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.
Booklists: Recommended 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:
- 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 2024-02-26 12:19:40 -0800.