The purpose of this booklist and author/book study is to serve the educator in enhancing living literature for the child through the use of top-quality picture books in main subject areas.

The booklist offered is NOT a curriculum. It is to be used in helping the child discover his/her own rabbit trails through good reading.

Through a carefully selected list of picture books, the child will learn:

Character Study/ Poetry Readings
Basic Musical Learning/ Historical Events
Geographical Findings/ Main Subject Study
Prolific Author Biographical Profiles/
Art Work & Artist Study/ Interesting Folk Lore

The Book Fiesta follows an easy quarterly format. All the selected books allow the busy educator/parent a mere 10-15 minute reading time to be shared with a child.

Each participant will receive:

* an author study of one children's author per week
* a booklist/ checklist of this author's work to cover during the week
* copywork
* a printable copysheet for your child to write his experience with this author and his/her work

Armed with a list of 12 authors, this Book Fiesta will last exactly 1 year. Our goal is to focus on one author and indulge our children in his/her books for a whole month . Discussions will be held at the Literature Alive (House of Literature) eloop:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LiteratureAlive/

To receive only the author lists/booklists/ checklists/ copywork/ copysheet for your in-home personal library study, please sign up here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookFiesta/

To receive the Slice of Pie motivational reading stickers to go with this study, go to http://www.houseofliterature.com


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(C) Book Fiesta & Slice of Pie is a term copywritten by Cay A. Gibson ~ House of Literature (an online library)