Book Title: The Important Book
Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Leonard Weisgard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Copyright Date: 1949
Genre: Picture Book – Poetry
Brief Annotation:
Margaret Wise Brown’s patterned poetry along with Weisgard’s illustrations pair up to make a book about the small yet important things we encounter in life; from spoons to the wind to the reader him/herself.
Your Rating (1-5) and why:
5 – Along with a great topic for discussion about the important things in life, this book creates a great template for the students to create their own “Important” poem. They could create a poem about something concrete, a person, or a feeling... This book has lots of possibilities.
Readers who will like this book:
It would be a great read aloud for younger elementary children, but I could see its use in poetry making and illustrations all the way up to upper elementary. It would a great beginning-of-the-year book and/or a graduation read.
Teaching Strategy from or Yopp & Yopp :
Make an Upside-Down book p. 139
Have the children create two books. Using Brown’s poetry structure, create a book about important things - attitudes (helping, sharing, caring) and a book about unimportant things (greed, gossip, hatred).
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[Imagine 2 books with this as the cover page]
Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:
What things are important to you?
What feelings/attitudes are important to you?
Same questions, but about what is not important.
1. Interest Level (age): 6 and up
2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 3.1
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