"Mom! Mom! MOM! The poster came!"Yesterday, the quest began. When the girls crashed through the door after school, Rachel handed me the Caldecott-winner poster and wanted to know when we could go to the library. We spent a half-hour examining the poster while we waited for 2-year-old sister, Miranda, to wake up from her nap.
We picked out which books we had read before. Only three for me, two for Rachel and one for Audrey. What a surprise! I had imagined that these books would have been integrated more into our pop culture, like Curious George or Dr. Seuss. "Madeline" was there, as was "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Jumanji," so some have been made the jump to other media.
Next, we tried to pick out which books were fiction and which were non-fiction. A few non-fiction were quick to spot ("Abraham Lincoln," "Animals From the Bible"), but others kept us guessing.
We decided to mark the books on our poster with stickers, as we read each one and complete our journal entries. (I suspect the girls woke up their sister when I went to hunt the stickers, so they could hasten our trip to the library.)
The poster was a huge hit. It is such as strong visual -- it is the key to making this project so special for the girls. Thank you, Mrs. Lack, for giving us the idea and for finding this gorgeous poster for us.
Perma-Bound makes these posters each year. This one must be brand-new because when we took the poster with us to the public library, the librarian wanted one too! Pictured is the 2009 poster from the Perma-Bound website. Ours must be 2010.
-- Mom
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