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Book Summary
Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, shares with the readers what importance she thinks of some of the natural and ordinary things around us: spoon, daisy, rain, grass, snow, apple, wind, sky, a shoe, and you! Even though the important parts that the author picks out on each of the items seems so unimportant, but they are exactly what pops in our head when we think about these things. This book shows readers perspective from the person who is sharing and each reader when asked to share their important thoughts on these items may come up with different things.
Reference
Brown, M. W. (1977). The important book. HarperCollins Publishers.
Librarian's Corner
The Important Book is a book that points out the importance of ordinary things that surround us in our daily life. There are many things around us or in our daily life and we value as needed on a daily basis. We are able to tell others the reasons of these things being necessities to us. But what about the things that we rarely think about? We may be taking these things for granted and hardly notice or realize our ignorance. This book provides opportunities for readers to think about things that we hardly think about but use all the time. The illustrations of these ordinary things enable readers to examine more closely the reason of their existence.
Review
From Goodreads.com
The important thing about The Important Book -- is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to). For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things -- like rain and wind, apples and daisies -- is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. 'A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.' -- K.
Goodreadscom.. (n.d.) [Review of the book The important book by Margaret Wise Brown]. Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book.
Value to the Library
Elementary School Library
The school librarian can read aloud The Important Book to students from PK to 2nd grade to strengthen the concept of attributes in math and science. Students from 3rd to 5th grade can benefit from this read-aloud in their language arts concept on perspective. The upper elementary students will learn that their classmates and them may be similar in age, but they might be very different in their thinking and reasoning toward the exact same things.
Librarian's Corner
The Important Book is a book that points out the importance of ordinary things that surround us in our daily life. There are many things around us or in our daily life and we value as needed on a daily basis. We are able to tell others the reasons of these things being necessities to us. But what about the things that we rarely think about? We may be taking these things for granted and hardly notice or realize our ignorance. This book provides opportunities for readers to think about things that we hardly think about but use all the time. The illustrations of these ordinary things enable readers to examine more closely the reason of their existence.
Review
From Goodreads.com
The important thing about The Important Book -- is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to). For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things -- like rain and wind, apples and daisies -- is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. 'A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.' -- K.
Goodreadscom.. (n.d.) [Review of the book The important book by Margaret Wise Brown]. Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book.
Value to the Library
Elementary School Library
The school librarian can read aloud The Important Book to students from PK to 2nd grade to strengthen the concept of attributes in math and science. Students from 3rd to 5th grade can benefit from this read-aloud in their language arts concept on perspective. The upper elementary students will learn that their classmates and them may be similar in age, but they might be very different in their thinking and reasoning toward the exact same things.
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