Library, The |
Publication Information
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Author: Stewart, Sarah |
Illustrator: Small, David |
Title: Library, The |
Date: 1995 |
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: none |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
easy reading, true story, biography and autobiography, poetry
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
A delightfully illustrated story in verse about a shy, avid reader who gave her books to form a town library. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Use this charming book with the small text set on librarians and libraries. Read it aloud to anyone who will listen. The illustrations reveal more each time they are viewed. Readers will want to reflect on the visual motifs, visual jokes and allusions, the relationship of the main color illustration with the black and white sketch opposite the verse etc. Although the character of Mary Elizabeth Brown is revealed indirectly, readers should enjoy discussing and writing a character sketch of her. What might the townspeople think of her? How do shy, quirky peole function in today's world? Have you ever met anyone like her? It might be fun to use the book as a model and write a description of that person in verse. Ask students to plan a "readers' olympiad. (See the publisher's web site www.fsgkidsbooks.com/teachersguides/stewart_small.htm.)
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Teaching Strategies: |
Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
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Copy Change
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf
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Helping Students in the Writing Process
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf
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Reader's Theater
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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Brainstorming Activities (Guidelines)
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/brainstorming.pdf
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