Author Profiles

Eric Carle is an amazing author. I actually own a few of these books. Some of my favorites are “The Very Hungary Caterpillar, “Baby Bear Baby Bear What Do You See? and “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. These are fantastic books to read to the little ones. They really get into the books. In one of my classroom observations I was looking at the books the teacher had for her students to read and a lot of the books were Eric Carle’s books.

http://www.eric-carle.com

Marc Brown is the author of the “Arthur” books. As a kid I was always into the show Arthur on PBS. Little did I know that there were books out based on the TV Show. I have a collection of “Arthur” books, which really do come in handy with lessons. This is an excellent series of books and as a child I know that I really got into reading them and watching it on TV.

http://pbskids.org/arthur/

Author Profiles

R. L. Stein was the author of the book series Goosebumps. My brother was the one who got me started reading these books. He would often read them to me or my mom would read us a chapter a night. These books would keep us on the edge of our seats. My brother used to try to tell me that these books were based on true events little did I know that he was lying to me. My brother and I were really into the books that we actually have the whole series of the Goosebumps.

http://www.rlstine.com

The Berenstain Bear’s is still a popular series of books today. When I was doing some of my school observations the teacher was reading one of the books to the class. The kids asked me if I had ever read them and I replied yes. These books are still good books to read today. As a kid I know I enjoyed reading them.

http://www.berenstainbears.com/splash.html

Author Profiles

My senior year in High School part of our research project was to read “The World Is Flat” by Tomas Friedman. Honestly I never finished reading the book. I had gotten from my brothers friend the book on CD’s so I listened to it. The book talked about how we are in an economic disadvantage. It also explained how some McDonalds the person in the store it is being taken in for example Africa isn’t taking the orders. They are having foreign people take over stuff Americans can do. This book makes you open your eyes and see that a lot of our stuff is being sent off and being done.

http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/the-world-is-flat

One of my childhood favorites is “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch. My mother used to read this to me every night when I was a child. The author wrote this book for his two babies that died at birth. This book is actually a song. Whenever I have children I want to read this to them as well. This was a good way as a parent to grow a bond with your child.

http://www.robertmunsch.com/books.cfm?bookid=40

Author Profiles

Beverly Cleary books were probably the ones that I couldn’t put down. As a child I used to love to read and now I really dislike reading. As a child I loved the Ramona series. One of my favorites was “Ramona The Pest”. When I went to our school library our librarian always had out books that we would probably enjoy reading. So I often read off of what our librarian thought we would like. Beverly Cleary books were always there. Another story I remember is Beezus and Ramona.

http://www.beverlycleary.com/index.html

Once I got to Junior High I began reading books by Meg Cabot. These were the books that you often had to put on hold in order to read them. My favorite ones to read were The Princess Diaries Series. I only read the first four out of the series but they were some of the best books I have ever read. Now that I think about it I think that I want to start reading the series again because I got so into them in Junior High.

http://www.megcabot.com/

One of my favorite Authors is Lois Duncan. One of the books she wrote “Who Killed My Daughter” is actually based on a true story. It is about the ongoing investigation of the murder of the Duncan’s daughter. Her books are very catchy and keep you reading for hours.

http://loisduncan.arquettes.com/index.htm

Dr. Seuss is an amazing author. I still enjoy reading the books today. Since it is getting closer to Christmas I often think about How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Then there are my all time favorite “The Cat In The Hat”. Dr. Seuss wrote amazing books, which all children enjoy. Some of the books have even been made into movies.

http://www.seussville.com/

Group 4 Genre Presentations

Today was the last day of Presentations. The first group did their presentation over the book “Magda Tortillas.” They made a video of the story, which was really creative because they made tortillas in the different shapes. They actually made some tortillas so that we could have some after they finished their presentation. The last presentation was about a murder mystery and they explained it with a PowerPoint. The group work was fun then they handed us out party poppers and a piece of paper with clues on Then they read it out loud to us and we were trying to figure out what it was. When we figured it out we took our sticky notes to the board and we read it out loud. Lastly we got to pop our party poppers. I really enjoyed getting to do these presentations since every group had different ideas I know that this will help me when I begin teaching.

Group 3 Genre Presentations

My Group presented this day. I think my whole group was nervous about this. The first group to present did it over Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree. This was a really great project. They created a PowerPoint that was the story of The Giving Tree. This was awesome. They then told us that there is an actual narration by Shel Silverstein reading the book but they said it’s really slow. The next group did their presentation over Lemony Snickett. I really liked this presentation because I love reading these books. Then the boys in the group played a little hangman game with us and we completed it with a contest of who could do the fastest word search.