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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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- 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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- • Designed to encourage children
to read critically and become familiar with books, authors and
illustrators.
- • Named in honor of the Monarch
Butterfly, Illinois’ state insect which symbolizes growth, change and
freedom, qualities that also characterize the emergent reader.
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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 reminders are mailed each Spring.
- Registration form for 2008 is on the website now!
- Registration fees are used to fund printing, mailings, and expenses
associated with the winning author/illustrator’s appearance.
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- Information sheet
- Bibliography with summaries and ISBNs
- Nomination form and criteria for nominees
- Ballot template for paper voting
- Bookmark template
- Tally sheet to report ALL votes
- Many resources available on the website
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- • March 16, 2007–Winner announced
IRC and NIU
- March, 2007–Website updated for 2008 resources
- April, 2007–2008 Registration reminder mailed
- August 15, 2007–2008 Packets mailed
- 2007–2008 school year–Read the 2008 Nominees
- September 15, 2007–2009 Nominations close
- January 15, 2008–Official end of 2008 registration
- February 14, 2008–2009 Master List announced
- February, 2008–Vote by the 28th (post or online?)
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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, illus. by Lynn
Munsinger
- Third Place–I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
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- • 115,000 students voted
- 719 schools/libraries
- First: My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
- Second Place: Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, illus. by Harry Bliss
- Third Place: Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland
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- • 120,712 students voted
- 753 schools/libraries
- Winner: Superdog: The Heart of a Hero by Caralyn Buehner, illus. by Mark
Buehner
- Second Place: I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont
- Third Place: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book? by Lauren Child
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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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- When Buzz captures a fly to enter in The Amazing Pet Show, his parents
and the judges tell him that a fly cannot be a pet, but Fly Guy proves
them wrong.
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor.
- Fly is from Green Wilma.
- Learn how to draw like Arnold, bug eyes and squiggles, at his website.
- Research flies, unusual pets.
- Sequels: Shoo Fly Guy, Super Fly Guy or read Old Black Fly (Aylesworth)
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- When Sally Jean outgrows her beloved bicycle, Flash, she experiments
with various ideas for acquiring a new, bigger one.
- Graph bicycle colors.
- Make bike safety posters.
- Make a “Things with wheels” picture in Kidspiration.
- Write a story about getting your bike.
- Research bicycles.
- Read Red Racer (Wood).
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- • When the honey badger does not
share the honey with the honey guide who found it, the bird teaches him
a lesson.
- • Visit Jan Brett’s website for
many resources.
- www.janbrett.com
- • Invite a beekeeper.
- • Taste honey.
- • Read The Bee Tree (Polacco)
& the fable of the lion and the mouse.
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- When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to
become very, very bad.
- Write and illustrate a bad dog ABC book.
- Invite a vet to share.
- Find correlations between the bad and good kitty alphabets.
- Have a pet food drive. Donate to the shelter.
- Read The Cat in the Hat (Seuss).
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- The students in Mr. Magro's class submit stories for the SOS file about
their biggest emergencies, and read them aloud for extra credit.
- Write your SOS story.
- Which story was the best?
- Discuss 911 and when it is appropriate to use.
- Research the use of SOS.
- Discuss anthologies.
- Coming soon: Dog Diaries (Byars, Duffey & Myers)
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- After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for
the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive larger
boxes.
- Send a box to children in other countries, soldiers.
- Collect funds for UNICEF.
- Make a wants and needs picture in Kidspiration.
- Force tulip bulbs.
- Read A New Coat for Anna (Ziefert).
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- Traction Man, a boy's courageous action figure, has a variety of
adventures with Scrubbing Brush and other objects in the house.
- Bring your favorite action figure and make an action figure display.
- Write and illustrate another adventure for Traction Man.
- Learn about traction (friction).
- Read Superhero ABC (McLeod) & Superdog (Buehner)
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- Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise the second grade
students, especially reluctant learner A. J.
- Think of fun ways to teach math or reading. Share with a younger grade.
- Is Miss Daisy a good teacher?
- Term: “Crazy like a fox.”
- Visit Dan Gutman’s website for Weird School activities.
- Read the Wayside School stories (Sachar) or others in the Weird School
series.
