The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School
Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.
- Point of view: 2 points of view in the story, Respond to dog’s letters as Mrs. LaRue
- Questions: What do dogs learn at obedience school?
- Guests: dog trainer show dog training, vet talk about pet care, pet groomer
- Writing: create a newspaper articles about things dogs do, write a letter from your dog to you. What would the dog like, want, complain about?
- Storytelling: naughty things your dog did
- Detective LaRue: Letters
from the Investigation by Mark Teague
- Bad Dog School by Barbara M. Joosee
- McDuff Goes to School by Rosemary Wells
- Arthur's New Puppy by Marc Brown
- Perfectly Martha by Susan Meddaugh
- Bad Dog Dodger! by Barbara Abercrombie