LEADERS - Suggested Reading List - Books

Professional Books

• Bishop, Rudine Sims, editor
  Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8
   
• Cunningham, Patricia M.and Richard L. Allington
  Classrooms that Work - They can ALL Read and Write
   
• Delpit, Lisa
  Other People's Children - Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
   
• Eggen, Paul D., and Donald P. Kauchak
  Strategies For Teachers: Teaching Content and Thinking Skills
   
• Faber, Adele, and Elaine Mazlish
  How to Talk so Kids Can Learn At Home and in School
   
• Gambrell, Linda B., Lesley M. Morrow, Susan B. Neuman, and Michael Pressley, editors
  Best Practices in Literacy Instruction
   
• Harris, Violet J., editor
  Teaching Multicultural Literature in Grades K-8
   
• Keene, Ellen Oliver, and Susan Zimmermann
  Mosaic for Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
   
• Kriete, Roxann
  The Morning Meeting Book
   
• McGuinness, Diane
  Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Learn to Do About It
   
• Pressley, Michael
  Reading Instruction that Works - The Case for Balanced Teaching
   
• Ungerleider, Dorothy Funk
  Reading, Writing and Rage
   

Personal Selections

• Becker, Suzy
  The All Better Book
  (asks children how they would solve some of the world's most pressing problems; the answers and insights are humorous)
   
• Canfield, Jack
  Chicken Soup for a Woman's Soul
   
• Flake, Sharon
  The Skin I'm In
  (self-acceptance)
   
• Gardner, Howard
  Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, and others.
   
• Hayden, Torey
  One Child, and others
  (a child is lost until a brilliant young teacher reached out)
   
• Johnson, Spencer, MD
  The Precious Present
   
• Lucado, Max
  In the Grip of Grace
   
• Pelzer, Dave
  A Child Called It
   
• Pelzer, Dave
  A Man Named Dave
  (a survivor of child abuse)
   
• Ruiz, Don Miguel
  The Four Agreements
  (essential steps to personal freedom)
   
• Stewart, Alison
  Worship Team Handbook
   
• Tenny, Tommy
  The God Chasers
   
• Young, Andrea
  Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me
   

Children's Books

• Carlson, Nancy
  I Like Me!
  Viking Press.
   
• Brett, Jan
  The Mitten
  New York: Scholastic
   
• Bulla, Clyde
  Shoeshine Girl
  New York: Harper Trophy
   
• Cameron, Ann
  The Stories Julian Tells
  New York: Random House
   
• Carle, Eric
  The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and others
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Christopher, Matt
  The Hit-Away Kid
  New York: Scholastic
   
• Cole, Joanna
  The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
  New York: Scholastic
   
• Ehlert, Lois
  Growing Vegetable Soup
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Feldman, Davis
  Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise
   
• Freeman, Don
  Corduroy, and others
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Gelman, Rita
  More Spaghetti, I Say
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Hanson, Warren
  The Next Place
  (a book to comfort during a loss)
   
• Havill, Juanita
  Jamaica's Find
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Hoff, Syd
  Danny and the Dinosaur
  New York: Harper Collins
   
• Hoff, Syd
  Who Will Be My Friends?
  New York: Harper Collins
   
• Hurwitz, Johanna
  Class Clown
  New York: Scholastic
   
• Krauss, Ruth
  The Carrot Seed
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Lionni, Leo
  Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse, and others
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Lobel, Arnold
  Frog and Toad are Friends
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Martin, Bill
  Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
  New York: Henry Holt and Company
   
• Mosel, Arlene
  Tikki Tikki Tembo
  New York: Scholastic
   
• Park, Barbara
  Junie B. Jones and her Big Fat Mouth
  New York: Random House
   
• Rowling, J.K.
  The Harry Potter series
   
• Rylant, Cynthia
  Henry and Mudge under the Yellow Moon
  New York: Simon and Schuster
   
• Slobodkina, E.
  Caps for Sale
  New York: Scholastic, Inc.
   
• Williams, Sue
  I Went Walking
  New York: Harcourt Brace and Company
   
• Wiseman, B
  Morris the Moose
  New York: Harper Collins
   
• Ziefert, Harriet
  Jason's Bus Ride
  New York: Puffin Books
   
• Ziefert, Harriet
  Later Rover
  New York: Puffin Books
   

Mentor Texts

• Eve Bunting
  Flower Garden
   
• Willie Perdomo
  Visiting Langston
   
• Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
  I Love My Hair
   
• Donald Crews
  Shortcut
   
• Sharon Jennings
  Into My Mother's Arms
   
• Lenny Hort
  How Many Stars in the Sky
   
• Irene Smalls
  Jonathan and His Mommy
   
• Thomas Locker
  Cloud Dance
   
• Karen Hesse
  Come On, Rain!
   
• Johnathan London
  Puddles
   
• Eloise Greenfield
  Honey, I Love and other love poems
   
• Sheila Homonaka
  All the Colors of the Earth
   
• Eloise Greenfield
  Nathaniel Talking
   
• Bill Martin. Jr. and Michael Sampson
  Swish
   
• George Levinson
  Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
   
• Donald Crews
  Bigmama's
   
• Jim Arnosky
  A Manatee Morning
   
• James Stevenson
  Sweet Corn Poems
   
• Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries
  Are You a Spider?
   
• Jack Knowlton
  Geography from A to Z, A Picture Glossary
   
• Seymour Simon
  Sharks
   
• Joy Cowley
  Red-Eyed Tree Frog
   
• Gail Gibbons
  Weather Words and What They Mean
   
• Tomie de Paola
  The Cloud Book
   
• Jim Arnosky
  All About Owls
   
• Gail Gibbons
  Bats
   
• Margie Burton, Cathy French, and Tammy Jones
  Animals' Eyes and Ears
   

For further lists and information see the Children's Literature section of the LEADERS Links Page.