Children's Book and Media Review

Volume 21 Issue 2 Article 2

2000

Pairing Books

Nancy Livingston

Lillian H. Heil

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by N aney Livingston Associate Professor Emeritus and Lillian H. Heil Professor Emeritus Brigham Young University

Note: Complete bibliographic information on example, Tacky the Penguin, a fictional book, is books mentioned in this article is found on pages too far-fetched and fantastic to be enriched by an three and four. informational book about penguins. First graders will make connections between Those familiar with the saYIng "Truth is their own neighborhoods and neighborhoods in stranger than fiction" can add another truth and Australia. Useful books about Australia include fiction saying to their list. Fact enriches fiction Kangaroos and Koalas: What They Have in and fiction makes fact memorable. Think about Common and Look What Came From Australia. it. Facts enrich fiction by providing information These could be paired with the story of Koala about such things as history, places, scientific Lou. concepts, or people. Adding this information Second graders learning about how enriches the story because the reader becomes communities change over time will explore the more familiar with facts used in the story. On community of Oueslessebougou in Mali, Africa, the other hand, not knowing some facts may where the deserts are similar to those in raise questions in the reader's mind that could be Southern Utah. Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, found in a factual book. For example: Can an Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies, a animal act that way? Does the story portray factual book about desert animals, could be history accurately? What is the appearance of paired with Jim Arnosky's playful picture book the location of the story? Fiction makes also entitled Rattlesnake Dance. historical events come to life and paints word Third graders will be comparing Incas of pictures of animals, places, and things within the South America to Indians of North America. context of an interesting story. Why not use There are few fiction or informational books them together to enrich and make learning more about North or South American Indians suitable memorable for young readers? For Utah parents, for third grade, but here are some possibilities. teachers, and librarians, the new state social Russell Freedman's Children of the Wild West studies curriculum provides an opportunity to try contains a well-written chapter about the Indians this idea. After a five-year review of the old of North America. Chet Cunningham has written curriculum, the new theme is to make global a short biography of Crazy Horse, but it may be connections prior to sixth grade. too difficult for most third graders. Powwow is a Kindergartners learning about small wonderful full-color photo essay giving a real communities will compare Utah's and feel for the exuberant Indian celebration. Antarctica's seasons and animals. Into the Ice: Children's Press has published a set of nine The Story of Arctic Exploration is a good books on American Indians, including one on introduction to the arctic. Antarctica, by Helen families, festivals, foods, and games, as well as Cowcher, shows wonderful informational books about Pueblos, Shawnees, Utes, pictures of penguins in Antarctica. Antarctic Wampanoags and Zunis. Inca Town and Lost Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems puts Treasure of the Inca could be paired with these information and action into poetic form. One books. Other books about the Incas include Tim caution when pairing a fiction book with Wood's picture book The Incas, and Children of nonfiction is a title alone will not indicate how the Incas, which includes photographs of the well the two books will pair with each other. For Peruvian Indians of today. Teachers might use

