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Education - Children's Literature in the Classroom

A guide for locating grade-appropriate children's literature for use in the classroom.

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Unsure about how to use big books? Check out Scholastic Canada's Guide for using Big Books in the Classroom.

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Featured Big Books

Growing Frogs by Vivian French; Alison Bartlett (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763603175
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
The Emperor's Egg Big Book by Martin Jenkins; Jane Chapman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0763622338
Publication Date: 2003-07-28
Each Orange Had 8 Slices Big Book by Donald Crews (Illustrator); Paul Giganti
ISBN: 9780688131166
Publication Date: 1994-04-25
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Child's Play Staff; Pam Adams (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780859536356
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Who Hops? by Katie Davis (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780152018399
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab Big Book by Jeff Sayre; Randy Cecil (Illustrator); April Pulley Sayre
ISBN: 9780763647902
Publication Date: 2010-03-09
It's about me - it's about you
ISBN: 9780131247406
This is from the Discovery Links Social Studies Series.
Family scrapbook by Jill Bever, Sheilah Currie.
ISBN: 9780176266530
From the Nelson Inforead Social Studies series.
Growth and Change by Sue Graves
ISBN: 9780131969551
From the Pearson Reaching Readers series.

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