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Toni Buzzeo was born in Dearborn, Michigan, and lived there until she moved to Maine at the age of twenty-seven to live in a colonial farmhouse on thirty five acres of an old farm. As a child and teen in Dearborn, she read voluminous piles of books from the public library to herself and to her brothers and sisters. It’s no wonder that her first job was as a page at the main library downtown. As a teen, Toni spent hours at the kitchen table copying her favorite poems into spiral-bound notebooks. She credits the reading and studying of these poems with teaching her the intricacies of writing. At age 18, while attending college at night, she took a full-time job as a library clerk and then held successively more professional jobs at various public libraries until she earned her masters in library and information science and began her career as a school library media specialist for which she earned the 1999 Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year award. In addition, she began to write seriously for children in 1995 and after writing and submitting her work to editors for five years, landed her first book contract in 2000. In that same year, Toni received SCBWI's Barbara Karlin Grant for the manuscript of The Sea Chest, which became her first published book in 2002. Published by Dial Books and illustrated by Mary GrandPré, it won the 2002 Lupine Award and the 2005 Crown Gallery Award. Her Dawdle Duckling series is popular with children everywhere, and Little Loon and Papa has a special meaning for those who hear the mysterious music of the loons. Her TWO most recent picture books, Our Librarian Won’t Tell Us ANYTHING! and Fire Up With Reading!, draw on her years of personal experience as a wiley and cool school librarian. Toni is also the author of a number of books for reading and library professionals including: Toni Buzzeo and YOU, Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers (co-authored with Jane Kurtz), 35 Best Books for Teaching U.S. Regions, and three books on Collaborating to Meet Standards, which model teacher and librarian partnerships. When she is not traveling all over the country, visiting schools, speaking at conferences, and offering district trainings in collaboration, Toni lives with her husband Ken in that old farmhouse in Maine. Their son Topher lives nearby in Somerset, Massachusetts and is the author of his own first book, Practical Ruby Projects. |
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R Is for Research Cal D. Cat returns to the library, and this time he and his friends are working on a research assignment! The cute kitty from L is for Library shadows students around the media center as they follow a recommended research strategy through the alphabet. The corresponding library lessons contain instructions and reproducibles, as well as a resource list and the content standards covered in the lesson. Awards |
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Fire Up with Reading: A Mrs. Skorupski Story Mrs. Skorupski is bringing fire-breathing dragons to Liberty Elementary, and you can bring them to your school, too! In a school-wide challenge, Liberty’s students see who can read the most minutes and place 5,000 scales on their paper dragons. Patty Lee desperately wants to be the top reader in the fourth grade and earn the right to wear the dragon costume in the parade—but will Carmen Rosa Pena read her out of the running? Patty Lee turns to Mrs. Skorupski for a new plan that might put her at the top. The race is on as Patty Lee devours books, read-alouds and audio books. |
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Read, Perform, Learn Two: 10 Reader's Theater Activities for Literacy Learning Following on the success of Read! Perform! Learn! (UpstartBooks 2006), Toni Buzzeo has created a second volume of ten Reader's Theater scripts from published picture books. Each script captures the wonder of the original while rendering it just right for performance. Each script is accompanied by an author interview and standards-based curriculum activities for great learning opportunities in the classroom and library that extend the book. Included in this volume are Axle Annie and the Speed Grump by Robin Pulver, Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles, and The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies, among others. |
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Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for K-6, Second Edition A must-have revised edition of the popular Collaborating to Meet Standards series. This hands-on guide for elementary school library media specialists and teachers offers an introduction to collaboration, including a history and overview of the movement, practical suggestions for implementing the collaborative process, useful ideas for overcoming common roadblocks to collaboration, a simple, easy-to-adapt template that enhances unit planning, and eighteen collaborative units with assessments that have been successfully implemented in elementary library media centers nationwide, including units that integrate information skills with science, social studies, language arts and more. |
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Our Librarian Won't Tell Us Anything! "Mrs. Skorupski won't tell you ANYTHING!" That's what Carmen, a fourth-grader at Liberty Elementary, tells everyone about the school librarian. Fortunately, her new classmate Robert doesn't believe her and marches right over to ask Mrs. Skorpuski question after question. Mrs. Skorupski's eyes twinkle and her rhinestone glasses sparkle as she leads Robert to the tools he needs to find the answers. Carmen scowls as she watches Robert become a Library Success Story, but eventually comes around as she realizes that Mrs. Skorupski can teach them ANYTHING! Join Robert and Carmen in the wonderful and wacky world of Mrs. Skorupski's library and you, too, can be a Library Success Story. |
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Ready or Not, Dawdle Duckling In every family there is one dreamer, the one who swims to the sound of his own drummer. Dawdle is that duckling, always looking for fun, excitement, something new, whether within his imagination or outside in the wide world. But will he get more than he's bargained for? |
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Dawdle Duckling In every family there is one dreamer, the one who swims to the sound of his own drummer. Dawdle is that duckling, always looking for fun, excitement, something new, whether within his imagination or outside in the wide world. But will he get more than he's bargained for? Awards |
