THE
following books and authors are mentioned in Jim
Trelease's film. A more comprehensive list (1100
titles) can be found in the "Treasury of Read-Alouds," in
THE READ-ALOUD HANDBOOK, and at his Web site: www.Trelease-on-reading.com/rah-treasury-pic1.html.
Titles are listed below in the order of their appearance
in the full-length film (Teacher-Parent, 97 min.
version). The Parent video is 63 minutes and contains
slightly fewer titles. This list may be freely
reproduced with proper credit. (NOTE: Only bold-faced
titles are mentioned or shown in the film; the
other titles are included as supplementary.)
BOOK CODING:
(N) novel; (P) picture
book; (PO) poetry; (SN)
short novel; (R) research
DISCLAIMER NOTICE Inclusion of a title on the following lists
is based solely on a book's merits or Jim
Trelease's personal preference and has
nothing to do with financial arrangements
or agreements, of which there are none.
The
Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease (Penguin) (R)
Becoming a Nation of Readers(U.S.
Dept. of Education, 1985) (R)
The
Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl (Knopf) (P)
Meaningful
Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young
American Children by Drs. Betty Hart and
Todd Risley,
(Brookes Pub. / Baltimore,
MD) (R)
No,
No, Jo! by
Kate and Jim McMullan (Harper) (P)
Lester's
Dog by Karen Hesse (Crown) (P)
How
to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell (Dell) (N)
Preventing
Reading Difficulties in Young Children, from National
Research Council (National
Academy Press, Washington, DC) (R)
How
in the World Do Students Read? by Warwick B. Elley (International
Assoc. for the Evaluation of Ed. Achievement);
copies: International Reading Assoc., Newark, DE
(R)
NAEP
1992 Trends in Academic Progress (ETS/
U.S. Department of Education) (R)
The
Power of Reading by Stephen
Krashen (Heinemann/Libraries
Unlimited) (R);
this 100-page paperback is the definitive
book on SSR (or Free Voluntary Reading) and
it's effects on reading achievement. Related
books on the effects of the print environment/climate
on reading: The
Literacy Crisis: False Claims, Real Solutions by
Jeff McQuillan (Heinemann
Books) (R);
The Impact of School
Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement by Keith Curry Lance,
Lynda Welborn, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell (Hi
Willow Research, Castle Rock, CO) (R)
The
Secret Garden by Frances H. Burnett (N)
Spot (series)
by Eric Hill (Putnam) (P)
Where
the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Doubleday) (N);
also by the author: Summer
of the Monkeys (N). Highly
recommended dog novels: Call
of the Wild by Jack London; A
Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace; Foxy by
Helen Griffiths; Kavik the
Wolf Dog by Walt Morey; Lassie-Come-Home by
Eric Knight; Old Yeller and Savage
Sam by
Fred Gipson; and the "Shiloh trilogy": Shiloh;
Saving Shiloh; and Shiloh Season, all by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Nana
Upstairs & Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola
(Putnam) (P)
The
Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
(Scholastic) (P)
Supercharged
Infield; Skateboard Tough; and The
Twenty-One Mile Swim,
all by Matt Christopher (Little,Brown) (SN);
Other sports novels: Hang
Tough, Paul Mather; and Finding
Buck McHenry, both
by Alfred Slote (Harper) (N)
Backfield
Package; Soccer Duel; Rebound Caper, by Thomas J. Dygard (Morrow/Puffin)
(N)
Gifted
Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Dr. Ben Carson (Zondervan) (R); also: Think
Big by Dr. Ben Carson
My
First Word Book by Angela Wilkes (Dorling-Kindersley) (P);
also recommended: The
Little Dog Laughed and Other Nursery Rhymes from
