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Book Title:

Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

Your Rating (1-5) and why:

Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
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Monday, March 26, 2012

The Neighborhood Mother Goose

Book Title: The Neighborhood Mother Goose

Author(s): Nina Crews

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Nina Crews

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Copyright Date: 2004

Genre: Poetry

Brief Annotation: Nina Crews takes 41 of Mother Goose’s original nursery rhymes and adds her own twist to the illustrations. She uses photographs from around her Brooklyn neighborhood and new contemporary ways of looking at the nursery rhymes.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 5 – It takes a different way of reading traditional, familiar nursery rhymes that are more relatable for young children.

Readers who will like this book: Young children who enjoy the typical nursery rhymes and like to like to memorize and reread stories will enjoy this book.

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: Who knows one of Mother Goose’s familiar nursery rhymes?

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): Kindergarten

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 1.8

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