Tuesday Treasure
I Like Books (1988) is surely the perfect book to share with your youngest students at the start of a school year. It can then be used as a springboard to sharing all the different kinds of books you and your students enjoy reading.
Take a close look at this double page. There are so many layers to the fairy tale page. Our hero wears a red cape (Little Red Riding Hood); look at the shadow (the wolf) and a basket of goodies (books). On the nursery rhyme page Humpty Dumpty looks worried because the book our hero holds has a 'fried' egg on the cover. There are also eggs positioned in each corner.
Which books do you enjoy: funny books, scary books, comic books, colouring books, counting books, alphabet books, books about space and books about pirates. Make sure you spend some time look at the strange book and then compare with with Through the Magic Mirror another Anthony Browne gem. Take a look at this animation of the whole book.
The page where I would spend the most time is
fat books ...
and thin books
Young students just gaining reading confidence sometimes think reading a fat book is a mark of status or intelligence. I love to share very slim volumes from my school library which contain powerful, interesting and complex stories.
The companion volume to I like Books is Things I Like (1989). It would be good to read these side by side.
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