Today is not Tuesday but I thought I might list here the books I plan to include in my Tuesday Treasures posts over the coming months. This list will help me plan my posts and hunt for books to borrow from my friend's wonderful school library and I do have a few in my own collection too. There are a range of Picture Books here from those you might read to children aged 3-5 right through to titles for a senior primary class and beyond.
In Australian school libraries the term for removing books from a collection is weeding. Weeding is an important library housekeeping procedure to make space for new books and to remove damaged copies but hidden among the huge piles of weeding, teachers and teacher librarians, have to keep an eye for for treasures.
Very sadly these titles have recently been weeded from my former library. I hope to use these Tuesday Treasure posts to alert others to the value of each of these titles and in the hope another library might decide to keep these very special books. Some are personal favourites, some have quite important syllabus links, some allow a teacher or teacher librarian to explore the body of work by a particular author or illustrator (especially those by an Australian) and some are just perfect books to read aloud to a class either for a purpose (such as bullying) or just to read for fun. Nearly all of these books are out of print.
Aktil’s Bicycle Ride by Inga Moore
Aktil’s big swim by Inga Moore
Anno’s mysterious multiplying jar by Anno
At home with Tom and Pippo by Helen Oxenbury
Banjo and Ruby Red Red Libby Gleeson
Barty’s Scarf by Sally Chambers
Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka
Bear goes to town Anthony Browne
A book of Letters by Ken Wilson-Max
The boy with two shadows Margaret Mahy
Can I keep him: stories about pets
Dreadful David by Sally Odgers
Jody’s beans by Malachy Doyle
Katherine and the garbage dump by Martha Morris
Leaving Mrs Ellis by Catherine Robinson
Mouse paint by Ellen Walsh
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Walsh
The magic dictionary Bruce Whatley
Marty and Mei Ling by Phil Cummings
My brown bear Barney by Dorothy Butler
Nana upstairs and Nana downstairs by Tomie dePaola
Out and about with Tom and Pippo by Helen Oxenbury
Pancakes for Findus by Sven Nordqvist
Patricia by Stephen Michael King
Pig pig grows up by David McPhaill
Princess Beatrice and the rotten robber by Elizabeth Honey
Q Pootle 5 in Space by Nick Butterworth
Re-Zoom
Rude Ramsay and the roaring radishes by Margaret Attwood
Rummage by Christobel Mattingley
The sad little monster and the jelly bean queen by Kym Lardner
Sam and the Tigers by Julius Lester
Shock Monday by Gillian Bradshaw
So few of me by Peter Reynolds
Six Dinner Sid a Highland adventure by Inga Moore
Susie and Alfred in a welcome for Anne by Helen Craig
Ten tiny things by Meg McKinlay
The time it took Tom by Nick Sharratt
Tin Lizzie and little Nell by David Cox
The tip at the end of the street by Tohby Riddle
Tom and Pippo go for a walk by Helen Oxenbury
Tom and Pippo make a mess by Helen Oxenbury
Tom and Pippo read a story by Helen Oxenbury
The tooth fairy by Peter Collington
The tough Princess by Martin Waddell
Tucking Mummy in by Morag Loh
Vote for Duck by Doreen Cronin
The weird things in Nanna’s house by Ann Maree Mason
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
Whatever by William Bee
You’re all animals by Nicholas Allen
Cornelius P Mud series by Barney Saltzberg
Baloney Henry P by Jon Scieszka
The Boss by Alan Baillie
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