I'm Patrick Adams. And I'm Caroline Legere. This
is Librarians of Littles, a podcast where we
share books, makerspace ideas, and tips and tricks
for working with our youngest learners in the
library setting. This week we have two excellent
picture books that we were able to get our hands
on during our recent visit to the Texas Library
Association. And so we'll be talking about those,
but before we do that, We have to follow up because
Caroline, in one of our previous episodes, you
just told us about getting an author to come
visit your library. So tell us how that went,
how the experience was, what the kids thought
of it, all your thoughts on the whole experience
overall. Well, I had a wonderful week this last
week. Tammy sour came to our schools both them
and presented for a little pre K kids I did tell
her ahead of time obviously that we had all pre
K and she definitely made a presentation for
us that was very developmentally appropriate
it helped a lot that Tammy sour has previously
taught pre K. She came in and she had started
with. puppet from wordy birdy and she read that
book to our kids and then she the presentation
in total was about 30 minutes long and. She read
wordy birdy she gave us a little background about
herself and kind of how she gets her ideas for
writing children's books and how she grew up
on a farm and it was. It was background information
and it was good information, but she did a really
good job with making it really engaging for our
kids. She had a lot of barnyard dances and such
kind of built in there. So the kids got to move
a little bit, even though they were sitting for
a solid 30 minutes, they weren't like sitting
for a solid 30 minutes. It was, they got to move
like barnyard animals and dance around a little
bit in their spots. They didn't get up. which
was probably for the best because there were
so many of them in one space. And then she ended
by reading. You would think I would have it very
memorized in a big way by now, right? What did
she read at the very end? Oh, no, the underpants.
That's right. She read the underpants. But yeah,
the kids had a great time. There were I had I
don't know how many teachers came up to me afterward
and told me they were a little bit nervous beforehand.
They didn't think it was developmentally appropriate
for an author to come and visit our school because
it is all three, fours and fives. A lot of the
kids. They were concerned that maybe the children
wouldn't understand What an author is or like
that she was the one that wrote the books or
anything like that But I really think that most
of the kids got it I mean a few it went over
a few kids heads but beforehand I talked to the
kids about what an author is and what an author
does and why they're important for the book and
that they're the ones who write the words in
the book and when we were beginning our presentation
every single one i kind of reviewed that vocabulary
with them and ask them what we were going to
do and they were able to tell me you know. This
is an author and she wrote the words in the book
beforehand like days before when i was talking
it up they were a couple of two kids from different
schools both said authors aren't real and they
thought i was kidding because. surely that's
not real the book just magically appears and
then afterward I asked them individually do you
believe in authors now and they're like yeah
I do so that was very exciting that we got to
prove that authors are real but yeah it went
really well and I'm so excited that we did it
I was fortunate enough to be able to come in
and sneak in and visit and watch the presentation
and I have to say I just The amount of energy
that Tammy Sauer brings to the presentation,
I am in awe how she can keep her energy level
so high for the entire time. But she does a great
job of just being so high energy and just so
on in front of the kids and being able to just
keep their attention. It was very cool. And I'm
glad that your campus and your students were
able to experience that because From what I saw,
all of the kids were very engaged and very excited
the entire time, and I loved that after the presentation,
you gave your students a chance to make their
own books, and that was the most popular of the
choices of things they could do is get over there
because they all wanted to become authors right
then and there. And that was just a really cute
thing to see all of those kids wanting to make
their own books now that they've seen someone
who does that for a job. That was a really cool
experience. Yeah, that definitely was the most
popular one. There were a couple of classes where
I had to add an extra table with extra paper
and crayons and all the things so that we could
have extra authors or extra kids becoming authors.
And we just kept using that vocabulary when they
were becoming authors. Yeah, we folded pieces
of paper in half. Initially, I tried to give
them like two or three pieces of paper so they
could have multiple pages. Turned out that one
piece of paper folded in half was perfect for
pre -k. That's what I should have done is simpler
is better in pre -k but they drew their own pictures
and Then I had them when they were ready They
came and got me and told me what words to write
in their book and there were some like actual
stories in there with like actual like I mean,
not complex plot, but there was like, oh, there's
an alligator coming in one of the books. And
some of the books were just like one or two words.
And that's OK. There were a few kids that were
just like labeling pictures. That's when we still
called them authors and everything, even though
it wasn't a complex story by any means. But there
were a few kids that had like actual plot lines
and such in their little books. So. Yeah, it
was a lot of fun and Tammy Sauer actually stayed
in for a lot of those and she was very gracious
and let some of the kids read their books to
her and I think she even in our very first class
of the day she even like took a picture with
one of the kids and like the teacher came over
and I'm pretty sure Tammy Sauer like wrote in
the book with the child and everything because
that particular child writes a whole lot of books.
I know it was great. I will say when Looking
to book Tammy sour because I I think that the
authors and illustrators that do a lot of author
visits will have something on their websites
where you can fill out a form and it kind of
shows you what kind of presentations they have
and hers in particular does have like she has
a kindergarten first presentation and then like
a second and third presentation and then a fourth
and fifth And obviously what we went with the
kinder and first but it was good to know that
like booking her like you could tell this is
probably gonna be more developmentally appropriate
i think there may be some authors where. That
might specialize in you know working with older
kids a little bit better and relating to them
but with Tammy you could tell that she would
work really well pre -k because she broke down
the presentations in that way and kind of. tailored
it to the age group she was working with. It's
such a cool experience and I'm so happy that
you were able to do that for your campuses. Me
too. Alright, so today our books that we're going
to discuss are books that we were able to purchase
or actually we didn't even have to purchase them.
