Come explore the wealth of resources available to students and to teachers on this teacher-created Web site. This growing resource includes book reviews, student work, lesson plans, and author/illustrator interviews. After an overview, we will share the book, lesson plan, and student work for four of the titles featured on the site.

Goals:
To highlight students' responses to Southwest children's literature
To share the resources available to teachers and students on this Web site

Summary:
This Web site is a celebration of the learning of preservice teachers, graduate students, their classroom teacher, teacher-librarian, or public librarian hosts, and the children with whom they shared the literature of the Southwest. The site includes book reviews, K-8 students' responses to the books, and/or lesson plans for more than 100 children's picture books about the Southwest. There are also interviews with some of the author/illustrators of these titles. In addition to a complete index, there are genre indexes for bilingual books, folktales, informational books, and poetry.
Google It: "Southwest Children's Literature"

Book Reviews, Children's Voices, and Lesson Plans:
Informational Books
Lizards for Lunch: A Roadrunner's Tale by Conrad Storad, illustrated by Beth Neely and Dan Rantz, reviewed by Lisa Martin
Lisa will also share references to other lesson plans from the site.

Bilingual Books (Spanish-English)
My Name is Jorge on Both Sides of the River: Poems in English and Spanish by Jane Medina, illustrated by Fabricio Vanden Broeck, reviewed by Gustavo Angeles
Gustavo will share his experience of linking children's literature and technology as well as the impact of the book on the school community.

Main Index (Picture Books Included)
Moon Song by Byrd Baylor, illustrated by Ronald Himler, reviewed by Jackie Andes-Ertmann
Jackie will also share an illustrator interview with Ronald Himler.

Folktales
Magic of Spider Woman by Lois Duncan, illustrated by Shonto Begay, reviewed by Judi Moreillon
Judi will also share the world-wide response to the site.