We’re excited to announce our selection of authors and books that have been chosen for the 2014-2015. We took much time and consideration in selecting and we invite you to follow along and join in the fun with your child at home or your class at school.
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This year my cohosts +Kristina Buskirk from Toddler Approved and +Cerys Parker from Rainy Day Mum have hand selected 3 books to featured from our selected list of favorite authors to give you a more comprehension list of activities to complete with the books read. We hope it will inspire you to spend a month with an author involved in hands on literacy inspired activities. These featured activities will be ideal for a family looking to enrich literacy at home, homeschoolers, preschool and kindergarten classroom teachers and even to make your own love books packages to send to someone special.
Are you ready to see which popular authors made the list?
The Virtual Book Club for Kids will be hosted on the 2nd Thursday of each Month.
Here’s the calendar dates to put into your personal calendar. We’re sharing all the authors with you now so you can start reserving at the library or building up your own personal home library with some of our favorite books. I’m attaching our Amazon Affiliate link to each image if you choose to purchase a book on our list, The Educators’ Spin On It will get a small portion from Amazon at no additional cost to you to help us provide this free curriculum to parents and teacher. Thanks for your support!
Virtual Book Club for Kids Featured Authors & Dates for 2014-2015
- September 11 – Mo Willems Activities Ideas for Mo Willems Books
- October 9 – Julia Donaldson Activity Ideas for Julia Donaldson
- November 13- Eric Litwin Activity Ideas for Eric Litwin
- December – OFF
- January 8 – Ellen Stoll Walsh Activity Ideas for Ellen Stoll Walsh
- February 12 – Dr. Seuss Activity Ideas for Dr. Seuss
- March 12 – Margaret Wise Brown
- April 9 – Laura Numeroff
- May 14 – Eric Carle
- June 11 – Leo Lionni
- July 9 – Donald Crews
- August 13 – Bill Martin Jr.
Virtual book Club for Kids Featured Books for 2014-2015
Here’s all of the books that we will be featuring as part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids. Both Amanda and Kim will be sharing their fun ideas to encourage children to fall in love with books. Activities will focus on Literacy, Math, Science, Arts and More! Keep checking back on the second Thursday of the month for our ideas shared PLUS all of the other hosting websites! You’re invited to Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest updates!
Leave a comment below for us if you’re joining us this year!
September 11 – Mo Willems– Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Knuffle Bunny, The Duckling Gets a Cookie
Activities Ideas for Mo Willems Books
October 9– Julia Donaldson– Gruffalo, Stick Man, Room on the Broom
Activity Ideas for Julia Donaldson
November 13– Eric Litwin– Pete the Cat: I Love My White Socks, Pete the Cate: His Four Groovy Buttons, Pete the Cat Rock in My School Shoes
Activity Ideas for Eric Litwin
December– Holiday Books OFF
January 8– Ellen Stoll Walsh– Mouse Paint, Mouse Count, Mouse Shapes
Activity Ideas for Ellen Stoll Walsh
February 12– Dr Seuss– One Fish Two Fish, Cat and the Hat, The Lorax
Activity Ideas for Dr. Seuss
March 12- Margaret Wise Brown– Goodnight Moon, The Important Book, Runaway Bunny
April 9-Laura Numeroff– If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If you Give a Pig a Pancake, If you Give a Moose a Muffin,
May 14– Eric Carle– The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Tiny Seed, The Mixed Up Chameleon
June 11– Leo Lionni– A Color Of His Own, Swimmy, Little Blue and Little Yellow
July 9– Donald Crews – The Freight Train, 10 Black Dots, Truck
August 13- Bill Martin Jr.– Chicka Chick Boom Boom, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Chicka Chicka 1,2,3
There you have it all of the books and authors that we will be featuring in the Virtual Book Club for kids this year. Come join the fun!
Are you interested in participating in Virtual Book Club for Kids this year? If so, here’s what to do…
1. Add the dates to your calendar and start reserving or finding your books!
2. Pick at least one book each month to read with your child.
3. Do a book inspired craft or activity after you read the book.
4. Come stop by on the second Thursday of the month and tell us what you did here in the COMMENTS or over on our Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook page!
