My little readers - @ The Mango Tree Reading Club

 

Congratulations Kyra on winning the first prize in read aloud competition in your school.  Your voice with all your expressions takes me to another world!

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I realize, of course, that I wasn’t born knowing how to read. I just can’t imagine a time when I didn’t know how.” - Katherine Paterson

Mango Tree reading Club recommends: The Reading Mother

The Reading Mother
by
Strickland Gillilan

I had a mother who read to me
Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea,
Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth,
"Blackbirds" stowed in the hold beneath.

I had a Mother who read me lays
Of ancient and gallant and golden days;
Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe,
Which every boy has a right to know.

I had a Mother who read me tales
Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales,
True to his trust till his tragic death,
Faithfulness blent with his final breath.

I had a Mother who read me the things
That wholesome life to the boy heart brings--
Stories that stir with an upward touch,
Oh, that each mother of boys were such!

You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be--
I had a Mother who read to me.

Children's book awards 2016 . And the award goes to

 

The John Newbery Medal, which rewards the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature, went to Matt de la Peña’s Last Stop on Market Street, about a little boy’s weekly bus ride home from church with his grandmother.  

 

 

The Randolph Caldecott Medal, which rewards picture books, went to Sophie Blackall’s Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, about the author’s great-grandfather, who brought a bear named Winnie along with him to fight in World War I; Winnie later inspired the character of A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh.

The Coretta Scott King award for a work by an African-American writer went to Rita Williams-Garcia’s Gone Crazy in Alabama, about Brooklyn sisters who spend a summer in the South. The corresponding award for an illustrator went to Bryan Collier for Trombone Shorty, about the New Orleans jazz  prodigy.

The Michael L. Printz Award, which rewards young adult literature, went to Laura Ruby’s Bone Gap, about an abducted girl and the boy who wants to find her.