The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Biscuit’s New Trick
When his owner takes him outside to teach him a new trick, Biscuit decides to show her a little something special he taught himself.
Author: Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Illustrator: Pat Schories
- Speaker: Vet, pet care, pet training
- Reading: read the book as a group (overhead or projector), read other Biscuit books and find favorite
- Art: Draw Biscuit or pets
- Bring: Stuffed dogs, have a pet parade, teach them tricks
- Treats: Puppy chow
- Skills: Hunt for “dog bones” in room/library (location
skills)
- Sing: How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
- Compare: Dear Mrs.
LaRue, Bad Dog School
- Writing: Create your own Biscuit book
- Biscuit books by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
- McDuff Goes to School by Rosemary Wells
- Bad Dog School by Barbara M. Joosee
- Bad Dog, Dodger by
Barbara Abercrombie
- Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
- The Amazing, the
Incredible Super Dog by Crosby Newell Bonsall
- Puppy Training and Critters Too! by Judy Petersen-Fleming and Eric Fleming
- Why Do Dogs Bark?
by Joan Holub