Even as the students get older, there are still many picture books that can entertain and inform them. Black and White is a very sophisticated book, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1991. The book is divided into what seems like four separate stories, but as we read the students begin to realize that these four stories are connected. They are able to see how one story fills in the gaps of one of the other stories. There was a lot of speculation about what was actually going on in this book, and maybe there was no one right answer, but the students did their best predicting what would happen and making connections. Listen to a reading of this book on You Tube
here.
Even as the students get older, there are still many picture books that can entertain and inform them. Black and White is a very sophisticated book, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1991. The book is divided into what seems like four separate stories, but as we read the students begin to realize that these four stories are connected. They are able to see how one story fills in the gaps of one of the other stories. There was a lot of speculation about what was actually going on in this book, and maybe there was no one right answer, but the students did their best predicting what would happen and making connections. Listen to a reading of this book on You Tube here.
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