Farmby Elisha Cooper
Orchard Books (Scholastic Inc.)
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A program of the Children's Services department of the Allen County (Indiana) Public Library. Please join our discussion of this year's best informational books for children.
Welcome to the ACPL Mock Sibert blog!
We're excited about all the new informational books for kids that will be published in 2011 and we look foward to highlighting some of the best here. We hope you'll join the discussion by leaving comments on the titles we post. If you'd like to suggest a title for our list, simply leave a comment or send us an email.
In January of 2012, we'll get together in person to talk about our favorites and vote for our Mock Sibert Award winners. Watch for details to be published later this year.
2 comments:
This isn't my pick for the Mock Sibert, but one thing that I did really appreciate about Farm was that the glossary was in the front of the book.
I don't know that I've ever seen a glossary appear before the main content in an informational book, but it makes perfect sense. Readers might like to know the meanings of new words before they are encountered in the text. Brilliant!
I really fell in love with this book. The glossary in front was a big plus, introducing words that children may not be familiar with is a great idea. The illustration are wonderful and I like the way he introduced each part of the farm with the matching illustrations, a great way to help a child follow the text and also show parts of the farm. I got a really good sense of day to day and season to season life on the farm. Cooper gives a basic introduction to farm life, keeps it simple and provides a point of reference which will help children move towards more complex titles about farms.
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