The Monarch Award:Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award

• 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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Monarch 2005 Winner

• 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

Important Dates

• Nominate for 2008 by October 15, 2006

• Register for 2006 by January 15, 2006

• Read August 05-February 06• Vote by February 28, 2006• 2006 Winner announced in

mid-March NIU and IRC• Author honored at ISLMA Fall

conference 2006

Monarch Management

• Obtain at least 12 of the 20 titles, multiple copies.• Code with stickers, orange tape, label protectors. • Prepare displays and bulletin boards to promote.• Provide bibliographies, bookmarks and checklists.• Encourage student, teacher, parent participation.• Collaborate with public library/school library. • Ensure voting eligibility of students.• Establish voting procedures.

More FAQ/Ideas

• Carson Dellosa has monarch stickers to mark books.

• Follett is making a poster.• Scholastic book fairs carry titles.• Rotate books to classrooms. • Read 5 or more to each class so all can vote.• Make Monarch books Reading Counts or AR.• PS or 4th…participate, but don’t send votes.

Monarch at Carl Sandburg

Actual Size

• By Steve Jenkins• Parts or the whole of

various creatures, large and small, are illustrated by gorgeous torn and cut paper collages in “actual” size.”

• Caldecott: What Can You Do with a Tail?

• Make collages.• Research animals in

book.

Aero and Officer Mike

• By Joan Plummer Russell

• The partnership of a police officer and his K-9 companion at work and at play are revealed in this photo essay made in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

• Pair with Officer Buckle and Gloria.

• Invite an officer/K-9.

Bear Snores On

• By Karma Wilson• In a hibernation story

gone awry, Bear’s friends hide from the weather in his cave and have a party as “bear snores on.”

• Learn about hibernation.

• Sequels: Bear Stays Up for Christmas and Bear Wants More

Biscuit’s New Trick

• By Alyssa Satin Capucilli• Repeated attempts to

learn to “fetch” are finally met with success when Biscuit distresses his mistress by retrieving the ball from the mud.

• Visit Biscuit’s website.• Read other Biscuit books

partners or whole group!

Book! Book! Book!

• By Debora Bruss• Bored when the kids

return to school, a group of farm animals meets with eventual success as they try to borrow a book at the library.

• Pair with other animal jokes/library stories.