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the informational books available to set the stage about discovering the past through science and for an activity in which children write fictional technology. The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone stories about the Indians in North and South would be useful in the study of ancient cultures America. and could be paired with the new picture book Fourth graders studying Utah will also study Seeker of Knowledge: the Man Who Deciphered Asia, because there are several connections Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Diane Stanley and Peter between Asia and Utah. Chinese immigrants Vennema's biography of Cleopatra could also be helped build the railroad, and citizens of used in the study of Egypt. For the study of Japanese ancestry were sent to internment camps Greece, Paul Fleishman's collection of myths, in Utah during World War II. Some factual Dateline Troy, could be paired with a factual books that relate to China are Asian-Americans book on ancient Greece, such as How Would in the Old West and Henry Pluckrose's China. A You Survive as An Ancient Greek? fictional book from China is Lon po po: A Red- Adults interested in sharing books with Riding Hood Tale from China. Fourth graders young readers can pair fiction and informational might also explore the impact of the gold rush books on topics other than those suggested in the on the settlement of the West in the new Utah curriculum for social studies. A informational book The Great American Gold possibility for older grades is using the factual Rush, and the fictional books Orphan Runaways book Killer Whale, with Moby Dick. This could and Boom Town. Gold Fever: Tales from the even be adapted by using Allan Drummond's California Gold Rush is based on journals and picture book version of Moby Dick. quotes from people who participated in the gold Possibilities for younger grades include rush and would make another excellent books about water. Jonathan London's Puddles informational book. can be used with the informative Water Book. Fifth graders will study Canada and Mexico (The use of McPhail's The Puddle is not advised while learning about United States history and because it does not talk about water.) Another government. The factual book Rio Grande: topic for younger grades is city markets with the From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of fictional Peppe, the Lamplighter, paired with Mexico can be paired with Sherry Garland's Market, the Storyteller, and Touch and Go poetic approach in Voices of the Alamo. Rio Travels of a Children's Book Illustrator. Grande Stories, a fictional book that sounds like Tornado, by Betsy Byars, could be used as an history, could be used as a springboard for appetizer to Seymour Simon's Tornadoes. The students to collect stories of the past from people fictional 'Gator Aid could be paired with Jim in their own community. Another topic is the Amosky's All About Alligators. westward exploration. The Incredible Journey of As more books came to mind, the idea was Lewis and Clark could be paired with a fictional suggested that book pairing, whether it were two account, such as Joseph Bruchac's Sacajawea: fiction books, two informational books, or a The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and combination of both, would be a useful feature Clark Expedition, written as if it were in each issue of Children's Book and Play Sacajawea's journal. The fictional book The Review. Look for other book pairs in this issue Bunyans and the informational book entitled and those that follow. Another source to look for Bryce Canyon National Park could spark a study book pairs and teaching strategies for comparing of geography. Students could do reports on all fact and fiction can be found in Deanne Camp's the spots visited by the Bunyans. article "It Takes Two: Teaching Twin Texts of Sixth graders will focus on ancient cultures, Fact and Fiction," in The Reading Teacher, including Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Factual Volume 53, No.5, February 2000 on page 400. books that could arouse interest include the Start enriching the reading of young people by Usborne Time Traveller Books. Rome and the suggesting pairs of books on the same topic. Romans could be paired with The Eagle of the Remember that facts enrich fiction, and fiction Ninth, a historical fiction novel. Other Usborne makes facts memorable. books include Pharaohs and Pyramids and The Young Scientist Book of Archaeology, a book

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Bibliography Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark, The. Rhoda Blumberg. Beech Tree, 1995. ISBN All About Alligators. Jim Arnosky. Scholastic, 0-688-06512-0. 1994. ISBN 0-590-46788-3. Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration. Anarctica. Helen Cowcher. Farrar, Straus & Lynn Carlee. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. ISBN Giroux, 1990. ISBN 0-374-30368-l. 0-395-83013-3. Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems. Kangaroos and Koalas: What They Have in Judy Sierra. Harcourt Brace, 1998. ISBN 0- Common. Erin Pembrey Swan. Franklin 152-01006-8. Watts, 2000. ISBN 0-531-16447-0. Asian-Americans in the Old West. Gail Sakurai. Killer Whale. Carolyn Arnold. Morrow, 1994. Children's Press, 2000. ISBN 0-688-12029-6. Boom Town. Sonia Levitin. Orchard, 1998. Koala Lou. Mem Fox. Harcourt Brace, 1989. ISBN 0-531-30043-9. ISBN 1-56397-247-6. Bryce Canyon National Park. David Peterson. Lon po po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from Children's Press, 1997. ISBN 0-516-26094- China. Ed Young. Philomel, 1989. ISBN 0- 4. 399-21619-7. Bunyans, The. Audrey Wood. Scholastic, 1996. Look What Came From Australia. Kevin Davis. ISBN 0-590-48089-8. Grolier, 1999. ISBN 0-531-16433-0. Children of the Incas. David Mangurian. Four Lost Treasures of the Incas. Peter Lourie. Boyds Winds, 1979. ISBN 0-590-07500-4. Mill Press, 1999. ISBN 1-5697-743-5. Children of the Wild West. Russell Freedman. Market. Ted Lewin. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Houghton Miffling, 1983. ISBN 0-89919- 1996. ISBN 0-688-12161-6. 143-6. Moby Dick. Allan Drummond. Farrar, Straus & China. Henry Pluckrose. Franklin Watts, 1999. Giroux, 1997. ISBN 0-374-34997-5. ISBN 0-531-153751-4. North American Indian Games. Madelyn Klein Cleopatra. Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema. Anderson. Franklin Watts, 2000. ISBN 0- Morrow, 1994. ISBN 0-688-10413-4. 531-20403-0. Crazy Horse: War Chief of the Oglalas. Chet Orphan Runaways. Kristiana Gregory. Cunningham. Lerner, 2000. ISBN 0-8225- Scholastic, 1998. ISBN 0-590-60366-3. 4978-6. Peppe, the Lamplighter. Ted Lewin. Lothrop, Dateline Troy. Paul Fleishman. Candlewick Lee & Shepard, 1993. ISBN 0-688-10268-9. Press, 1996. ISBN 1-564-02469-5. Pharaohs and Pyramids. Tony Allan and Eagle of the Ninth, The. Rosemary Sutcliff. Vivienne Henry. Usborne, 1977. ISBN 0- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. ISBN 0-374- 86020-084-1. 41939-2. Powwow. George Ancona. Harcourt Brace, 'Gator Aid. Jane Cutler. Farrar, Straus & 1993. ISBN 0-15-263268-9. Giroux, 1999. ISBN 0-374-32502-2. Puddle, The. David McPhail. Farrar, Straus & Gold Fever: Tales From the California Gold Giroux, 1998. ISBN 0-374-436148-7. Rush. Rosalyn Shanzer. National Puddles. Jonathan London. Scholastic, 1994. Geographic Society, 1999. ISBN 0-7922- ISBN 0-590-00070-5. 7303-6. Pueblos, The. Alice K. Flanagan. Chidlren's Great American Gold Rush, The. Rhoda Press, 1998. ISBN 0-516-20626-5. Blumberg. Bradbury Press, 1989. ISBN 0- Rattlesnake Dance. Jim Amosky. Putnam's, 02-711681-6. 2000. ISBN 0-399-22755-5. How Would You Survive as An Ancient Greek? Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Fiona MacDonald. Franklin Watts, 1999. Rattlesnake Ceremonies. Jennifer Owings ISBN 0-531-15307-X. Dewey. Boyds Mill Press, 1997. ISBN 1- Inca Town. Fiona MacDonald. Franklin Watts, 56397-247-6. 1999. ISBN 0-531-15361-4. Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Incas, The. Tim Wood. Viking, 1996. ISBN 0- Egypt, The. James Giblin. HarperTrophy, 670-87037-4. 1990. ISBN 0-690-04797-5.

