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Toni Buzzeo and YOU
Toni Buzzeo
Book Code: LU2113
ISBN: 1-59158-211-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-211-3
176 pages, photos
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 10/30/2005
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Subjects:
Series Title: The Author and You
Series Number: 4
Reviews:
  • Tonred Review This "virtual visit" is from Toni Buzzeo, one of our own media specialists and award-winning children's book author. Not only do you learn about Toni's early life, but you also find the path she took to become an author.... Truly a gift for all library media specialists.... This book makes me want to have Toni Buzzeo for my next author visit. Highly Recommended.
    —Library Media Connection     April/May 2006
  • Endorsement From : "The Author and YOU author series is just what librarians and teachers need. Not only does each book give fascinating personal and enlightening details about the featured author's life, the strategies for using the author's books are practical and easy to use. This series helps readers better understand the authors and the books they write, and provides creative suggestions to help young readers truly understand and appreciate the individual titles. A great resource that teachers and librarians will use again and again; the strategies can be the basis for many lessons across the curriculum. Keep these titles coming!"
    Peggy Sharp
Description: Playing on the phrase, "The author and you," a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said, this series will assist teachers and teacher-librarians in understanding the underlying purposes of the author as they prepare learning activities for their students. The series focuses primarily on books for the elementary age child (K-6), featuring insights into the author's background, purposes and goals in writing books. By furnishing an overview of the author's works, the books in the series give teachers the big picture. Each book features personal information about the author, including insights into why this author has chosen to write in a specific genre plus lesson plans and/or activities for each of the author's books featured. These lessons will stress the particular interest of the author and the "author and you (the teacher)" will build a collaborative instructional relationship using the material provided. Each book is written by the featured author or in close collaboration with the author. Using family photographs, reminiscences, anecdotes and stories, Toni Buzzeo relates her lifelong preparation to become a writer. The book features wonderful insights into the creation of her picture books for children and interesting creative lesson activities to use with students. Grades K-6.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Meet the Author: Toni Buzzeo, A Life in Children's Books
  • The Sea Chest
  • Dawdle Duckling
  • Little Loon and Papa
  • Ready or Not, Dawdle Duckling
  • A Matrix of Learning Activities by Content Standard/Strand
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2005024507
LCC Class: PS3602
Dewey Class: 813
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