Book Smarts
In this classic Doctor Seuss picture book, it's the name of the persistent pachyderm who protects the Whos.
Who is Horton?
It's the person who writes the book.
Who is the author?
These adjectives on a library poster describe what your voices should sound like and what your feet should look like.
What are "quiet" and "walking"?
It's the name of the award for the best picture book of the year.
What is the Caldecott Award?
This is a fancy name for books that share a certain style, form or content.
What is "genre"?
Once upon a time, we read a fairy tale about this little girl who breaks into the house of a nice family of dinosaurs.
Who is Goldilocks?
This is the person who draws the pictures for the book.
Who is the illustrator?
The number of weeks you may keep a book checked out before you need to renew it.
What is two weeks?
These are made up stories about a mysterious event which is not explained or a crime that is not solved until the end of the story to keep the reader in suspense.
What are "mysteries"?
Writing dealing with facts and events rather than the imagination.
What is nonfiction (or informational)?
In "Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things", this is the ONE thing Alvin can't do at school.
What is "speak"?
The call number on a library book always tells you where the book belongs. Find the call number on a book that Ms. Contrino hands to you.
Did you locate the spine label?
You could look up the definition of "pachyderm" in this reference book
What is a dictionary?
It's the number of Dewey Decimal categories, under which subcategories are sorted.
What is ten?
The two main categories of genre.
What are fiction and non-fiction (informational)?
In Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, etc. it's the name of the character who shows Alvin how friends act toward each other.
Who is Flea?
This lists all the chapters that are in the book. You can use this to find out what page each chapter begins on.
What is the table of contents?
It's how fiction books are organized in the library.
What is alphabetically by the author's last name?
Name an author you learned about this year.
Any author will do.
A non-fiction book about a real person's life and his/her accomplishments or events that happened during his/her life, written by someone else
What is a biography?
The Time Warp Trio (Joe, Fred, and Sam) end up being transported back in time and saving Camelot from these TWO big bads.
What are a giant and a dragon?
This names the title of the book. It also tells who wrote the book and who drew the pictures. It even tells the name of the company that published the book.
What is the title page?
This system, used to organize nonfiction books by subject in the library, was invented by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
It's the national award given to the best children's chapter book of the year.
What is the Newbery Medal?
"Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things" could really happen, which makes it an example of this kind of fiction.
What is realistic fiction?