Creativity – Page 3 – Booktalking #kidlit

Picture Book of the Day

If the World Were a Village – Second Edition: A Book about the World’s People (CitizenKid)

by David J Smith (Author) and Shelagh Armstrong (Illustrator)

Booktalk: If the World Were a Village has been newly revised with updated statistics, several new activities and completely new material on food security, energy and health. By exploring the lives of the 100 villagers, children will discover that life in other nations is often very different from their own.

Snippet:

Welcome to the global village

…what if we imagined that the whole population of the world as a village of just 100 people? In this imaginary village, each person would represent 69 million (69 000 000) people from the real world.

_____________________________________________________________________

Chapter Book of the Day

Haunted Houses The Unsolved Mystery

by Lisa Wade Mccormick (Author)

32 pages

Booktalk: Footsteps echo down empty hallways. Ghostly shadows float across rooms. Are ghosts real? Do they haunt houses and other places? Find out about haunted houses and how science is trying to solve this mystery.

Snippet:

Haunted Fact

One of the earliest ghost stories comes from Ancient Greece. In this story, a ghost in chains walks through a house at night.

_____________________________________________________________________

Nonfiction Monday

Nonfiction Monday

This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up host is Apple with Many Seeds

_____________________________________________________________________

Literary Links

Lerner Publishing’s New iPad App Offers Access to 1,800 eBooks (via @eBookNewser)

My secret for battling procrastination (it’s a 2-step plan!) (via @JaneFriedman)

_____________________________________________________________________

My NEW book, The Zombie Project (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #128)

Picture Book of the Day

Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist (Exceptional Social Studies Titles for Intermediate Grades)

by Gina Capaldi (Adapter, Illustrator) and Q. L. Pearce (Adapter)

Booktalk: Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Sa (which means Red Bird) was born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota. She willingly left her home at age eight to go to a boarding school in Indiana. But Zitkala-Sa soon found herself caught between two worlds–white and Native American.

Snippet:

The IRON HORSE

February 1884

From my playmates I heard that two paleface missionaries from the Land of Red Apples were in our village. They were from that class of white men who wore big hats and carried large hearts. When they came to our house, an interpreter who knew a smattering of my language joined them.

_____________________________________________________________________

Chapter Book of the Day

Vampires (Monster Mania)

by John Malam (Author) and Vincent Boulanger (Illustrator)

32 pages

Booktalk: Unearth all the most chillling legends and mysteries aoubut VAMPIRES! Did you know that vampires have no reflection? Or that Count Dracula was based on a Romanian prince? Or that holly thorns protect against vampires?

Snippet:

The meaning of “vampire”

No one really knows where the word “vampire” comes from. Some say it comes from the Lithuanian word wempti, which means “to drink.” Some say it’s from the Turkish word uber, meaning “witch.”

_____________________________________________________________________

Nonfiction Monday

Nonfiction Monday

This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up host is Simply Science

_____________________________________________________________________

Literary Links

3 Questions Every Creative Person Must Ask (via @JaneFriedman)

6 things every smart home needs #literacy

_____________________________________________________________________

My NEW book, The Zombie Project (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #128)