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Great Books for Gifted Kids Vol. 4


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On this episode Jamie MacDougall, Jennifer Williams and Glenna Lykens will discuss some great books for gifted children to read. Here is a full list of all their choices.
Books Recommended by Jennifer Williams
- After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) by Dan Santat
- The Alphabet Room by Sara Pinto
- The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater
- Beatrice Zinker, Upside Down Thinker by -
Shelley Johannes
- The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
- The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
- The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
- Little Red Ruthie: A Hanukkah Tale by Gloria Koster
- Books by Peter Reynolds:
- The Word Collector (January 2018)
- Happy Dreamer
- The Smallest Gift of Christmas
- Someday
- Going Places
Books Recommended by Glenna Lykens
- After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got -
- Back Up Again) by Dan Santat
- Blue Sky White Stars by Sarvinder Naberhaus (illus. by Kadir Nelson)
- The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
- Chasing Space Young Readers' Edition by Leland Melvin
- Come With Me by Holly M. McGhee
- The Distance to Home by Jenn Bishop
- Dory Fantasmagory (series) by Abby Hanlon
- Frank and Lucky Get Schooled by Lynn Rae Perkins
- Freedom Over Me by Ashley Bryan
- I Love Science: A Journal for Self--
- Discovery and Big Ideas by Rachel Ignotofsky
- I Survived (series) by Lauren Tarshis
- If Sharks Disappeared by Lily Williams
Ivy by Katherine Coville
- Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco
- Land of Stories (series) by Chris Colfer
- Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein
- Out of Wonder by Kwame Alexander
- The Origami Yoda series by Tom Angleberger
- The Poet's Dog by Patricia MacLachlan
- Round by Joyce Sidman
- Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson
- Swimming with Sharks by Heather Lang
- The True Gift by Patricia MacLachlan
- Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems by Bob Raczka
- What in the World? by National Geographic Kids
- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
- Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers -
- Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
Books recommended by Jamie MacDougall
All books on this list were published in 2017
- You Can Read by Becker and Hoffman
- The Thing Lou Couldn't Do by Spires
- Away by Emil Sher
- The Book of Mistakes by Corrina Luyken
- The Bad Seed by John and Oswald
- Creepy Pair of Underwear by Peter Reynolds
- LaLaLa by Kate DiCamillo
- Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet -
- Earth by Oliver Jeffers
- Love by de la Pena and Long
- I Am Enough by Grace Beyers
- I Am Peace by Susan Verde
- The Antlered Ship by Slater and Fan
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality by Winter & Innerst
- Beatrice Zinker Upside Down Thinker by Shelly Johannes
- Hortense and the Shadow by O'Hara and O'Hara
- Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth by Davies and Sutton
- Schomburg: The Man Who Build a Library by Boston-Weatherford & Velasquez
- Animal Asanas: Yoga for Children by Kadri-Oostendorp & Bahia
- My Museum by Joanne Liu
- See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
- Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
- Felix YZ by Lisa Bunker
- As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
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