I Love Picture Books!

     Sharing picture books with kids is probably my favorite part of being a librarian. I also love sharing them with adults! I have so many favorite ones! One of my personal goals for the new school year is to use this blog to share some of my favorites.
     I love to begin the school year with the Black Lagoon series by author, Mike Thaler and illustrator, Jared Lee. This series is full of laughs. The students get some of the jokes, but a lot of them are for adults! One year when a new teacher's aide came to work, they put her in the library shelving books for a couple of hours (a rarity) and as she shelved books, she listened and giggled a lot. The series introduces students to the various people who work in the school - teacher, principal, school secretary, school nurse, librarian (my favorite, of course), cafeteria workers, bus driver and more. I love to talk about fiction and imagination when sharing these books with my first, second, and third graders. I read different titles to each grade.
     The school year begins next Wednesday and I'm sure that I have some new books waiting to become favorites! Tune in next week to read about a new favorite that I discover. . .