Hodge Podge
The number or letters on the side of a book telling us where it lives is called this.
What is a call number?
This person is responsible for writing the text of a book
Who is the author?
In the Yoruba myth, this animal scratched and pecked the mountains, lakes, and rivers into being.
What is the giant white chicken?
History and Geography can be found in this section of the Dewey Decimal System.
What are the 900's?
Like the smelly or smoky air that you try not to breathe.
What is polluted?
The Table of Contents is found here in a book.
Where is the front of a book?
This person used photographs and colored pencils to create the art in How This Book Was Made
Who is the illustrator?
The Hawaiian gods got help from this small grey animal in creating the world.
What is a duck?
Thinking about how we think is called this.
What is Philosophy?
This word of the week can describe a puppy's ears
What is velvety?
The index is found here in a non-fiction book.
Where is the back of the book?
This person gives suggestions to the author about what needs to be changed in the book.
What is the editor?
The Slavic creation story imagines the universe like this living thing.
What is a tree?
The largest Dewey section in our library is this category.
What are the 500's?
When searching in the computer we use a short THIS, rather than a long sentence.
What is a keyword?
"A silver trapeze; a slim silver bar at the end of a rope I seize" is an example of this in poetry.
What is alliteration?
The words and illustrations are fed into this machine.
What is a printing press?
Rangi and Papa were pushed apart in this way in the Maori creation myth.
What is with his feet?
Poems can be found in this category.
What are the 800's?
What is Knowledge?
A word that is spelled the same forwards and backward.
What is a Palindrome?
The author writes many of these before the book is finally sent to the illustrator
What is a draft?
Greek mythology tells us that the earth was created from the bodies of these creatures.
What are giants?
Many religions can be found in this section.
What are the 200's?
This genre involves robots, space travel, time travel and the like.
What is science fiction?