List of Titles Reviewed

For your convenience, here is a list of titles that I have reviewed and added suggestions for how and when to use as mentor texts.  (120 titles so far!)

Please check back often, as I add new titles weekly!!  

*A Call for a New Alphabet by Jef Czekaj
*A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
*All the Places I Love by Patricia MacLachlan
*Almost Gone by Steve Jenkins
*Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
*Amos and Boris by William Steig
*Animals Nobody Loves by Seymour Simon
*Baseball Saved Us by Ken  Mochizuki
*Brave Irene by William Steig
*BIGMAMA'S by Donald Crews

*Bring the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
*Bugs in My Hair by David Shannon
*Creature Features by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
*Crow Call by Lois Lowry
*Colonial Home by Bobbie Kalman
*Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
*Dad, Jackie and Me by Myron Ulhberg
*Dantra Brown, Class Clown by Nikki Grimes
*dear juno by Soyung Pak
*Dear Mrs. LaRue by Mark Teague
*Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld

*Earrings! by Judith Voirst
*Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine

*Endanger Elephants by Bobbie Kalman

*Farfallina and Marcel by Holly Keller
*Finding Winnie by Lindsey Mattick
*First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
*Fox by Margaret Wild
*Growing Vegetable Soup By Lois Ehlert

*Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolan
*Hey, Al by Arthur Yonicks
*How Do You Raise a Raisin? by Pam Munoz Ryan
*How To Catch Santa by Jean Reagan
*How To Clean Your Room in 10 Easy Steps by Jennifer LaRue Huget
*How To Read A Story By Kate Messner
*Hush by Minfong Ho
*Ish by Peter H. Reynolds
*I Will Never NOT EVER Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
*If You Were An Antonym by Nancy Loewen
*I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
*Jack and the Baked Beanstalk by Colin Stimpson
*King of the Playground by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
*Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
*Light in the Darkness by Lesa Cline-Ransome
*Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
*Little Red Writing by Joan Holcub
*Learning from Classmates by Lisa Eickholdt **Professional book
*Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell
*Mighty Jackie by Marissa Moss

*My Man Blue by Nikki Grimes
*My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother By Patricia Polacco
*Monster Needs Your Vote by Paul Czajak
*Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willem
*National Geographic Kids "Everything" Series
*Night Driving by John Coy
*Night In the Country by Cynthia Rylant
*Not Norman by Kelly Bennett
*Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter
*Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman
*Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
*Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
*Papa's Mechanical Fish by Candance Fleming
*Pecan PIe Baby by Jacqueline Woodson
*PROBUDITI! by Chris Van Allsburt
*Sam & Dave Dig A Hole by Mac Barnett

*Sharks by Seymour Simon
*Shark vs Train by Chris Barton
*Shortcut by Donald Crews
*Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
*Sitti's Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye
*Snail and Worm by Tina Kugler
*Snow by Cynthia Rylant
*Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

*Suki's Kimono by Chieri Uegaki
*Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
*Thank you, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
*The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat
*The Bad Birthday Idea by Madeline Valentine
*The Beginner's Guide to Running Away from Home by Jennifer LaRue Huget
*Those Darn Squirrels and the Cat Next Door by Adam Rubin
*The Black Rabbit by Philippa Leathers
*The Chalk Doll by Charlotte Pomerantz
*The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
*The Day of Ahmed's Secret by Florence Parry Heide/Judith Heide Guilliland
*The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
*The Gardner by Sarah Stewart
*The Girl's Like Spaghetti by Lynne Truss
*The Golden Sandal by Rebecca Hickox
*The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel
*The Great Gracie Chase-by Cynthia Rylant
*The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
*The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashely Spires
*The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
*The Perfect Pet by Margie Palatini
*The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paola
*The Raft by Jim LaMarche

*The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
*The Rough Face Girl by Rafe Martin
*The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
*The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg

*The Stray Dog by  Marc Simont
*The Three Questions by Jon J Muth
*The Treasure by Uri Shulevitz
*The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins
*The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants by Priscilla Turner
*The Widow's Broom by Chris Van Allsburg
*Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
*Trucks by Seymour Simon

*Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher
*Two Mrs. Gibsons by Toyomi Igus
*Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
*Weslandia by Paul Fleishman
*What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? by Steve Jenkins
*When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes
*White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman
*Widget by Lyn Rossiter MacFarland
*Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman
*You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party by Peter Cook