The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Suki’s Kimono
After a wonderful summer with her visiting grandmother, Suki decides to wear her blue cotton kimono on her first day of school where she also shares with her class tales of going to the street festival with her beloved obachan.
- Guest: Bring a real kimono or other ethnic clothing, demonstrate Japanese dance, chop sticks
- Research: Japan and map of Japan
- Art: make fish kites
- Compare: Yoko, or
other stories
- Questions: Why are Grandmas special? What presents
have you gotten from grandma? What is “cool”? What is “weird?”
How are Suki's sisters like your sisters or brothers?
- Crow Boy byTaro
Yashima
- Sadako by Eleanor
Coerr
- Yoko by Rosemary Wells
- Grandfather's Journey and Tea with Milk by Allen Say