We would love for you to join us this year by sharing your book selection from our 3 choices each month and then sharing your book related activity on our Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook page. We will not be hosting a blog hop like we’ve done the past two years. For our new format we will be featuring each month our book related ideas plus a few from hand selected bloggers who we will be introducing to you very soon! Are you ready to join the Virtual Book Club for Kids?
Printable Book List for Virtual Book Club for Kids
Print this list out and keep it on your refrigerator as a reminder to join us each month! Plus you can bring it to the library when you check out books! {Click to PRINT NOW}
You’ll find even more ideas shared for Books and Activities by following along!
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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to book and authors at Amazon Affiliates. All opinions expressed are my own and developed after 21 years of parenting and teaching.
Looking forward to using these activities for my 3 year old son Christian. Awesome 🙂
LOVE LOVE LOVE this site!!!!
This month I found a "Pete's Shoes" easy reader book that my kids made and read to Kindergarten buddies…they loved it!
Oh YAY!! I'm totally joining in!! Can't wait to read up some excitement and fun filled activitites with my homeschooling treasures!! Love the list and the books!! YAY! 🙂
Smiles Sharnee 🙂
After reading "Charlie Cook's Favorite Book" the first graders each drew and wrote about their favorite book. 🙂
what a great list of books
Would love to join:) lovely stories to read to my 2year old.
looking forward to participating with my grandchildren!
Looking forward to doing this with my 2 year old and 3 year old. They love books.
We have just picked up the September books, and are ready to go!
The ideas shared will be perfect to do for preschool with your 2 year olds, so glad you're joining us Christina!
I'm really excited to participate in this with you all! I'm an avid reader and am working to instill the love of books into my almost 2 yo. We have most of the books on this list already, so I'm excited to see some 'fresh' ones to add to our library!
A little late in the game but will def be joining you, my 2.5 yr old loves books & with a newborn in tow this makes an excellent choice as we can make getting the books from library etc part of the activity. Look forward to seeing the activities gillian
So excited to be doing this with my first grade class!
I'll be joining with another mom. We are starting "preschool" with our two 2 yo boys and this will be a great start for some ideas. Thanks for sharing!
We're glad you found us, 3 years old will be the perfect age to enjoy!
So glad that you're hosting again this year, you always have the best ideas that you share!
Thanks for joining @Rachel! We're pretty excited about this new season too!
You will love it! Thanks for joining the fun!
So glad to have you joining us Bethany!
So glad you're joining the Virtual Book Club for Kids! Let us know if you have any questions.
That's the same age as my littlest one, hope you guys enjoy the Virtual Book Club for Kids!
I'm so glad you found us Sara! Welcome! Looking forward to sharing ideas for your Toddler and Preschooler! The library should have most of the books on our list which makes it so much easier to follow along.
Thanks Ana for sharing with your friends, we'd love to see how it goes and encourage you to share in the comments on event pages or on our facebook page.
So glad you're joining us and your kids will be the perfect ages to enjoy the activities.
Joining with my 2 and 5 year old boys and sharing with all my friends with kids!
We're going to give it a try!
joining in with 3 2 1/2 year olds
Just discovered you guys and this GREAT idea! We will definitely be participating. I was running out of ideas on things to do with both my 15month old and my 3 1/2 year old boys. Loved the idea! and looking forward to it. A 2nd trip to the library this week 😉
We'll be joining in, too!
We will be joining, can't wait!
We'll be joining in!
It's my first time to join this. So excited about it!
Excited to take part in this for the first time – looking forward to the activities for my nearly 3 year old.
Mine too Emma! So glad you're following along, can't wait to see what you share too!
Can't wait! I just recently started staying home full time with my 2 year old while my 4 year old is in preschool during the day. This will be so much fun for us!
Such a fun line-up. So happy to be joining in again this year!
Some of my all-time favorite children's authors are on this list! Looking forward to following along!