New York

New York took us a bit longer than usual, because we had an extra long reading list, but we really enjoyed reading about so many interesting people and about the creation of a number of NY landmarks from Central Park to the Statue of Liberty to the balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!

Books:

• New York (A True Book: My United States) by Cody Crane

• E is for Empire: A New York State Alphabet by Ann E. Burg

• Dropping In On New York City

• The Big Rock by Bruce Hiscock

• The Big Tree by Bruce Hiscock

• Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp Revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret by Jess Keating

• Lizzie Demands A Seat! Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights By Beth Anderson

• She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown

• Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 by Michelle Markel

• Patricia’s vision: The Doctor Who Saved Sight by Michelle Lord

• Look Up With Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars by Jennifer Berne

• Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty by Linda Glaser

• A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park by Ashley Benham Yazdani

• How Emily Saved the Bridge by Frieda Wishinsky

• Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

• Who Is Sonia Sotomayor? By Megan Stine

• Molly, by golly! : the legend of Molly Williams, America's first female firefighter by Dianne Ochiltree 

• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

• Jacob Riis’s Camera by Alexis O’Neill

• The Empire State Building by Lisa Bullard

• The Erie Canal by Lisa Bullard

• Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers by Karen B. Winnick

• Watch the Stars Come Out by Riki Levinson

• The Story of the Statue of Liberty by Betsy Maestro

• Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers

• You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman

• The Erie Canal by Peter Spier

• The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift

• Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet

• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

• Areli is a Dreamer by Areli Morales

• The Cot in the Living Room by Hilda Burgos

• Goodbye Havana! Hola New York! By Edie Colon

• The Hindenburg Disaster by Peter Benoit

• Flat Stanley: Lost in New York by Kate Egan

• Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar (maybe for me to read…)

• The New York Mets by Mark Stewart :)

• Saffron Ice Cream by Rashin Kheiriyeh

• This Very Tree by Sean Rubin

• Tigers and Tea with Toppy by Barbara Kerley (because Eva like tigers)

• Under New York by Linda High

• Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg

• Jake Makes a World by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

• My Hands Sing the Blues by Jeanne Harvey

• Harlem Renaissance Party by Faith Ringgold

• Rebecca American Girl books

• Samantha American Girl books

• All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Art Project:

Statue of Liberty and NY Skyline

For New York the kids wanted to depict the Statue of Liberty. The buildings and statue are colored sharpie, with oil pastel for the color on the pedestal and for the waves, and watercolors for water and sky.