Library Basics
What is eating and drinking next to them?
Where to find picture books, leveled readers, look and find, and more?
What is the Easy Section?
Picture books are organized A-Z by author's last name. Fiction chapter books are organized by genre and then A-Z by author's last name.
Non-fiction books are organized by a numbers and letters system, including decimal points. The system is called the:
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
A book of definitions
What is a dictionary?
Fables are short stories that tell a lesson or a moral, and often have animals with human qualities. Giving animals and objects human or PERSON qualities in books is called...
What is Personification?
Babies love books, but can rip them or color in them! These family favorites can find the books tasty!
What are pets?
Where to find books with factual information
What is the non-fiction section?
These books, found in the 100s section show strange images that seem to pop off the page or that, if you stare long enough, you will see pictures within pictures--you are look at an optical...
What is an optical illusion?
A book of synonyms (different words with similar meanings)
What is a thesaurus?
John Henry, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Swamp Angel are all these types of exaggerated stories
What are Tall Tales?
The Shelf Markers help us to do this when browsing for books
What is keep our spot on the shelf?
Section to find books containing definitions, maps, etc.
What is the reference section?
Ma and Pa and Mary and Laura and Carrie
Name the classic series of a family who moves west from the woods in Wisconsin
What is the Little House Series?
A book of maps
What is an atlas?
These are the differences between an autobiography and a biography
What is: a biography is written by an author about someone else's life, while an autobiography is a person writing about their own life?
Spines face out on the shelves for this reason
What is So everyone can read the title?
Section where you can find books ranging from realistic stories, science fiction, historical stories, sports stories, mysteries and more
What is Fiction?
Hombre Perro is the Spanish language version of this popular tale of a hero K9
What is Dog Man?
A book, or set of books, with information on many topics, organized from A-Z. A boy detective is like this book...
What is an encyclopedia?
Name 3 elements of a story
What are Plot, Setting, Characters, Problem, Solution, Sequence of Events,
It's the circle of books!! Come check out and return books at this "desk"
What is the circulation desk?
Section where you find books that tell about people's lives
What is the biography section?
This wordless picture book trilogy, by Aaron Becker, set at first, in the big city, takes us into a magical world, following a little girl with red chalk and a little boy with purple chalk in the book that started it all
What is Journey?
(Followed by Quest and Return)
A calendar book with important dates and predictions for weather...The Farmer's one is the most famous!
What is an almanac?
398.2 is this specific section of world-wide told stories
What are folk and fairytales?