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Rio Grande Stories. Carolyn Meyer. Harcourt Brace, 1994. ISBN 0-15-2000066-6. Introducing Rio Grande: From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Lourie. Boyds Mill Press, 1999. ISBN 1-5697-706-0. Rome and the Romans. Heather Amery and Book Patricia Vanags. Usborne, 1976. ISBN 0- 86020-70-1. Pairs Scajawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Joseph The preceding article provided the impetus Bruchac. Silver Whistle, 2000. ISBN 0-152- for a new feature in the Children's Book and 02234-1. Play Review. As members of CBPR's editorial Seeker of Knowledge: the Man Who Deciphered board discussed this feature, we recognized that Egyptian Hieroglyphs. James Rumford. teachers, librarians, and parents often seek Houghton Mifflin, 2000. ISBN 0-395- complementary books to share with young 97934-X. people, and that young readers often want Shawnee, The. Alice K. Flanagan Children's more-more information on a topic, more books Press, 1998. ISBN 0-516-20627-3. like the one they have just read, or another Storyteller, The. Ted Lewin Lothrop, Lee & perspective or context to help them understand a Shepard, 1998. ISBN 0-688-15178-7. topic, person, or event more clearly. Tacky the Penguin. Helen Lester. Houghton Beginning with this issue, the CBPR will Mifflin, 1988. ISBN 0-395-45536-7. feature "Book Pairs," the pairing of two related Tornado. Betsy Byars. HarperCollins, 1996. books that could easily be used together in a ISBN 0-060-26449-7. classroom, home, or library setting. Look for Tornadoes. Seymour Simon. Morrow, 1999. seven variations of book pairs in coming issues: ISBN 0-688-14646-5. Touch and Go: Travels of a Children's Book 1. Fiction/Fact: One fiction and one Illustrator. Ted Lewin. Lothrop, Lee & informational work that address the Shepard, 1999. ISBN 0-688-14109-9. same or complementary subjects. Utes, The. Alice K. Flanagan. Children's Press, 2. Complementary Fiction: Two works 1998. ISBN 0-516-20455-6. of fiction that address the same or Voices of the Alamo. Sherry Garland. Scholastic, complementary subjects. 2000. ISBN 0-570-988336-6. 3. Folktale Versions: Works that Wampanoags, The. Alice K. Flanagan. compnse variations of the same Children's Press, 1998. ISBN 0-516-20629- folktales or folktale theme. X. 4. Informational Matches: Two Water Book. Frank Asch. Harcourt, 1995. ISBN nonfiction works that address the same 0-15-202348-8. or complementary subjects. Young Scientist Book of Archaeology, The. 5. Biographical Duos: Two biographies Barbara Cork and Struan Reid. Usborne, about the same person or different 1984. ISBN 0-8620-865-6. people that share something in common. Zunis, The. Alice K. Flanagan. Children's Press, 6. Poetry Partners: A book of poetry 1998. ISBN 0-516-20630-3. paired with another book, either poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. 7. Different Reading Levels: Two books, fiction or nonfiction, that address the same or complementary subjects for different reading levels.

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