Story Elements
The people or animals in a story
What are characters?
Story of a person's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
The date by which you should return a library book.
What is the due date?
The person who creates the artwork for a book.
What is the illustrator?
The "edge" of book that you see when a book is on a shelf.
What is the spine?
The events that happen in a story.
What is the plot?
Story of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
A person who helps you find information and connects you with books.
What is a librarian?
Book award selected by the votes of students in Oklahoma.
What is the Sequoyah Book Award?
A list of words and definitions - usually found at the back of a book.
What is a glossary?
The location and time that a story takes place.
What is the setting?
A book of maps or charts.
What is an atlas?
An "address" that helps you find a book in a library.
What is a call number?
Award given to an American illustrator for the "most distinguished picture book" each year.
What is the Caldecott Medal?
An alphabetical list of subjects in a book with the pages to find them on.
What is an index?
The challenge or problem in a story.
Literature that describes imaginary events.
A system using numbers to organize nonfiction books.
What is the Dewey Decimal System?
Award given to a US author for the "most distinguished book for children" each year.
What is the Newbery Medal?
List of chapters or sections in a book, in the order they appear.
What is a table of contents?
The central idea or belief in a story.
What is the theme?
Writing or books based on facts.
What is nonfiction?
The exclusive right to print or publish a book.
What is copyright?
Term for a category or style of writing.
What is genre?
Found in the front of a book, this lists the title, author, and publisher.