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- Sponsored by ISLMA
- Schools/libraries register/participate
- Master List of 20 titles
- Award given annually to book voted favorite by K-3 children
- Specifics at website: www.islma.org/ monarch.htm
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- Schools serving K-3 students may participate.
- Public libraries serving K-3 children may participate and may conduct
voting for children who do not have access to the award program through
a school.
- Librarians, teachers, parents or
aides may administer the program.
- Registration brochures are mailed each Spring.
- Registration fees are used to fund printing, mailings, and expenses
associated with the winning author/illustrator’s appearance.
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- 95,000 K-3 children voted!
- Winner–David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon
- Second Place–Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
- Third Place–I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
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- 114,771 students voted
- 719 schools/libraries
- First: My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
- Second Place: Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
- Third Place: Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland
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- Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
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- By Carol Diggory Shields
- An illustrated collection of twenty-two poems about the ups and downs of
life in school.
- Write your own poems about school.
- Have a poetry read in.
- Read Lunch Money, There’s a Zoo in Room 22 and other school poetry.
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- By Margret Willey
- A small, but clever young girl outwits a rich giant and wins all his
gold.
- Conte = tall tale.
- Create a tall tale hero.
- Compare to other tall tales, giants or Tricky Fox.
- Clever Beatrice and the Little Pony and Clever Beatrice Christmas coming
soon.
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- By Heidi Roemer
- A collection of poems celebrating
favorite things from different seasons of the year, each shaped like the
subject at hand.
- Write a poem about your favorite season; make a class poetry book.
- Plan a class party.
- Read A Poke in the I and other concrete poetry.
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- By Jacqueline Woodson
- Staying with Grandma while Mama takes a job in Chicago during World War
II, Ada Ruth misses her mother, who loves her more than rain and snow.
- Research jobs for women during WWII.
- Read The Other Side, Our Aunt
Gracie, Visiting Day.
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- By Johanna Hurwitz
- Elisa is determined to find a way to make everything work out once she
enters the second grade and decides to prove she is a big girl to her
parents and brothers.
- Learn about babysitting.
- Have breakfast on the phone with grandma.
- Read others about Elisa.
- Compare Elisa and Judy Moody.
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- By Leah Wilcox
- A prince tries to get Rapunzel to throw down her hair so he can rescue
her, but she mis-hears him and throws down random objects from her room
instead.
- Play telephone to see how the words are changed.
- Compare to Zelinski’s Rapunzel or other fractured fairy tales.
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- By Patricia McKissack
- In segregated 1950s Nashville, Tricia braves a series of indignities and
obstacles to get to the one of the few integrated places: the public
library.
- Research segregation.
- Write about the first time you did something alone.
- Read The Other Side and Freedom Summer.
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- By Claudia Mills
- Gus enjoys basketball practice, but the noise and pace of playing actual
games bothers him until his Grandpa gives him good advice.
- Compare grandparents in Elisa, Coming on Home, Gus, and Goin’ Someplace
Special.
- Celebrate Grandparents day.
- Read Gus and Grandpa Go Fishing and others in series.
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- By Karen Beaumont
- A child who loves to paint the walls and everything else he sees cannot
resist adding one more dab of paint to some surprising places.
- Sing the song.
- Paint or color outlines of the students bodies.
- Read Tedd Arnold’s Parts books.
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- • Megan McDonald
- When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a
spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.
- Write a story in which you are famous. What would you do?
- Have a spelling bee.
- Read Judy Moody series and Judy’s brother Stink: The Incredible
Shrinking Kid
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- By Anne Whitford Paul
- Iguana, Conejo, Tortuga, and Culebra are excited about having a spring
party, but only Iguana is willing to do any of the work.
- Learn other Spanish words for animals, days of the week.
- Read versions of Little Red Hen and Armadilli Chili and compare.
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- Kate DiCamillo
- After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken
with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
- Eat buttered toast with a great deal of butter on it.
- Learn about firefighters and rescue squads.
- Read No More Jumping on the Bed and Mercy Watson
Takes a Ride.
