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A must-read for parents, new teachers, and classroom veterans,
"Educating Esme" is the exuberant diary of Esme Raji Codell s first
year teaching in a Chicago public school. Fresh-mouthed and
free-spirited, the irrepressible Madame Esme as she prefers to be
called does the cha-cha during multiplication tables, roller-skates
down the hallways, and puts on rousing performances with at-risk
students in the library. Her diary opens a window into a real-life
classroom from a teacher s perspective. While battling bureaucrats,
gang members, abusive parents, and her own insecurities, this
gifted young woman reveals what it takes to be an exceptional
teacher.
Heroine to thousands of parents and educators, Esme now shares more
of her ingenious and yet down-to-earth approaches to the classroom
in a supplementary guide to help new teachers hit the ground
running. As relevant and iconoclastic as when it was first
published, "Educating Esme" is a classic, as is Madame Esme
herself."
Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and
teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a
lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores,
promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we
most want to pass on.
Esme Raji Codell--an inspiring children's literature specialist
and an energetic teacher--has the solution. She's turned her years
of experience with children, parents, librarians, and fellow
educators into a great big indispensable volume designed to help
parents get their kids excited about reading.
Here are hundreds of easy and inventive ideas, innovative
projects, creative activities, and inspiring suggestions that have
been shared, tried, and proven with children from birth through
eighth grade.
This five-hundred-page volume is brimming with themes for
superlative storytimes and book-based birthday parties, ideas for
mad-scientist experiments and half-pint cooking adventures, stories
for reluctant readers and book groups for boys, step-by-step
instructions for book parades, book-related crafts, storytelling
festivals, literature-based radio broadcasts, readers' theater, and
more. There are book lists galore, with subject-driven reading
recommendations for science, math, cooking, nature, adventure,
music, weather, gardening, sports, mythology, poetry, history,
biography, fiction, and fairy tales. Codell's creative thinking and
infectious enthusiasm will empower even the busiest parents and
children to include literature in their lives."
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King Matt the First (Paperback)
Janusz Korczak; Translated by Richard Lourie; Introduction by Esme Raji Codell
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Janusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over
twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as "Peter
Pan," and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child
advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was
relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although Korczak's celebrity
afforded him many chances to escape, he refused to abandon the
children. He was killed at Treblinka along with the children.
"King Matt the First," one of Korczak's most beloved tales, is the
story of a boy who becomes king and sets out to reform his kingdom.
He decrees that all children are to be given a piece of chocolate
at the end of each day. He visits faraway lands and befriends
cannibal kings. Whenever his ministers tell him something's
impossible, he puts them in jail. He disguises himself as a soldier
and becomes a hero. But, as in real life, fantasy is tempered by
reality: Matt's fellow kings become jealous of his success--and in
the end, Matt falls, although it's clear that he was the greatest
king there ever was.
Now this rediscovered classic is available again, and with a
vibrant new cover by award-winning artist Brian Selznick. This
timeless tale shows that only through the honesty and spontaneity
of children can grown-ups begin to imagine and to create a better
world.
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