Types of Books in the Library
Type of book/section that includes fairytales, realistic, fantasy, historical, humorous/funny, and classics
What is Fiction?
The Front of the book is called this
What is the Cover?
Dictionaries help us find this
What are word definitions/word meanings?
This label on the spine of a book is named this...remind you of a phone?
What is a call number?
Type of books that include facts, statistics, biographical information, and how-tos
What is Non-Fiction?
Books and people have this in common to keep them upright
What is a spine?
An Encyclopedia can help us find information on many different subjects and is organized in this order
What is alphabetical order?
On a call number or spine label we often find information like this:
F
ALC
The F stands for this and the ALC are the first 3 letters of what?
What is Fiction and the first 3 letters of the author's last name?
Type of books that are for E-veryone
What are easy books?
On the cover of the book, we find these 3 important details about the book T____, A_____, and I______
What are Title, Author, and Illustrator?
An Atlas contains these awesome things that help travelers and explorers!
What are maps?
A Caldecott award depicts a man riding a horse, children cheering him, and animals running alongside the horse. Appropriately, the award is for most distinguished picture book and is for this person who did what for the book?
What is illustrator/illustrate?
Type of books that can have words or even be without words, but that tell a story. The story can be with animals, people, toys, etc. Gather around as we read this type of book
What is a picture book?
The Author does this
What is writes the book?
A Biography is a non-fiction (true) book that tells us the story of this
What is a person's life?
This award is given each year for a book that has made the "most distinguished contributions to American literature for children." Truth be told it's not a NEW award, but has been around for awhile
What is the Newberry Award?
These types of books, and this section in the library, includes important books such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesaurus', and almanacs
What are reference books/ what is the reference section?
The Illustrator's job is to do this
What is to draw the pictures?
A thesaurus might sound like a dinosaur, but it's a book that helps us find synonyms, or to speak plainly, these---oh, if you could tell me I'd be so grateful, appreciative, thankful!
What are similar words?
The Dewey Decimal System is the organization system used for libraries across America and in different parts of the world. This man named M_____ Dewey created it
Who is Melville Dewey?