The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Book! Book! Book!
When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do.
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Author:
Deborah Bruss
Illustrator: Tiphanie
Beeke
- Research: Farm animals
- Sing: Farmer in the Dell
- Language: alliteration, onomatopoeia
- Humor/Writing: Find other animal jokes. See if you can turn one into a story?
- Spelling: Animal sounds
- Skills: Find other books in the catalog on different animals, books, libraries, jokes
- Drama: Turn the book into readers’ theater.
- Questions: Why are the animals sad? What books do you think the animals would like to read? What else could the animals have done to entertain themselves? What if the animals had gone to a different building?
- Visit: Take
a virtual or actual trip to
your public library.
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- I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel
- Tiny goes to the Library by Cari Meister
- Can You Guess Where We Are Going? by Elvira Woodruff
- Beatrice Doesn't Want To by Laura Joffe Numeroff
- Library
Dragon by Carmen Deedy