The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Breakout at the Bug Lab
When a giant cockroach named Max escapes from their mother's bug laboratory, Leo and his brother receive help from a mysterious stranger who advises them to think like a bug in order to recapture the runaway roach.
Author: Ruth Horowitz
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Illustrator: Joan Holub
- Math: Graph favorite bugs, use life size plastic bugs – sort by color, size, body type
- Research: hissing, cockroach, characteristics of insects,
edible bugs
- Hands on: Make a bug cage, collect insects
- Guest: Entomologist or borrow bug collection
- Treat: Make edible bugs, “McInsecta”
- Technology: Make an insect web in Kidspiration
- Sing: La Cucaracha
- Name famous bugs: Anansi, Inspector Hopper, Jiminy Cricket, Antz, A Bug’s Life
- Language: Think of idioms with insects, i. e. ants in your
pants
- Breakout at the Bug Tank by Ruth Horowitz
- Crickwing by Janell Cannon
- Leo Cockroach–Toy Tester
by Kevin O'Malley
- Bug Off! A Swarm of Insect Words by Catherine Hepworth
- Big Bug Book by Margery Facklam
- Bug Boy by Carol Sonenklar