Vocabulary
What is an author?
A book that is made up by the author's imagination. It is not real.
What is fiction?
This is the name of the clever system libraries use to organize non-fiction books.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
Doing this with sticky fingers, eating messy snacks, or drinking a juice box while reading can accidentally ruin a library book.
What is eating or drinking?
This hilarious, energetic pet bird created by author Mo Willems constantly begs to drive a city bus and desperately tries to avoid taking a bath.
Who is the Pigeon?
The person who draws, paints, or creates the pictures for a book?
What is an Illustrator?
A book filled with real facts, real people, and real events or stories.
What is nonfiction?
This is the name of the clever American librarian who invented the system that uses numbers to organize all the non-fiction books on library shelves.
Who is Melvin Dewey?
Instead of folding down the corner of a page to save your spot, you should use this flat, creative tool.
What is a bookmark?
This kind and clever spider saves her pig friend Wilbur by spinning words like "Some Pig" directly into her web.
Who is Charlotte?
A person or a company that turns a writer's words into a real book, magazine, or website and owns the rights to sell the book so people can read it.
What is a publisher?
Fiction books usually have a call number that starts with these three letters.
What is FIC?
This number of groups or categories that Melvil Dewey used to split up and organize all the non-fiction topics in a library.
What is 10?
If you are not quite done reading your book but it is time to check it back in, you can ask the librarian to do this action to get more time with it.
What is renew the book?
This dynamic brother-and-sister duo from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, travels through time and history using a magical, book-filled treehouse.
Who are Jack and Annie?
The exact year that specific book was finished and printed for the very first time.
What is the copyright date?
A mini-dictionary is found at the back of a non-fiction book to explain hard words.
What is a glossary?
True or False.
Non-fiction books never use real photographs, only cartoon drawings.
What is False?
(Non-fiction books often use real photographs, maps, and diagrams to show you the real world)
When a book you really want is checked out by someone else, you do what, which puts your name on this
What is request a hold?
This is the evil robot villain who is always trying to take over the world and ruin all the fun in Animal Town.
Who is King Viking?
The book's home address inside the library.
Hint: Contains letters or numbers as well as the first three letters of the author's last name.
What is the call number?
This is a neat list found at the very beginning of a book that acts like a map, showing you all the chapter names and the page numbers where they start.
What is a table of contents?
This alphabetical list at the very back of a non-fiction book acts like a search engine, showing you the exact page numbers to look at to find a specific topic quickly.
What is the index?
This is the word used to describe a book that has not been returned to the library on time.
What is overdue?
This is the brave, small deer mouse with large ears who is the main hero of the entire book series. A book about BMSA with fake characters and story.
Who is Poppy?