Parts of a Book
This is the part of the book that faces out on the shelf.
What is the spine?
This is the area where I will find picture books.
Where is Easy or the Everyone section?
This is the person I go to for help in the library.
Who is the librarian, Mrs. Bailey?
I am reading a factual book about earthquakes.
What is nonfiction?
I am reading the series Magic Treehouse.
What is reading for enjoyment?
In a non-fiction book, you look here to find the subjects and pages.
What is the table of contents?
This is the area where I will find chapter books.
Where is Easy Chapter books, or F, Fiction.
This is the person that writes the words in a book.
Who is the author?
I am reading a fiction book about the revolutionary war.
What is historical fiction?
I am using this reference book to find out how to spell a word.
What is a dictionary?
This is the part of the book that tells us where the book lives on the shelf..
What is the call number or the spine label?
This is the area that I would find factual books that are organized by the Dewey Decimal system.
Where is the non-fiction section?
This is the person that creates the pictures in a book.
Who is the illustrator?
I am reading verses or lyrics that may or may not rhyme.
What is poetry?
I am trying to find out the state flag for South Dakota looks like.
What is research?
This the page where I can find out the title, the author, the illustrator and the publishing company.
What is the title page?
This is where I go to find if the library has a certain book in the library.
Where is Destiny?
This is who creates the physical book and gets it out on the market to sell.
Who is the publisher?
I am reading a fictional story about what life will be like in the future, may have technology or alternate worlds.
What is science fiction?
I am using an atlas.
I am looking for a map.
This is the page where I can find out when the book was published.
What is the copyright page?
This is the area where I go to use a book to find an answer. I do not read the whole book. I use the book for research.
Where is the reference section
This is the man that is not living anymore, but he created the system to organize non-fiction books into ten groups, listed by numbers.
Who is Melville Dewey?
I am a story with clues and suspects.
What is mystery?
I am reading about Lionel Messi, or Abraham Lincoln, or Golda Mair.
What is using a biography?