The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Aero and Officer Mike: Police Partners
A photo essay about a police dog and his human partner at work and play.
Author: Joan Plummer Russell
Photographer: Kris Turner Sinnenberg
Photographer: Kris Turner Sinnenberg
- Questions: Why is the dog named Aero? Why do the police use German Shepherds? What can dogs do that people can not? What kind of training do police dogs need?
- Guests: Police officer, police dog
- Research: Working dogs, famous dogs, rescue dogs
- Careers: Interview police officer about his job
- Writing: Write/email police, dog
- Compare: Biscuit, Dear Mrs. LaRue, Gloria, etc
- Retell a part of the story: Point of view of Aero
- Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman
- Sammy, Dog Detective
by Collen Stanley Bare
- A Day with Police Officers by Jan Kottke
- The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto by Natalie Standiford
- Bad Dog by Nina Laden
- Sherman Crunchley by Laura Joffe Numeroff