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You need S is for Story, A Writer’s Alphabet for your library. It’s the perfect book to kick off your summer reading and writing plans!
This informative and engaging picture book illuminates words from a writer’s life from A to Z starting with Alphabet, explaining the history and Greek word alphabetos, ending with Z for Zorro who signed his name with his sword drawn lines, and finishes with P.S. for post scriptum.
Each double page has a beautiful illustration, one or sometimes two letter(s) of the alphabet, a short poem, a writer’s tip and a sidebar with information. For example:
“So N? It’s for Notebook,
a writer’s must for sure,
for catching, keeping,
any time,
thoughts, ideas, and more.”
The sidebar includes information about a writer’s notebook plus this Writer’s Tip: “Copy words, sentences, or poems you admire into your Writer’s Notebook, to reread, study, savor, and model.”
Download this activity guide from the publisher and this Young Author’s Extras from the author, Esther Hershenhorn, to give you book extension ideas.
WIN: Would you like to win a copy of S is for Story? Sleeping Bear Press is generously giving two Imagination Soup readers this book! Allcomments below will be entered to win. Contest ends July 12, 2010.
*Congratulations to Heidi and Christine! Random.org picked you both as winners of S is for Story!
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I have a couple of budding writers who would love this book! I love it that the whole alphabet is about story! thanks, Hallie
This book sounds like Learning fun.. It would be a Godsend for our Preschool and Kindergarten library
and all of our students and teachers. i’d like no I would love to win a copy!
This book sounds great. I would love to get it for my nephews!
This book will be an example for beginning writers in our “Spill the Ink” workshop.My beginners writers will also attend an Typing Camp to strengthen their writing. Thanks for the tip.
Thank you, Melissa, for sharing my book S IS FOR STORY: A WRITER’S ALPHABET with your Imagination Soup readers!
I so appreciate your Kind Words and enthusiastic support.
I wrote the book I wish – I – had had when I was six and knew I wanted to become a children’s book author.
MY book + YOUR readers (hopefully) = A Bounty of Young Writers.
The most challenging part of writing the book was to select the 13 quotes by award-winning children’s book creators that meaningfully grace the bottom of each double-page spread. Those selected represent a variety of ethnically-diverse living and dead, male and female authors who write and wrote across a variety of formats and genres.
Interested readers can learn more about my book – my inspiration, research and writing process as well as illustrator Zak Pullen’s gorgeous art – by linking to my S IS FOR STORY posts on my group blog http://www.TeachingAuthors.com.
We’re six children’s book writers who also teach writing. At the end of most of our themed posts, we offer our readers Writing Work-outs.
Here’s the link to my Dec. and October, 2010 posts:
http://www.teachingauthors.com/search/label/S%20is%20for%20Story%3A%20A%20Writer%27s%20Alphabet
I look forward to sharing my Imagination Soup parent-child writing activity come July.
Thanks again for introducing your readers – and thus THEIR Young Writers – to my book.
Esther Hershenhorn
Wow, what a great way to teach and get a child interested in writing and alphabets together!
I think this book sounds awesome. I would love to read it to my 1st graders at the beginning of the year to get them rolling into Writer’s Workshop!
As a literacy coach I would love to use this for PD to incorporate shared reading and writing.
I just finished a class on the writing process and wish I would have known about this book before. What a creative way to help young writers.
My homeschooled almost first grader loves to “write” and illustrate stories. This would be a great reinforcement for her and jumping off point for me in planning her first grade writing world.
I would love to read this book to my daughters this summer!
I love this book, as a writer myself I would have loved to have this as a child. My granddaughter is only 4 but I plan to get the book and begin to use it with her. Sounds wonderful… might use it for myself!
As a new librarian, I need to win this book to share with my students!
Sleeping Bear Press publishes books written by some of my favorite authors — Mike and Debbie Shoulders, in particular — so I am sure S is for Story will become another of my favorites. B-)
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