The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate is a moving story of friendship, beautifully told. The story is narrated by Ivan, a gorilla living in a run-down shopping mall exhibit. When Ruby, a baby elephant, comes to join him, Ivan makes a promise to save her from life in the mall. If you haven't yet experienced this award-winning book, you're in for a treat!

As with all our Read-Aloud Posters, the activities on our poster for The One and Only Ivan are a mix of novel and familiar activities created specifically to highlight particular aspects of the book and help readers delve a little deeper into the story. Our Spotlight blog post examines both the novel aspects of the poster reviews activities that might seem familiar to you if you’ve completed other Read-Aloud Posters.

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Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery is one of our most requested Read-Aloud Poster titles, and with good reason. We love Anne's energy and optimism, her love of words and her ability to turn a phrase; we may even see a little of ourselves in her tendency to get herself into tight (and funny!) situations. Our Read-Aloud Poster is the perfect way to enjoy this classic with your own family, whether it's been a favorite of yours since childhood, or you're just discovering it for the first time.

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Get all the details about our May Read-Aloud Poster release for The Trumpet of the Swan, the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan who has no voice.  It joins our other E.B. White poster choice, Charlotte’s Web. We hope you’ll agree, he’s a solid choice for our first “duplicated” author, and the two books make a great pairing. This poster has some fun new map activities we know you'll love, plus old favorites like character portraits and a chapter tracker.

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Published in 1989, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is a Newbery-award winning historical fiction middle-grade novel. While you may remember it as a favorite from your own childhood, if you’ve never read it before, it’s a story you’ll enjoy hearing for the first time as you read it with your family.

Our Read-Aloud Poster for this book includes activities that will help your family understand the story itself as well as appreciate the historical and geographical context of the book. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the poster activities.

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