One Book, One School with Jack by Liesl Shurtliff

We are doing our One Book, One School this year with Liesl Shurtliff's Jack! For our One Book, One School, I select a book that I think would make a great read-aloud for our families, which means the book needs to have appeal for grades K-5. We have had some great choices in the past 5 years but I think Jack is another excellent choice! As in Rump, Shurtliff takes us into the fairy tale world with a fresh and engaging new twist. It is full of adventure and voice and I feel many readers/listeners in my school community will be begging for one more chapter!
Here are some of my resources I used for the One Book, One School:

• Book Trailer (Publisher-made)
• Signs for around the school
• Reading Schedule Bookmark
• Informational Letter & Family Reading Night Invitation

This year we kicked off our One Book, One School with a visit from author Liesl Shurtliff. She is a fabulous speaker - students and teachers loved her. It was a great way to get kids excited to read the book. In the past, I've always had the author come at the end, after families were finished reading. With an inspiring author like Liesl Shurtliff, I can definitely see the benefits of starting with the author! Kids were so excited to go home and start reading! She also autographed all the books for us.

To go along with the reading at home, we have a family reading night at school. I always coordinate this with my bookfair to get more people to shop. To go along with Jack, we had a fairy tale theme with stations around the school.
Here are the stations that we had and some of the resources that I used with them:

• Three Pigs Building Challenge
• Photo Booth with Fairy Tale Props 
• Puppet Pal iPad App 
• Partner Read Green Screen (Teacher Directions) 
• Imagination Writing & Viewing Book Character Pumpkins (info letter) 
• Fairy Tale Bingo (Clues; I used print-bingo.com to make boards) 
• Book fair and storyteller 

It was a great night and I received lots of compliments! If you are interested in seeing more pictures of this year's Family Reading Night, see my MRC blog post. To learn more about other One Book, One School books we've done, see this presentation from my state library conference (ISLMA).

Now my only problem is what in the world are we going to read next year?? :)