martin and John Archambault The Diary of a Worm (diary) The Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin The Diary of a Wombat (diary) by Jackie French It's An Ant's Life: My Story of Life in the Nest (scrapbook) by Steve Parker I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat (contrasts) Donald Hall One Dog Canoe (add one + add one, etc.) Mary Casanova Also, any nonfiction book dealing with one subject that has various topics….. for example: Jane Goodall: Protecting Primates (topical) National Geographic Reading Expeditions Penny Plavala Multnomah ESD

Penny’s Picks for Word Choice Night Noises Mem Fox Hello Ocean Pam Munoz Ryan I Love You the Purplest Barbara M. Joosse One Dog Canoe Mary Casanova I Wanna Iguana Karen Kaufman Orloff The Old Woman Who Named Things Cynthia Rylant Wild Child Winter Waits Spring’s Sprung Summer’s Vacation Lynne Plourde

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Penny’s Picks for Voice Sierra Diane Siebert Mohave Diane Siebert The Table Where Rich People Sit Byrd Baylor The Frog Prince - Continued Jon Scieszka The Diary of a Worm The Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin What You Know First Partriica MacLachlan I Wanna Iguana Karen Kaufman Orloff

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Penny’s Picks for Conventions Yo! Yes? Chris Raschka Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Eats, Shoots & Leaves Lynn Truss The Girl’s Like Spaghetti Lynn Truss The Perfect Pop-Up Punctuation Book Kate Petty & Jennie Maizels The Amazing Pop-Up Grammar Book Jennie Maizels & Kate Petty • Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! A Book About Interjections and Conjunctions • Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns • Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs Ruth Heller Penny Plavala Multnomah ESD