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Celebrate Read Across America! Read Across America Is March 2, 2007 Today is Your Day! Your Mountain is Waiting…So Get on Your
Way! From There to Here, and Here to There, Funny Things Are Everywhere Don a hat. In the grand tradition of the Cat in the Hat, encourage kids to wear silly caps -- bonus points for red and white colors! Hold a Seuss-epardy! tournament. Make a Jeopardy! type of competition out of who can identify Dr. Seuss facts or rhymes. Give out prizes. If your event has one big winner or if every participant gets a treat, you can browse The Seuss Shop for mugs, posters, pencils, and more! Plant Truffula Trees. Weather-permitting, go outdoors and do a little gardening. Best bets for recreating the Truffula Tree? Try Celosia seeds, which burst into feathery puffs of orange, crimson, rose, and pale yellow. Dusty Miller Silver Lace or Silverdust seeds grow soft white leaves, and Coleus Wizard Series seeds produce a kaleidoscope of bushy, heart-shaped leaves. Hand out Certificates of Participation. You can choose from three reproducibles to print out for those who partake in the fun. Cook Green Eggs and Ham. Stick toothpicks into tiny cubes of ham and serve with crackers. For the eggs, a little food coloring will do the trick. Doesn't sound appetizing? Try a Dr. Seuss birthday cake instead! If You Never Did, You Should. These Things are Fun, and Fun Is Good!Find printables, activities, booklists, and more to make Read Across America a big success! 100 Favorite Books for Children. As chosen by teachers. Cat in the Hat Doorknob Hanger (PDF). Shhh! Do not disturb when this is on the door -- it means it is reading time! Dr. Seuss Read and Color Word Search (PDF). How many Dr. Seuss characters can you find? Grouchy Cafe. A fantastic site for teen readers featuring the best "angst" books out there. National Education Association. The place to go if you want to join the celebration! The NEA hosts Read Across America and features whimsical ideas for the big day. Teens Read. If they're too old to read Dr. Seuss, teens can register and find what they need to read here. Today Was Good. Today Was Fun. Tomorrow Is Another One. Dr. Seuss Classics The Cat in the Hat Kid-Approved Titles for Reluctant Readers The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin. Kristy, Claudia, Mary-Ann, Stacey, and the rest of the gang have stood the test of time in the series about baby-sitting and friendship. See the complete list of books in the Baby-sitters Club series. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White. Discover the meaning of friendship in this remarkable story about Wilbur the pig and a spider named Charlotte. Garfield by Jim Davis. The comic strip series is a laugh-out-loud treat! Other great strips to hook kids on reading: Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts. Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine. For just-scary-enough thrills and chills, any Goosebumps book will do! See the complete list of books in the Goosbumps series. Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling. Voted #1 by kids (and beloved by adults too), the boy wizard is simply irresistible. Keep the first six books in supply for the big day. Visit the Harry Potter Web site. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein. Wonderful read-aloud poems for elementary schoolers and middle schoolers alike. Matilda and The BFG by Roald Dahl. These two classic Dahl stories are a perfect mix of acidic wit and sweet sentiment. Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar. Start with the silly, easy-to-read stories from Wayside school and then recommend Sachar's award-winning story-within-a-story Holes. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The coming-of-age story about the trial of a black man through the eyes of two children in the 1930s South has been passed down for generations. Lesser-Known Gems for Book Lovers A Chocolate Moose for Dinner and A Little Pigeon Toad by Fred Gwynne. The illustrations are fun for both adults who read to their little ones and independent young readers, as Gwynne displays how kids must imagine homonyms. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. Celebrate what makes a person unique in this story about a mouse with an unusual name. A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich by Alice Childress. Set in 1970s Harlem, this novel shows the life of a 13-year-old heroin addict through several characters' eyes. Monsoon Summer by Mitala Perkins. A young girl travels to India for a visit and an unexpectedly enlightening summer. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. A gripping, eloquent novel that drops readers in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac. This spine-tingling mystery can only be unlocked by Mohawk lore. Summerland by Michael Chabon. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author leads readers into a fantasy world of baseball in this rich novel. Summer Reading Is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka. Travel through a world of children's book characters in this riotous Time Warp Trio book. Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth. Western and Japanese art and life fuse in this story of three siblings and a philosophical panda bear. Cara Pitterman is a contributing writer for all areas of Scholastic.com, including the award-winning Homework Hub for kids. Her favorite Seuss tale? Hands down, The Lorax. She once planted “Truffula Trees” with her family in their California garden.
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