The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Gooney Bird Greene
A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
- Dress up like Gooney
- Questions: What do you like about Gooney? Do you like tell
stories, listen to stories?
- Language: Tell absolutely true stories, discuss multiple meanings of words
- Compare: Mallory on the Move, My Name is Yoon, other school/moving stories
- Create an alternate name using parents’ initials
- Research: gooney birds
- Gooney and the Room Mother by Lois Lowry
- Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
