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There Is a Tribe of Kids
There Is a Tribe of Kids | Lane Smith
10 posts | 14 read | 4 to read
When a young boy embarks on a journey alone . . . he trails a colony of penguins, undulates in a smack of jellyfish, clasps hands with a constellation of stars, naps for a night in a bed of clams, and follows a trail of shells, home to his tribe of friends. If Lane Smith's Caldecott Honor Book Grandpa Green was an homage to aging and the end of life, There Is a Tribe of Kids is a meditation on childhood and life's beginning. Smith's vibrant sponge-paint illustrations and use of unusual collective nouns such as smack and unkindness bring the book to life. Whimsical, expressive, and perfectly paced, this story plays with language as much as it embodies imagination.
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LibrarianRyan
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Pickpick

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I love this book, but trying to say why I love it is hard. It has great woodblock style illustrations, and most of the book is putting things in families like an unkindness of ravens. It just has something I love, but I can't articulate why.
#Wintergames #teamreadnosereindeer +16

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rockpools
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I wasn‘t too sure about this one. A child explores the natural world, before coming home to his ‘tribe‘, a tribe of kids. The collective nouns (which I thought might be the point) were a slightly odd mix of imaginative and traditional.

And then I learnt that concerns had been raised by Native American scholar re the use of the word tribe, alongside images of ‘wild‘ kids, potentially perpetuating stereotypical images.

And hmmm 🤔

Severnmeadows Beautiful pictures- but wrong language. 5y
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deiacovab
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This MF-animal fantasy book follows a young child and the animals they meet on their adventure in the search for their own “tribe“. This book teaches collective nouns and could be used for GR with emergent readers. Readers can use the illustrations of animals to decode words. https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/teachers-guides/9781596436077TG.pdf provides pre-reading activities and comprehension questions to go along with the story.

deiacovab I would use ESOL strategy 6 to monitor student comprehension while reading and ask some of the questions from the resource. UDL 3.2 Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships can be used with the repetition in the book of describing groups of animals. #ucflae3414sp20 5y
DrSpalding This was a Kohl‘s cares book. I read it at the front of the store! It certainly does align with big ideas and your universal design principle.😄 5y
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WanderingBookaneer
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Great book to learn collective nouns! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Blueberry
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Clockwise starting at the top right corner: 2017 Newbury Medal Award winner, 2017 Caldicott Medal Award winner, 2017 Carnegie Medal Award winner, and Kate Greenaway Award winner. The Carnegie and the Kate Greenaway awards are England's equivalent to the U.S. Caldicott and Newberry awards.

#GoldandSilver #FallintoBooks

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Bambolina_81
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We love these books! I love sharing books with my daughter as my mum did with me 😊

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lowellette
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Picture Book Pick of the Week. Gorgeous Lane Smith illustrations accompany names of different types of groups (unkindness of ravens, formation of rocks).

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Puddlereader
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Leftover $ after farmer's market didn't last long once I walked into our local children's bookstore! Satisfying my guilty pleasures of #kidlit and shopping, all on a Saturday morning.

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AwkwardlyAlive
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Just out yesterday, a new book by one of my favorite children's authors/illustrators and it does not disappoint!! Lane Smith does a fantastic tribute to just how wild a childhood can be. Love love love.