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- The true story of the unusual relationship between Owen, a baby hippo
orphaned by the tsunami, and Mzee, a 130-year-old giant tortoise.
- Research tsunamis, hippos and giant tortoises.
- Visit their web log. http://www.lafargeecosystems.com/main/blog.php
- Sequel: Owen and Mzee: The Language of Friendship.
- Read Sunny Boy (Fleming) or Koko’s Kitten (Paterson).
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- A fireboat, launched in 1931, is retired, saved from being scrapped
and called into service again on
September 11, 2001.
- Visit the Harvey’s site. http://www.fireboat.org/
- Discuss firefighters.
- Learn about tugs & other working boats.
- How does the art work match the story?
- Read Next Stop Grand Central (Kalman).
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- A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from
apple cores to ziti and zucchini.
- Point out personification, onomatopoeia.
- Limit trash by reducing, reusing, and recycling.
- Discuss community helpers.
- Read I’m Dirty (McMullan) and Trashy Town (Zimmerman).
- Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout poem (Silverstein)
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- A clever spider is lonely and longs to become a family pet.
- Learn about pet spiders, such as tarantulas.
- Compare to Hi Fly Guy.
- Make webs with glue and glitter or yarn.
- List other animals that people fear.
- Research spiders.
- Read Diary of a Spider (Cronin).
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- A brightly illustrated collection of short poems about how a child sees
the world and its inhabitants.
- Relate poems to other Monarch books, tulips, turtles, trees.
- Count the stars, apples, houses on each pages.
- Read nature poems: Silver seeds (Paolilli), A Lucky Thing (Schertle)
- Write your own poem. http://ake.epsb.ca/dearworld/
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- A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one
special night.
- Use a thesaurus to find fancy words.
- Learn about “fancy” manners and use them at lunch.
- Write about a time when you had to be fancy.
- Read Just Plain Fancy (Polacco) and Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy
(O’Connor)
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- After Sang-hee's father injures his ankle, Sang-hee attempts to take
over the task of lighting the evening fire, which signals to the Korean
palace that all is well.
- Discuss methods of communication hundreds of years ago vs. today.
- Locate Korea on a map.
- Read Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (Roop).
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- This book focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor, with an
emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm.
- List all Ben’s inventions. Which was the best?
- Research lightning.
- Explore an almanac.
- Read Now and Ben (Baretta) & others by the author (Schanzer).
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- Cocoa the horse herds the cows with Cowgirl Kate, helps her practice her
roping skills, and wishes he could wear boots instead of horseshoes.
- Geisel Honor Book.
- Learn about cowboys, cattle drives, ranching.
- Have a reading rodeo with reading partners.
- Sing cowboy songs.
- Read first book Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa and Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa:
School Days(coming soon).
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- Text and photographs describe how dogs that guard animals are trained
and raised.
- Learn about sheep and other
working dogs.
- Compare to sheep and dogs to Owen and Mzee.
- Visit the author’s ranch. http://www.paradisesheep.com/
- Read A Young Shepherd and Puppies,
Puppies Everywhere! (Urbigkit)
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- In rhyming Seuss-like text, a boy describes all the features of his
fantastic car.
- Invent your own car and draw blueprints for it.
- Research the history of the automobile.
- Learn about mileage and costs of cars today.
- Read Tooth-Gnasher Super Flash (Pinkwater).
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- In a letter to his children, a father recounts memories of the role
Steve, the tree in their front yard, has played in their lives.
- Draw a model treehouse.
- List uses for a tree.
- Plant trees at school or home.
- Write a letter about playing outside.
- Read The Giving Tree (Silverstein)
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- Label the books: orange, stickers, label protectors
- Display ideas: bulletin board, wall, special shelf
- Reading ideas
- Reserve/rotation of books, to every classroom
- Offer stickers/certificate for classroom reading ALL 20
- Make bookmarks/checklist for kids
- Read in classroom or library
- Fun–hat, shirt, butterfly balloons and puppets
- Ensure ALL students get to vote (read 5 books)
- Establish voting procedures
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- Any questions?
- Don’t forget to register, read, and vote!
- Visit the website soon.
- http://www.islma.org/monarch.htm
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Notes