I have two main goals for summer work around supporting educators doing #ClassroomBookADay: Creating resources to make it easier to find and display high-quality books + continuing to share title recommendations in ways that will be helpful and timely. I have done a lot of thematic lists over the years, but they are usually more limited in number; however, that might make it harder to source the titles at times. My thought is to create a monthly release of curated titles at (hopefully) the time of year they will be most useful. These releases would be extensive to end up creating a large database at the end that can be your go-to when trying to find picture books from which to select your read alouds or to recommend for purchases for your school or public libraries!
To that aim, I decided to test out a format for my new idea with an AANHPI resource. And I am offering it for half off for this sneak peek release! Even though we are halfway through May, these books are still good for reading and sharing any time of the year. This particular list ended up with 330 titles you could choose from!!
There are two parts to the resource, both available as editable Google files on my ko-fi shop:
One is a Doc file with all of the cover images for the picture books I recommend for that month – easy to just copy and paste into your printing template for your cbad display. The other is a Sheets file with the basic information for all of the tiles: author, illustrator, publication year, series, fiction or nonfiction, awards, & themes/topics in BISAC Subject Headings. Plus checkboxes for own, favorite (pre-filled with my favs to narrow down the list), and tracking which ones you’ve read. The spreadsheets can be added on to month after month as a whole file or separate tabs to best meet your organization preferences.;)
Each monthly list will be offered as individual files ($4 for covers, $5 for database) or $7 for the bundle of both. There will be 12 for a whole year’s worth of recommendations.
And you can pre-buy a membership subscription – with the files emailed throughout the 2024-25 school year – for 1/2 price bundles!
Building a Year of #ClassroomBookADay Lists
August: Back-to-School & Community Building
September: Hispanic Heritage Month
October: Spooky Season & Elections/Voting
November: Native American Heritage Month
December: Family & SEL
January: Disability / Neurodivergence / Mental Health
February: Black History Month
March: Women’s History Month
April: Arab American Heritage Month & Earth Day
May: Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage & Jewish American Heritage Month
June: Pride Month
July: Holidays Throughout the Year
