Red Clover Books

Today we had our Red Clover Books celebration!

What makes a Red Clover Book?

Each year a committee of librarians, teachers, and sponsors reviews all picture books published in the prior year and chooses ten stellar picture books as the Red Clover books for the next school year. The books are considered in their entirety when chosen; both text and illustrations must be considered exemplary.

How did Red Clover Books get started?

The Red Clover book program was started in Windham County by Eileen Christelow, author of the Five Little Monkeys books, The Great Pig Escape, and many other books. Jessie Haas, another of our beloved children's book authors, best known for her horse books and her picture books of rural farm life, named the program after the state flower of Vermont, the red clover. After one year as a Windham county program, the Red Clover book program went statewide, and today children in grades Kindergarten through 4th grade throughout the state of Vermont read the Red Clover books and vote for their favorite each April.

Every student at PPS got to hear two different books and complete a project associated with the book they were read.  We really loved this activity because we got to work with students in different grades from different rooms- it was awesome! 

During math we learned a new pattern-block game: Check out these awesome first graders trying to get their partner to blindly build the same structure as them!