Goodnight Baseball

Goodnight Baseball by Michael Dahl

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Goodnight Baseball
By Michael Dahl
Illustrated by Christina Forshay
Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
ISBN:9781596435575
Release date March 1, 2013

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Goodnight Baseball is a wonderful choice for a sports-themed read aloud for younger readers. It is a comfort book-easy on the eyes, easy on the ears, easy on the heart. Goodnight Baseball is about a father and son building a childhood memory together. A happy day spent at the ball park highlighted by the boy catching a high fly ball in his mitt way up in the stands. The rhyme and rhythm of author Michael Dahl's words flow smoothly and are well complimented by the vibrant illustrations of Christina Forshay. My favorite illustration is seeing the moon portrayed as a giant baseball in the sky. Predictably, towards the end of the story, we see a mirroring of Margaret Wise Brown’s well-loved Goodnight Moon. Perhaps it would be a useful literacy activity to pair the two books so students can have an opportunity to make that text-to-text connection. Librarians, take note: this one is a home run!




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The Important Things About Reading is...

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The Important Thing About Reading is...

Reading is comfortable and welcoming. It can help you through troubled times. Reading can be hard and reading can also be easy as breathing. Reading develops the mind and while allowing imaginations to bloom. It gives us new information, guides our learning,  and teaches us new ways of viewing our world. Through reading we gain a sense of ourselves-who we are and how the stories we grew up reading became a part of who we've become-our shared cultural literacy. Reading expands our world and takes us places we never dreamed even existed. Reading is our world. 

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The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown



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