Children's Literature Picture Books Allard, Harry and Term Paper

Children's Literature

Picture Books

Allard, Harry and James Marshall. Miss Nelson Is Missing. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Print.

Miss Nelson is a non-threatening instructor whose students take advantage of her gentle personality by misbehaving. One day Miss Nelson disappears and is replaced by an ill-tempered substitute, Miss Viola Swamp, who makes the children appreciate their good-natured teacher. The book is designed for primary and early elementary readers.

Beaumont, Karen. I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! Florida: Harcourt, Inc. 2005. Print.

A little boy has been caught and chastised for decorating his home with a box of paints. His mother takes the paint set away from him and tells him, "Ya ain't gonna paint no more!" He soon reacquires the box of paints and becomes busily engaged in painting himself from head to toe. Preschool children will enjoy this book.

Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. New York: Collins Publishers. 1979. Print.

A young caterpillar hatches out of an egg and begins a voracious eating journey. The book teaches the days of the week by having the caterpillar eat something different each day. The caterpillar grows, becomes fat, builds a cocoon, and in two weeks it emerges as a butterfly. This book will appeal to preschoolers and early readers.

Cronin, Doreen. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. 2000. Print.

Farmer Brown's cows and hens find an old typewriter in the barn and start leaving him demands. When they don't get what they want, they go on strike. The book is geared towards a K-2 audience.

Lehman, Barbara. The Red Book. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2004. Print.

This wordless picture book is about a series of characters that interact through the pages of a magical book that has the power to transport them to different places.A young girl in a city finds a book in a snowdrift and rescues it. In the book, she reads about a boy who rescues a red book on a beach. He opens the book and reads about a girl in a city, who is reading about him. The adventure continues until the book is lost and found by a different child, who begins an entirely new adventure. This story is designed for preschool children.

Long, Melinda and David Shannon. How I Became a Pirate. San Diego: Harcourt. 2003. Print.

Jeremy Jacob is spending an innocent day at the beach with his family when he is invited to join a pirate crew. Jeremy agrees as long as he is back in time for soccer practice the next day. He learns pirate language, pirate manners, and sea chanteys and initially thinks that the life of a pirate is great fun, but he soon learns that it isn't all he had hoped for. This story is designed for primary and early elementary level students.

Martin, Rafe. The Shark God. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books. 2001. Print.

In this retelling of an old Hawaiian folktale, two native children save a shark from death when it washes up on the shallows, but they soon offend their king and are sentenced to death, despite the pleas of their parents. In desperation, they call upon the Shark God for help. This book will appeal to primary and early elementary level readers.

O'Connor, Jane. Fancy Nancy. New York: HarperCollins. 2006. Print.

Nancy is a little girl who wants everything to be over the top. She wears frilly clothes, uses elegant language,….....