About this item
A new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime and getting kids to think with their eyes. Traditional storytime often offers a passive experience for kids, but the Whole Book approach asks the youngest of readers to ponder all aspects of a picture book and to use their critical thinking skills. Using classic examples, Megan asks kids to think about why the trim size of Ludwig Bemelman's Madeline is so generous, or why the typeset in David Wiesner's Caldecott winner,The Three Pigs, appears to twist around the page, or why books like Chris Van Allsburg's The Polar Express and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar are printed landscape instead of portrait.
About the Author
Megan Dowd Lambert (www.megandowdlambert.com) , Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature at Simmons University, is the author of Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See (Charlesbridge 2015) , which introduces the Whole Book Approach to storytime that she developed in association with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She received a 2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor for her first picture book, A Crow of His Own (Charlesbridge 2015, illustrated by David Hyde Costello) . Her second title for young readers, Real Sisters Pretend (Tilbury House 2016, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell) , is an adoption story inspired by two of her daughters, and it was named a 2017 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and a Must Read title by the 17th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. The mother of seven children ages 1-22 in a multiracial, queer, adoptive, blended family, Megan writes and reviews for Kirkus and The Horn Book, and she is hard at work on new books for young readers, including the sequel to A Crow of His Own, a new picture book called A Kid of Their Own, illustrated by Jessica Lanan, which Charlesbridge will publish in February 2020.
