David Shannon

David Shannon began his career as an illustrator for well known authors like Jane Yolen, Jon Sciezka, and Audrey Wood.

David Shannon later started writing and illustrating his own books. In 1998, one of David Shannon’s first books, No David! won a Caldecott award for illustrations.

We will begin our 3 week long author study reading No,David! During class, Nursery and Pre-Kindergarten will discuss David’s behavior and color pictures of David.

The Kindergarten and First grade children will draw pictures and tell about what kind of trouble they think David might get into next, writing their own sequels to the story.

After listening to No, David!, the Second grade children will sequence the events of the story, recalling the order they happened in the story.

Students will hear a great group of stories this month written by an author who writes stories from his experiences as a self-professed “rough and tumble” young child.

The students will be introduced to the author by watching an interview with David Shannon on Reading Rockets.

Other books by David Shannon:

Duck on a Bike

Robot

How I Became a Pirate

Pirate’s Don’t Change Diapers

David Gets in Trouble

David Goes to School

Too Many Toys

Alice the Fairy

How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball

Mrs. Stevenson