Scholastic Book fair
Oh it's that time of year again and we are hosting the Scholastic Book Fair this week. I found a couple of books there that I really liked and I can't wait to share them with the kids. The first one is a picture book. It's called "I Wish You More" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Tom Litchenheld. It's a very pretty picture book about wishing positive intent for someone else. It's full of little truisms like "I wish you more will than hill." or "I wish you more Woo Hoo! than Whoa!". What's really great about this one is that you can read this one a million times for lots of different reasons. One teacher I showed it to wanted to give it as a gift to her pregnant daughter. One wanted to give it to her partner on their five year anniversary. One kindergarten teacher looked at it and said it would be great for teaching beginning sounds and another teacher thought it would make a great mentor text for writing. See wh...