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- By Marissa Moss
- In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth
and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game, becoming the first professional
female pitcher in baseball history.
- Research the history of women in baseball.
- Read about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
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- By Alison McGhee
- A first grader is frightened on her first day of school after hearing
that her teacher is a 300 year old alien with a purple tongue who steals
baby teeth from her students.
- Talk about losing a tooth or what children worried about the first day
of first grade.
- Read Countdown to Kindergarten, Dear Tooth Fairy.
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- By Molly Bang
- The sun explains how it’s light is transformed into various forms of
energy.
- Study forms of energy: wind, water, electricty.
- Discuss energy conservation.
- Read The Science Book of Light and Common Ground by Molly Bang.
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- By Caralyn Buehner
- Tired of being overlooked because he is so small, a big-hearted dog
named Dexter transforms himself into a superdog.
- Design and illustrate another adventure for Dex.
- Look for hidden pictures in the illustrations.
- Snowmen at Night and others by Buehners.
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- By Jim Aylesworth
- Tricky Fox uses his sack to trick everyone he meets into giving him ever
more valuable items.
- Compare fox and trickster tales such as Anansi.
- Trick each other by playing a
game of trading sacks.
- Read Full Belly Bowl and The Gingerbread Man by Aylesworth.
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- By Steve Jenkins
- Looks at the ways in which animals use their ears, eyes, mouths, noses,
feet, and tails.
- Caldecott Honor book
- Make a stuffed animal zoo and talk about animal parts.
- Compare to human parts in Parts, More Parts.
- Read Actual Size, Prehistoric Actual Size.
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- By Lauren Child
- A boy who loves books but has not always treated them well falls asleep
and finds himself in his book of fairy tales, where his interaction with
everyone from Goldilocks to Cinderella wreaks havoc.
- Discuss art techniques.
- Use with book care instruction.
- Read Beware of the Storybook Wolves and others by Child.
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- By Judy Sierra
- A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the
joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
- Make “wild” posters about favorite books.
- Make a “bookmobile” in a refrigerator box.
- Read to stuffed animals.
- Read Antarctic Antics, Monster Goose.
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- http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm
- Picture of book
- Author/illustrator links
- Questions/Activities for nominated books
- Related books
- Web resources for kids and teachers
- …..coming soon
- Ideas…pstorm@charleston.k12.il.us
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- Nominate for 2008 by September 15, 2006.
- Register by January 15, 2007.
- Read books August-February.
- Attend ISLMA Conference in November and see Keiko Kasza, 2006 winner.
- Submit votes by February 28, 2007.
- Watch for 2008 list, February 21, 2007.
- Hear the 2007 winner March 16, 2007.
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- Nominator must have read the book.
- Books may be nominated by librarians, teachers, students or parents.
- Nominees
- Must have literary merit.
- Be of interest and appeal to K-3 children.
- May be fiction or nonfiction in picture book, chapter book or easy
reader format.
- Be published in the last five years.
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- Nominees are reviewed based on the criteria.
- Balance of fiction/nonfiction and picture books/chapter books/easy
readers is considered as nominees are narrowed to 100.
- Volunteer readers review in depth 10 of the 100 and submit written
evaluations which are used to narrow to 50 nominees.
- Approximately 50 readers attempt to read all 50 nominees before the face
to face meeting and are assigned one book to review in depth and
present.
- Readers’ meeting selects the Master List of 20.
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- Obtain 12 to 20 titles, multiple
copies recommended.
- Code or mark the nominees–stickers, orange tape, label protectors.
- Prepare displays and bulletin boards.
- Provide bibliographies, bookmarks and checklists.
- Encourage student, teacher and parent participation.
- Collaborate with public library/school library.
- Ensure voting eligibility of students.
- Establish voting procedures.
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- Sharon Ball, NSLS, Wheeling
- Ann Brownson, EIU, Charleston
- Sally Schoenberg, Wilmette
- Pam Storm, Carl Sandburg, Charleston
- Jane Yoder, retired, Waukegan
- Volunteers
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