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Little Loon and Papa It's time for diving lessons, but Little Loon is too nervous. When he rushes away without trying, he encounters a shoreline full of strangers with their splashes, crashes, and growls. Where is Papa now that Little Loon might be in over his head? Awards |
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The Sea Chest As they watch for the arrival of a long-awaited stranger, Maita tells her great-grandniece the story of her remarkable childhood. Living sheltered on a lighthouse island with only her parents for company, Maita would bake pumpkin pies, tend to the hens, spin stories, and long for a time when she might not be the only child the ragged island knew. And then one icy night, howling winds blew wave after wave against the shore, and from that fearsome storm came a sea chest—a gift that would change Maita's life forever. From a beguiling legend, Toni Buzzeo has fashioned this exquisitely lyrical, intimate tale, illustrated in stirring, vibrant paintings by Mary GrandPré. Together they have created a book of classic beauty and resonance. Awards |
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Collaborating to Meet Standards: These standards-based, easy-to-follow collaborative lessons will not only build a strong bridge between the school library and the classroom, but will help educators help students improve their skills and scores. Written for elementary school library media specialists and their K-2 teaching partners, this book coaches readers on methods to meet student literacy standards. In this “balanced literacy” age, collaboration is a perfect means to address national, state, and local literacy standards. |
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Read! Perform! Learn! 10 Reader's Theater Liven up your library lessons with fun reader’s theater programs! The ten scripts in Read! Perform! Learn! make it easy for all of your students to be involved in each performance. Each chapter includes an introduction to the book and script, an author interview, the reader’s theater script and corresponding activities that connect to content standards. Scripts for Dinosnores, The Recess Queen, Chicken Soup by Heart, Mudball and many more popular books are included. |
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Toni Buzzeo and You Playing on the phrase, "The author and you," a commonly taught reading comprehension strategy that teaches the learner how to look at the words of an author and make inferences about what is being said, this series will assist teachers and teacher-librarians in understanding the underlying purposes of the author as they prepare learning activities for their students. The series focuses primarily on books for the elementary age child (K-6), featuring insights into the author's background, purposes and goals in writing books. By furnishing an overview of the author's works, the books in the series give teachers the big picture. Each book features personal information about the author, including insights into why this author has chosen to write in a specific genre plus lesson plans and/or activities for each of the author's books featured. These lessons will stress the particular interest of the author and the "author and you (the teacher)" will build a collaborative instructional relationship using the material provided. Each book is written by the featured author or in close collaboration with the author. Using family photographs, reminiscences, anecdotes and stories, Toni Buzzeo relates her lifelong preparation to become a writer. The book features wonderful insights into the creation of her picture books for children and interesting creative lesson activities to use with students. Grades K-6. |
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Collaborating to Meet Standards: Demystify the collaborative process with these hands-on guides, one for elementary library media specialists and teachers and one for secondary library media specialists and teachers. Collaboration is much more than just the latest buzzword. It is a worthwhile concept that can greatly benefit library media specialists, teachers, students, and administrators alike. And if it is done correctly, collaborative planning and teaching can help to meet educational standards. |
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Collaborating to Meet Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships Grades 7-12 These straightforward resources presents methodology and models to assist elementary and secondary school library media specialists in their efforts to work collaboratively with teachers. Each of the fully developed units included are standards-based, and provide opportunities for students to master information literacy skills as outlined in Information Power while they also work on content area learning. These examples demonstrate the versatility of the template, which can be used across the curriculum in an endless variety of applications, resulting in full compliance with various benchmarks and standards. |
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35 Best Books for Teaching U.S. Regions Take your students on a learning-packed trip across the U.S. with books they'll love! This resource includes background information, activity ideas, reproducibles, and Internet connections to help you use 35 great novels as springboards to social studeis learning. A great way to get your kids to read more deeply—and learn more about the seven U.S. regions. |
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Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Stortellers: Real Space and Virtual Links Transform author visits from tenuous to terrific with this exciting new resource! Created by a nationally known children’s author and a practicing library media specialist, this book goes beyond the traditional approach to author visits to explore new possibilities opened by the Internet and other technologies. It helps teachers and librarians create the best possible encounters between students, authors, illustrators, and storyteller—in the classroom, library, or even cyberspace. Buzzeo and Kurtz describe dozens of successful visits, offering specific ideas on the many ways to connect with and create meaningful links between bookpeople and children. Every step of the process is detailed, from choosing the right guest and successfully contacting bookpeople to make arrangements for the event to making the most of the visit with curriculum connections and learning extensions. Readers will also learn how to take advantage of technology (e.g, the Internet, ITB, satellites) to maximize their budgets and add even more excitement to their programs. Spotlight sections on authors, illustrators, and storytellers offer close-up views of some of the possibilities, and lists of author/illustrator Web pages and managed Internet sites for author interaction help connect educators with potential guests. |
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