Not Just for Kids: How to Use Picture Books with Tweens and Teens
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Booklists: Recommended Picture Books
Check out picture books recommended by our presenters for use with older readers or browse picture books from Lerner online now. We’ve also collected a list of books mentioned during the webinar along with crowdsourced resources for finding great picture books!
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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.
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Additional Resources
Article from the New York Times: “Your Kids Aren’t Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither Are You”
From Perspectives On Reading: “Nonfiction Picture Books: They’re Not Just for Kids!”
Recommended resources for discovering new picture books from our panelists and webinar viewers:
Cicely Lewis’s column on School Library Journal
Betsy Bird’s Blog on School Library Journal
TeachingBooks.net
IndieBound.org’s Kids Next List
Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf Newsletter
Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Children’s Book Council
TheBrownBookshelf.com
Book Riot
TheConsciousKid.org
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Updated January 2023