The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Get Well, Good Knight
When his three dragons come down with terrible colds, Good Knight must find the perfect cure to make them well once again.
- Questions: What are some remedies for colds or flu? What makes you feel better? What can you do to stay healthy? Who else could the knight have asked for help?
- Research: Knights, dragons, medieval times
- Compare: Good Night, Good Knight, St. George and the Dragon, Cowardly Clydeother books about knights, dragons, medieval
- Language: discuss homonyms, create a reader’s theater
of the story
- Good Night, Good Knight by Shelly Moore Thomas
- Do Knights Take Naps by Kathy Tucker
- Raising Dragons by
Jerdine Nolen
- King Arthur and the Round Table by Hudson Talbott
- Saint George and the
Dragon by Margaret Hodges
- Knights in Shining Armor and Behold–The Dragons! by Gail Gibbons