March 2013
Web Resources
Meet Tim Wadham
Tim Wadham has been a professional librarian for twenty-seven years and is currently the director of the Puyallup Public Library in Washington State. He started his career as a children’s librarian, and children’s books are still his primary passion. After more than twenty years of sharing books with children, he published his first picture book, The Queen of France, in 2011. Prior to that, he published two books for the school and library market about one of his other strong professional interests— library services to the Spanish-speaking.
Meet the Author
Nick Glass of TeachingBooks.net interviewed Naomi Shihab Nye in her home in San Antonio, Texas, on July 16, 2012.
Additional Resources
- Storytime
Once Upon a Castle - Standards
McREL correlations for March Curriculum Connections - Curriculum Connections
“If You Lived in the Middle Ages…” discussion prompts; Literary Devices worksheet; Book Joust! game - Author Extensions: Naomi Shihab Nye
Identifying Literary Devices and Figurative Language worksheet; Activities for Nye’s picture book Baby Radar - Technology 1
Webquest: Questing for the Queen - Technology 2
Knighting Ceremony Suggestions - Library Lessons
Farm Animal Products chart; Animal Puppet Pattern instructions and reproducible pattern - Keep ’em Reading: Everyday Heroes in T-shirts and Sneakers
Activities for Those Shoes, by Maribeth Boelts