My Favorite Childhood Book and a Giveaway

Hey everyone!! I hope you have been enjoying the guest blog spots this week as much as I have! I have another week of fantabulous guest bloggers lined up for you while I continue with the last leg of my east coast vacay. Today the hubs and I traveled from NY up to Vermont where we will be spending our last  few days relaxing lakeside with my sister in law and her little one. But tonight, I'm tuning in quickly to share with you a recent discovery of mine and give you a chance to participate in a sweet giveaway if you're willing to tell me a little bit about your favorite childhood book.

This is my favorite childhood book.

It's a rhyming book that teaches you teasing isn't nice.

It was originally published in the 1960's and has long since been out of print.

When I looked for it on Amazon 2  years ago, it was only selling first additions for $200- YIKES!

I own the original. But I never take it to school, because I'm saving it for my children and worry something might happen to it.

Then a few days ago, and I started to see bloggers talking about The Clever School Teacher.

So I checked it out. Oh my word, it is such a great resource for teachers!! You can by books that have already been organized by standards, genres, specific comprehension skills, grade levels,  and a variety of other categories they are adding daily such as word study and writers workshop unit texts. You can purchase  individual books or whole sets by each of the above categories. If you know what you want to teach, they know which books to use which eliminates the guess work!

On Deanna Jump's blog post about the Clever School Teacher she said to go look for your favorite book on the site. Well, that got me thinking, what skills could I use Never Tease a Weasel to teach to my firsties?  For no rational reason whatsoever (since I knew such an old book would not be on this new website) I typed in Never Tease a Weasel into the Clever School Teacher search engine. And to my absolute shock, I found this!

It's my favorite childhood book re-released with new illustrations!! I couldn't believe it!

Apparently I'm not the only one who loved this story because it was republished in 2011, unbeknownst to me :) The Clever School Teacher had it listed a a primary grade level text that could be used to teach the Comprehension Skill of Predicting. Being familiar with the story, this made complete sense to me.

The Clever School Teacher has been kind enough to award one lucky reader a  $10 Gift Certificate towards any purchase at their store! AND -- if you spend $25, shipping and handling is free. So you can purchase $25 worth of books for only $15!!

Here's how to enter:

1) Go to  The Clever School Teacher and search for one of your favorite childhood books.

2) Comment back on this post with the title of your book and what meaningful lesson or skill you can use to teach your class with this book.

That's it! I will select a random winner next Sunday!!

And check back tomorrow for the next guest blogger spot by my friend Kelley from Teacher Idea Factory :)