The theme of this year’s Massachusetts Statewide Reading Program is Dream
Big_Read! and students can sign up at any public library to participate. The Wayland
Library will kickoff the program with a Magic Show and Balloon Sculpting workshop led
by magician and balloon artist Ed Popielarczyk on June 28. Other highlights include a
visit from Wingmasters (live owls)...and a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk by
Nappy's Puppets...
Children will be encouraged to keep track of their reading all summer either online or on
paper logs. All participants in the summer reading program will be invited to an Ice
Cream Bash on August 14. Please check the online calendar for updates at :
http://www.waylandlibrary.org/children/summer_reading.htm
The following list contains some noteworthy books that have been published this past year. They should provide a starting point for summer reading but hopefully will lead to further explorations. Research has shown that children are motivated to read when they have a choice of what books to read. (Scholastic 2010 Kids and Family Reading Report) Make sure that frequent trips to the library are part of your summer plans and that there are plenty of interesting books at home. Choosing a book for a family read-­‐aloud is a wonderful way to share and discuss good books. Enjoy the summer and Dream Big _READ! Elizabeth Bryant Library Media Specialist Rodman, Mary Ann. Camp K-9. Roxie is keeping a secret from her fellow
campers--a blankie that she keeps hidden. .
Gilman, Grace. Dixie.
Dixie the puppy plays with Emma every day after school until Emma starts
memorizing her lines for the school play.
Rostoker-Gruber, Karen. Ferret fun.
Two nervous pet ferrets named Fudge and Einstein try to
convince a visiting cat that they are not mouth-watering rats.
Palatini, Margie. Goldie and the three hares.
When Goldilocks, running from the three bears, falls
down a rabbit hole and hurts her foot, a family of hares tries to help, but
Goldilocks proves to be a very loud, demanding, and tenacious guest.
Hoffman, Mary, 1945-. The great big book of families.
An illustrated overview of families, examining various aspects of families
from houses to holidays to schools and pets, and discussing feelings and
family trees.
Kasbarian, Lucine. The greedy sparrow : an Armenian tale., c2011.
A sparrow receives kindness from strangers and repays each act of
kindness with a trick to get more, but at last, in a surprising twist, the
sparrow is back with his original problem.
Peck, Jan. The green Mother Goose : saving the world one rhyme at a time
A collection of illustrated nursery rhymes for children that encourage
eco-friendly habits.
Lunde, Darrin P. Hello, baby beluga.
Introduces children to the life and habitat of baby beluga whales.
Beaty, Andrea. Hide and sheep.
Farmer McFitt must round up his sheep, which have strayed
all over town, in order to shear them to make wool so that he can knit
clothing.
I am the book : poems.
An illustrated collection of poems that celebrates
reading
Willems, Mo. I broke my trunk!
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about
how he broke his trunk.
Metzger, Steve. The ice cream king.
Teddy is transported to a magical
world of ice cream while visiting a new ice cream shop.
Smallcomb, Pam. I'm not.
A young girl discovers that best friends
can enjoy and do well at different things as long as they are
good at being friends.
Crews, Nina. Jack and the beanstalk.
Photo-collage illustrations and updated text provide a new look at the
traditional tale of a boy who plants magic beans.
Soman, David. Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad.
When Lulu invites her friends from the Bug Squad—
all dressed up as insects--to come over for a play date, she wants
everything to go just as she has planned.
Johnston, Tony. Levi Strauss gets a bright idea : a fairly fabricated
story of a pair of pants.
Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went
to California during the GoldRush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of
trouser, and invented jeans.
Henkes, Kevin. Little white rabbit.
As he hops along a little rabbit wonders what it would be like to be
green as grass, tall as fir trees, hard as rocks, and flutter like butterflies.
Underwood, Deborah. The loud book!
From the blare of an alarm clock in the morning to snores and crickets in t
explores the many loud noises one might hear during the course of a day.
Dempsey, Kristy. Mini racer.
Animals in a variety of fanciful vehicles,
including a snail on a skateboard and rabbits in a carrot-car.
McAllister, Angela. My mom has x-ray vision
Matthew is certain his mother has X-ray vision because
she always knows what he is doing.
Poydar, Nancy. No fair science fair.
As the judging of his class's science fair approaches, Otis has
trouble even thinking of an idea but once he has built a bird
feeder he is determined to make some good observations.
Beaumont, Karen. No sleep for the sheep!
A sheep wants nothing but to go to sleep in the big red barn
on the farm, but each time he closes his eyes, another animal moos or
neighs or peeps to come in.
Friester, Paul. Owl howl.
The animals of the forest try everything they can
think of to stop a little owl's crying and howling, but there is only one
thing that helps.
Schmid, Paul. A pet for Petunia.
Petunia so desperately wants a pet skunk that she refuses
to believe her parents when they say skunks stink.
Sattler, Jennifer Gordon. Pig kahuna.
Fergus is afraid to go in the water, but he and his baby brother
Dink find a surfboard while collecting treasures along the seashore.
Dorman, Brandon. Pirates of the sea!
Cap'n Bones and his crew face sharks, a sea serpent, and
more as they follow a map toward a real treasure.
Twohy, Mike. Poindexter makes a friend.
Poindexter is a very shy pig who, while helping out at the library,
meets a turtle who is also shy, and together they read a book
about making a friend in four easy steps.
Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth. Pond walk.
One summer day, Buddy and his mother take a walk around a pond and
observe the animals and insects that live there.
Tullet, Hervé. Press here.
Instructs the reader on how to interact with the illustrations to manipulate
yellow, blue, and red dots.
Liwska, Renata. Red wagon.
Lucy wants to play with her new red wagon as soon as she gets it,
but first she must use it to bring vegetables home from the market
for her mother.
Ehlert, Lois. Rrralph.
The narrator describes discovering how Ralph the dog
can talk, appropriately saying words such as "roof," "rough," "bark,"
and "wolf.".
Watt, Mélanie. Scaredy Squirrel has a birthday party.
Scaredy Squirrel plans to celebrate his birthday, quietly and without any
unnecessary surprises, by himself, but a surprise find in his mailbox
inspires Scaredy to increase his guest list to two.
Lehman, Barbara. The secret box.
A wordless picture book in which several children discover
a box hidden by a boy many years before.
Kimmelman, Leslie. The three bully goats.
Billy goat brothers Gruff, Ruff, and Tuff are bullies who rule their meadow
but when they cross Little Ogre's bridge and are mean to the baby animal
on the other side, they are in for a surprise.
Grey, Mini. Three by the sea.
Cat, Dog, and Mouse live together contentedly in a cottage
by the sea, dividing the work between them.
Jenkins, Steve. Time to eat.
Illustrations and text reveal the eating habits of pandas,
anacondas, ticks, and other animals.
Wardlaw, Lee. Won-Ton : a cat tale told in haiku.
A cat arrives at a shelter, arranges to go home with a
good family, and settles in with them, all the while letting them know who
is boss and, finally, sharing his real name.
Wells, Rosemary. Yoko's show-and-tell.
Yoko wants to show her classmates the antique doll her
grandparents sent to her for Girl's Festival Day.
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