MARYLAND AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS

As part of your study of Maryland, you will investigate several Maryland authors.

PROCEDURES:

1. Go to the following website - http://www.sos.state.md.us/sos/kids/html/booklist.html.

2. Find “Coretta Scott King Award in Children’s Literature.”  Click on the words.

Explain in your own words why the award is given.  Then click on the 2002 winners.  Name the winners.

3. Click on Twig C. George.

Who is her mother?

What do you think the word naturalist means based on the first paragraph?

Your library owns A Dolphin Named Bob and Swimming With Sharks. Click on their titles and read the reviews.  Which one do you want to read and why?

3. Click on Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and read where she got her ideas for three books she wrote.  Summarize what you read.

4. Click on David Wisniewski.  What award did he win?

5. Finally, write a persuasive paragraph to convince me to invite one of the above authors to visit Hampstead Elementary.