Some New Titles I'm Trying Out

When I got home the other day, there was a box from Amazon waiting for me!  I am always so excited to get some new titles and try them out as mentor text.  I've been playing with informational text a lot lately, and particularly literary non-fiction, in order to show the students that informational writing involves craft as much as narrative does.  I like to combine informational text with something more narrative in style to show that there are many ways that authors think about their audience and convey their message for different purposes.  Two of the titles that arrived with this order are and then it's spring by Julie Fogliana, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, and A Leaf Can Be... by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Violeta Dabija.  With spring just around the corner, I thought these two titles would be nice additions to my mentor text pile.  Both are truly lovely books, with a lyrical style and beautiful illustations.  I'll keep you posted on how I used them...