Almost Time

 

Illustration Style: 

Pencil and digital color. Sometimes they fill the entire page, sometimes they don’t. The focus of each page is narrow, but doesn’t feel lacking in content. The childlike style works with the point of view the story is told from.

Author Website:

https://www.hmhbooks.com/author/Gary-Schmidt/2230485

Illustrator Website:

https://www.gbriankaras.com/

Craft:

https://rhythmsofplay.com/fall-leaves-black-glue-watercolor-resist-art/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=pinterest&utm_campaign=tailwind_tribes&utm_content=tribes

https://www.firefliesandmudpies.com/graded-maple-syrup-playdough/

Videos:

Read Aloud

How Maple Syrup is Made!

Outdoor Activities:

https://www.mainetourism.com/restaurants/maple-sugar-houses/

https://kidsendehors.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Kids-Tree-Identification-Scavenger-Hunt-for-the-Northeast.pdf

Food Connections:

http://adventuresinmommydom.org/canada-unit-elementary/

Articles/Posts/Activities About the Author/Illustrator/Book:

https://scbwikitetales.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/author-gary-schmidt-know-your-history-balance-your-time-and-write-the-hard-stuff/

http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=921

(Literature Connections Base on: Theme, topic, characters, setting, curriculum connections)

Related Fiction Titles:

Sugarbush Spring by Marsha Wilson Chall, illustrated by Jim Daly

Sugaring by Jessie Haas, illustrated by Jos. A. Smith

Related Nonfiction Titles:

Sap to Syrup by Inez Snyder

A Kid’s Guide to Maple Tapping: Let’s make maple syrup by Julie Fryer

Can You Hear the Trees Talking? by Peter Wohlleben

Related Poetry Titles:

The Wisdom of Trees by Lita Judge

Other Books by the Author:

(Gary D. Schmidt)

The Wednesday Wars

Okay for Now

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

What Came from the Stars

So Tall Within

A Long Road on a Short Day

(Elizabeth Stickney)

A Long Road on a Short Day

One Smart Sheep

Other Books by the Illustrator:

The Village Blacksmith

The Dinosaur Expert

Night Job

Make Way for Readers

A Hat for Mrs. Goldman

More-igami

As an Oak Tree Grows

Ivan: The remarkable true story of a shopping mall gorilla

I Like Fish

The Apple Orchard Riddle

And more