Thursday, April 12, 2018

Picture Books I Read This Week (April 9th-13th)

This week since it is National Library Week I decided to read books that were all about libraries!

Our Library by Eve Bunting
This book was really cute & it had nice pictures. But I will say that after I read it I feel like the overall story is a little bit heavy for children. The kids all want to do everything they can to save their library & help out which I think is great but it's the way they do it that threw me off. Also the Librarian is a little bit forward with the kids & I don't think that's realistic. 

Miss Goose the Librarian tells the kids the library is going to close forever because it needs a new roof & new paint. So the kids checkout some books to see if they can help. The next day they laid a new roof & painted the library a beautiful yellow with blue trim & a green door. But it also takes a lot of money to run the library according to Miss Goose. So the kids think they can help with that by having a bake sale. Finally the land the library is on is owned by Goat & he wants it back. So the kids go to Old beaver who owns Buttercup Meadow to see if they can move the library there. He only agrees after they convince him that all the kids need the library to grow up & be intelligent including his grandchild. In the end everyone gets what they want & the library stays open. 

L is for Library by Sonya Terry
This is an alphabet book & all the letters have something to do with the library!
You can tell the true age of this book from some of the references. 

A- Author
B- Biography
C- Caldecott
D- Dewey Decimal System
E- Encylopedia
F- Fiction
G- Guide Words
H- Historical Fiction
I- Illustrator
J- Jacket
K- Keyword Search
L- Library
M- Magazines
N- Nonfiction Books
O- Overdue
P- Parts of a Book
Q- Quiet
R- Reference
S- Shelf Marker
T- Thesaurus
U- URL
V- Volunteer
W- World Wide Web
X- Xerox Machine
Y- Your Interests
Z- Catching ZZZ's

The Library Doors by Toni Buzzeo
This book would be perfect for storytime preschool, & kinder. It is read to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus". Some example of the words include The Library doors swing open & shut open & shut open & shut, The Librarian says hear a tale hear a tale hear a tale... 

We're Going on a Book Hunt by Pat Miller
There a some noises & actions that could go with this book for storytime etc. 

It's library day for a group of bears & they go through all the motions of going to the library, checking out a book, & then reading it & bringing it back. Everyone in the book is reading from the birds to the bookworms. There is also a repeated phrase: We're going on a book hunt, We're going to find a good one, We know how, Not too easy, Not too hard, But just right. 

B is for Bookworm by Anita Prieto
This is another alphabet library book. But unlike the other one this one has a lot of really good info in it in the side panel & includes interesting facts. I didn't even know all of this stuff!

A- Author
B- Bookworm
C- Library Card
D- Dewey
E- Early Books
H- Historic
I- Illustrations
J- Juvenile Books
K- Knowing
L- Library of Congress
M- Media Center
N- Call #
O- Online
P- Presidential Libraries
Q- Quest
R- Reference
S- Story Telling
T- Traveling Libraries
U- Useful Parts of a Book
V- Vocabulary
W- Winner
X- Xylograph
Y- Yellow
Z- Zestful

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