Teacher+ideas

This portion will be to share ideas you have about how to share the books published in 2007 with your students.

I will start with my very favorite book published in the year of 2007. The **2008 Caldecott Medal winner** F SEL Selznick, Brian. __The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures.__ 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, c2007. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
 * this book is a combination of many things a graphic novel, fiction, a picture book, a flip book, and having a real movie feel where the black and white pictures moved the narrative rather than going with the narrative. One way of doing this was the illustrator, Brian Selznick illustrated sections of the situation from closer and closer viewpoints. --- Have your students draw a portion of the classroom or outside three or four different times just getting closer and closer.

92 Sis || Sis, Peter. __The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain.__ New York : Farrar, 2007. The **2008 Caldecott Honor Book** and **2008 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book** The author mixes drawings with his personal journal entries and historical references to discuss his childhood, growing up during the Cold War in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
 * Compare a map of 1950's to a map today... why or how were the new countries established?

Grumpy Bird