Mother Goose by Lucy Cousins (Viking/Puffin) (P/PO)
Where the
Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (Harper);
also by the author: A Light in the Attic; and Falling
Up (all Harper) (all PO); also by the author: Lafcadio
the Lion Who Shot Back (SN)
Deep
in the Forest by
Brinton Turkle—wordless
(Dutton/Puffin) (P)
Little
Red Riding Hood by Schart Hyman (Holiday) (P)
Flossie
and the Fox by Patricia McKissack (Dial) (P)
Lon Po
Po by Ed Young (Philomel) (P)
The
True Story of the Three Little Pigs by
John Scieszka (Viking/Puffin) (P);
other recommended fairy tale picture book parodies: Cinder-Elly by
Frances Minters; Jim & the Beanstalk by
Raymond Briggs; The Three Little Javelinas by
Susan Howell; The Three Little Wolves and
the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Travizas; The
Rough-Face Girl retold by Rafe Martin
Horton
Hatches the Egg; I Do Not Want to Get Up Today;
The King's Stilts; I Had Trouble in Getting to
Solla Sollew; If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss
(Random House) (P)
Eli;
Fly Homer Fly; The Whingdingdilly; Pamela Camel;
Buford the Little Bighorn; Bill Peet: An Autobiography,
all by Bill Peet (Houghton)
My
Father's Dragon;
sequels: Elmer and the Dragon;
and The
Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Knopf) (SN)
Frindle by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster) (SN)
Stone
Fox by John
Reynolds Gardiner (Harper) (SN).
Other short novels: A Blue-Eyed
Daisy by Cynthia
Rylant (Simon & Schuster) ; Stargone
John by
Ellen Kindt McKenzie (Holt);
and Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith (Dell)
FULL NOVELS
James
and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (Knopf/Puffin) (N);
also by the author: The
BFG (N); Danny the Champion
of the World (N); Fantastic
Mr. Fox (SN); The Minpins (P);
and The
Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (N)
Peter
Panby J. M. Barrie (Viking
Ariel) (N) (for
experienced listeners) *
Bambi by Felix
Salten (Simon & Schuster) (N)
Charlotte's
Web by
E. B. White (HarperCollins) (N);
also by the author: Stuart Little. Highly
recommended animal-fantasy novels: Babe
the Gallant Pig by
Dick King-Smith; Cricket
in Times Square by
George Selden; Pearl's Promise by Frank
Asch; Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.
S. Lewis (series) (Macmillan)
The
Indian in the Cupboard; sequels: The
Return of the Indian; The Secret of the Indian;
The Mystery of the Cupboard;
and The Key to the Indian all
by Lynn Reid Banks (Avon) (N)
Hatchet by
Gary Paulsen (Puffin) (N);
sequels: The River; Brian's
Winter; Brian’s
Return; and Brian’s
Hunt; also GUTS. (See author
profile at this Web site.) Other novels
by Paulsen: Tucket's Travels; The Foxman;
The Car; The Crossing; Dogteam; The Island; Nightjohn and
its sequel, Sarny: A Life Remembered;
Monument; The Rifle; Sentries; A Soldier's Heart;
The Tent; Tracker; The Transall Saga (time-travel
novel); and a survival-at-sea novel, The
Voyage of the Frog. Also recommended: an excellent
study/volume by Prof. Gary M. Salvner, Presenting Gary Paulsen (Twayne
Publishers/Simon
& Schuster Macmillan/NY, NY) (R)
The
Cay by Theodore
Taylor (Doubleday) (N); sequel—Timothy
of the Cay
VOICES
OF READERS: How
We Come to Love Books by G. Robert Carlsen, Anne
Sherrill (NCTE, Urbana,
IL) (R)
Cousins
in the Castle; and Sparrows
in the Scullery, both by Barbara
Brooks Wallace (Atheneum) (N)
Hey!
Listen to This, anthology,
edited by Jim Trelease, with author profiles
(Penguin)
, anthology, edited by Jim Trelease,
with author profiles (Penguin)
"The
Power of the Powerless: A Brother's Lesson," essay
by Christopher deVinck, opening paragraphs
read by Jim Trelease in video, from anthology Read
All About It!
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