Teacher-Selected Books for This Month's Reading Clubs

Last updated Wednesday, August 4, 2021

August: "Arts & Creativity"

Click on each book title for synopsis, discussion topics, and activity ideas.
Please note: We will provide you with PDF copies of these titles to read to the children.
After the reading clubs, these books will be donated to each school's library.

	Kindergarten The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art, by Barb Rosenstock Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when ...   (read more)
	1st Grade Mornings with Monet, by Barb Rosenstock Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Claude Monet is one of the world's most beloved artists - and he became famous during his own lifetime. He rejected a traditional life laid out clean ...   (read more)
	2nd Grade Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Javaka Steptoe Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ...   (read more)
	3rd Grade Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World, by Rachel Ignotofsky Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Women in Art highlights the achievements and stories of 50 notable women in the arts - from well-known figures like painters Frida Kahlo and ...   (read more)
	4th Grade The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, by Joyce Sidman Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be "born of mud" and to be "beasts of the devil." Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and ...   (read more)
	5th Grade Claudia and the New Girl (The Baby-sitters Club Graphic Novel #9), by Ann M. Martin Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: She wears hippie clothes and ...   (read more)