Name that Dewey Category
Parts of a Book
Reference materials
Picture Books
Fiction Books
100
In this Dewey category are books about plants, birds, animals, dinosaurs, chemistry, and math
What are the 500's?
100
A person who writes books
What is an author?
100
A book or database that lists the words of a language in alphabetical order along with their meanings and pronunciations
What is a dictionary?
100
Some of my famous books are Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat.
Who is Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)?
100
Henry's dog in Cynthia Rylant's books
Who is Mudge?
200
In this Dewey category you will find books about sports, movies, dancing, singing...
What are the 700's?
200
The person who draws the pictures or takes the photographs for a book
What is an illustrator?
200
A book or database filled with words that have similar meanings
What is a thesaurus?
200
A big red dog
Who is Clifford?
200
National Espionage Rescue and Defense Society or a group of 5th grade super spies in the book series of that name
What do the letters NERDS stand for?
300
In this Dewey category you will find books about different world religions, mythology...
What are the 200's?
300
The year something was published or updated
What is the copyright date?
300
A book or database filled with information on a wide variety of subjects
What is an encyclopedia?
300
We live in a big tree house down a sunny dirt road in bear country.
Who are the Berenstain Bears?
300
The genre of a book in which either the setting, some characters, an event, or a time period is true but other parts may be fictional
What is historical fiction?
400
In this Dewey category you will find folktales and books about government, the military...
What are the 300's?
400
The company that makes the book
What is a publisher?
400
A book or database of maps
What is an atlas?
400
In this book, I said "Good Night" to everything in my room before I could fall asleep.
What is Good Night, Moon?
400
I wrote Captain Underpants and Ricky Ricotta robot books.
Who is Dav Pilkey?
500
In this Dewey category are geography and history subjects.
What are the 900's?
500
The place in the front of a book that tells you where you can find topics in a book
What is the Table of Contents?
500
A book of useful facts that may include weather predictions, facts about the tides, the time the sun will rise and set, and other useful information
What is an almanac?
500
The picture book section in our library
What is the E for Everybody section?
500
I solve mysteries from the beginning of the alphabet to the end.
What is the A to Z mystery series?
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