Books Worth Reading

My Favorite 2024 Picture Books | My 5 favorite 2024 picture books. | By Mr. Colby Sharp | Hi, Colby Sharp, 5th grade teacher. Today, we're going to be talking about my five favorite picture books of 20 twenty-four. There have been so many amazing books but I thought it'd be fun to talk about five of my absolute top of the list favorites. Let's start with home in a lunchbox. If you haven't read this book, you're missing out. It's unforgettable. It's amazing. It opens up. The book really starts here in the end paper is a girl moving across the planet and here is her new home. She's going to school. Like some sayings written on her hands so she could communicate with people. Dreams of being back where she's from, Hard First Day. What I love so much about this book is just watching her try to figure out school, trying to figure out this new home, this new community and each day she has that moment when she does feel like she's home when she's in her lunchbox and watch her through that lunchbox and through that place and that feeling that makes her feel like she's at home how she's able to adjust, how she's able to start to make friends, an absolutely breathtaking book masterpiece, phenomenal home in a lunchbox. If you haven't read it, be sure to check it out. I'll try to remember to put a list of all of the books that I talk about in this video down in the description. My be my favorite book to the my favorite book to read aloud in 20twenty-four new book, Spider in the Well. Oh my gosh. Wait till you meet this newsboy, this poor kid. This poor kid is soy taking advantage of by everyone in the community and make him do all these things. He's just like happy go lucky and like totally cool with it. And then he's got figure out why people aren't getting their wishes in the well anymore. Turns out there's a spider in there. Wait till you find out what the spider's doing. Holy smokes. This is a story of lying and cheating. And people who feel like they're good but they're really not. They're kind of evil. Wild ending. It's hilarious. It's amazing. If your kids like John Clawson books they're going to love Jess Hannigan books. I'm so excited. She got a new book come out in twenty twenty-five. This is an author to keep an eye on because she's going to be doing marvelous things. Marvelous things. Look at that. Oh my gosh. Spider in the wild book too. Third, super weird book. Not going to lie. Super weird. Pepper and me. It's all about this girl and her scab. She falls down early in the story and she gets a scab. She gets this little scrape underneath and she gets a scab. She hates it. She thinks it's ugly. She wants to go away. They start talking to each other. Pepper the scab and her not a fan. Not a fan. I don't know. I I who thinks of that? Who thinks? You know what? I'm going to write a book about a girl and her scab. Dealing with her scab and their relationship with each other. Picture books are amazing. What a world that we get to live in. We have books like this. I know. Uh this has been my pick for the Cultic Cotton Metal the entire year. And that doesn't change. I mean everything about this book is gorgeous. It's beautiful. The writing is exquisite. The art is phenomenal. Um it's about this boy and his papa and they have the last farm stand in this community. Everything else is kind of close and there's still they are a way to get fresh food to people. And they're the way that they care about others. The way that this kid steps up and the grandfather can anymore. It's just a beautiful story. It's a timeless story. It's a magical story. Absolutely could not get enough of the last stand. I hope that you check it out. You'll be so I think blown away by the beauty in this book. And then finally, this is one that I came to late in the year where my friend mister Shoe added it to our call the cow is touch the sky. It's about this boy who loves the swings, you know, and he just so excited to be there and he does that thing where you like lay on your stomach and he kind of swing back and forth. It is a thing where he wraps himself up a bunch and then spins around but Vern, he can't pump. He can't do that. He's heartbroken. He wants to learn. He tries. Nothing works. Nothing works but then he meets this this hour. Meets this and she helps him try to figure it out and it's just beautiful and I really think that kids from as little as two to 3 to 13 to 33 can appreciate and love a story like Touch the Sky. This year has been filled with so many amazing picture books and these are just five of my favorites out of so many wonderful picture books that I've read. I hope you found a to add to your chewy list one that you can share with young readers when you can share with your own heart because these are books that will stay with you long after you finish reading the last pages thank you so much for tuning in my name is Colby Sharp hope you have an awesome tastic day.

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