Not Just for Kids: How to Use Picture Books with Tweens and Teens
Featuring
Are you pigeonholing your picture books, limiting them to just primary grades? Gain insights from librarians and literacy luminaries Betsy Bird, Cicely Lewis, and Susannah Richards as they discuss the benefits of and strategies for using picture books with older students—including middle grade and high schoolers. Watch our webinar on demand, moderated by Carol Hinz, Associate Publisher, Millbrook Press & Carolrhoda Picture Books.
Download Our Teaching Guides
Download free teaching guides for Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer and Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. The guides include discussion questions, activities, additional resources, and more ideas perfect for using these picture books to spark discussion with older readers in your classroom or library.
Additional Resources
From the New York Times:
From Perspectives On Reading:
From our panelists and webinar viewers:
- Opens a new windowCicely Lewis’s column on School Library Journal
- Opens a new windowBetsy Bird’s Blog on School Library Journal
- Opens a new windowTeachingBooks.net
- Opens a new windowIndieBound.org’s Kids Next List
- Opens a new windowPublisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf Newsletter
- Opens a new windowCooperative Children’s Book Center
- Opens a new windowChildren’s Book Council
- Opens a new windowTheBrownBookshelf.com
- Opens a new windowBook Riot
- Opens a new windowTheConsciousKid.org
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Updated 2024-02-26 12:19:40 -0800.