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These new kids' books will be superlatives in your class.
A book becomes a classroom favorite for lots of reasons-an excellent story line and exceptional illustrations are just two of the criteria. For a book to really work well, it also needs to fit perfectly with the curriculum and be inspiring to your students.
Thousands of new books are published every year, but not all of them have what it takes to become classroom classics or media center favorites. Here are a few that do.
Bringing history to life
What better way than through great fiction? Try these: Fifteen award-winning artists bring out the power of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech in I Have a Dream (Scholastic, $16.95, grades 2 and up). King's stirring words are matched by the stunning works of artists Floyd Cooper, Jerry Pinkney, James Ransome, Leo and Diane Dillon, and more. Michael 0. Tunnell's Mailing May (Tambourine, $16, grades 14) tells the story of Charlotte May Pierstorff, who wants to visit her grandmother "a million miles away in the rough old Idaho mountains." The train...