We were able to get them by attending the Texas
Library Association conference. We were able
to meet these authors and get autographed copies
of these books, which was super cool. And so
we have two really great books that are coming
out this year. They're new books, the first of
which is a book titled Anything. It is published
by Chronicle Books. It comes out the Book release
date is actually April 25th of this year 2025.
So it comes out in the next week or so from our
recording. The author is Rebecca Steed and the
illustrator is Gracie Zong. Since this book actually
technically hasn't been released yet, there are
no awards for it. But Rebecca Steed has won a
Newberry Award for her book, When You Reach Me.
and Gracie Zung has received the Ezra Jack Keats
Illustrator Award for her debut book, La La's
Words, and together both of them have appeared
on multiple lists. So they're both amazing at
what they do. As far as Rebecca Steed, Rebecca
Steed grew up in New York City. In elementary
school she found a love of reading. Her love
of reading made her want to be a writer, but
She didn't think she would be able to so she
became a lawyer with dreams of being a writer
at some point. She got married and had two kids
and after visiting a bookstore and being inspired
once again she began writing and she's been doing
it now for 20 years. She states that often she's
asked how she begins and her response is to quote,
do not wait for perfect words. Welcome the words
that show up. They are inviting you into another
world. The most important thing to know about
writing is that there are no rules. Which sounds
like excellent advice. Some of her other books,
isn't that amazing? I loved it. And then some
of her other books, all of her other books are
actually chapter books, they're older books.
So this is her first picture book, but some of
her other books include When You Reach Me, Goodbye
Stranger, The Lost Library, Bob, The List of
Things That Will Not Change, First Light, and
she has another book coming out this fall, The
Experiment. And for our illustrator history,
Gracie Zong has a BFA in illustration from the
Rhode Island School of Design. Gracie was born
and raised in Vancouver, Canada. She has participated
in artist residencies all over the world, including
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in France. She is
now based out of New York and has a studio in
Brooklyn. Some of her other books include Nigel
and the Moon by Antoine Edie. Noodles on a Bicycle
by Keo McClear Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias
The Big Bath House by Keo McClear Dear Mr. G
by Christine Evans The Science of Boys by Emily
Satoko Sio The Upside Down Hat by Stephen Barr
and One More Jar of Jam by Michelle Sumovich
And then she's also written and illustrated Lala's
words and when Ruben plays. So for our book,
Anything, the summary is that when a little girl
and her father are moving into a new apartment,
apartment 3B, the girl's father provides a birthday
cake for that new apartment and tells the girl
that she can make a wish, a wish for anything.
When she questions this more her dad explains
that she can make three wishes for anything and
so with some thought the girl begins to make
her wishes. Her first wish is for a rainbow in
her room, which her father quickly gets to work
on painting a large rainbow across one of her
bedroom walls. Throughout the day the girl is
considering her other possible wishes She decides
upon wishing for the biggest slice of pizza and
that it is not Thursday, so it's not a bath day.
As the girl gets ready for bed, she's also wishing
that she could be back home in her old home in
her old apartment, not in apartment 3B. When
she's startled awake by a passing fire truck,
she wishes that she could be home and her father
gives her a piggyback ride around the apartment
over and over again until she falls asleep. The
next morning she is ready for anything for breakfast
and is finally beginning to settle into her new
home and apartment 3B. I really enjoyed this
story. I think it's a really sweet story. This
is something that a lot of people deal with that
a lot of kids have to deal with. It's a hard
thing to have. big changes like moving homes,
moving apartments. And this is a sweet way of
looking at it as the parent, the dad is trying
to help make the transition something that's
easier and special. And it's just a sweet story
of showing that father's love and care for his
daughter and trying to help her make it through
this challenging time. So it's just, it's really
Sweet and heartwarming story the pictures. I
love there's this very limited use of color throughout
it There's a lot of white with black lines to
make the pictures and the colors are coming only
when the wishes are happening and it just I love
the sparse use of colors because when those colors
really do pop up on the page They just jump out
at you so much to make it looks so warm and inviting
and exciting. I really enjoyed the story a lot.
I think this is a solid four out of five bookmarks.
I think it's a really sweet story that a lot
of students will like. And just that idea of
being able to wish for anything. This girl kept
it very grounded, which is Something that I don't
know I feel like if I tried to give my kid like
at that age Just be like yeah, you can have three
wishes anything like that would have gotten out
of hand really quick so the fact that this child
was able to keep it kind of grounded and realistic,
but at the same time kind of Have her imagination
run wild at a little bit at the same time. It
was just a sweet cute story That I really enjoyed
and I think a lot of kids would really like it,
too Think so too. It was really like you said
it's very heartwarming. I really liked it a lot
I think it's gonna be especially good for any
kid who's going through a particularly hard time.
This might be a really good one For like a counselor
to have on hand or something like that where
if there's a child that's kind of struggling
they can kind of Read it and relate to it and
kind of know that they're gonna come back come
through it okay, you know, it would be a good
one for bibliotherapy. It's it would also make
a great read aloud for the library as well. I
think if it's a read aloud for the library, I
agree, I would give it a four out of five. If
it's like a one on one with a child who's going
through something like this or just going through
any kind of a hard time, because I know in the
book, it's The difficulty is you know, but they're
having to move and the little girl wants to go
back to her old home and obviously she can't
But I think that it could be you that you could
really extend it to like anything where anything
That's kind of difficult just knowing that you're
gonna get through it You still have your people
and your people still love you and you're gonna
be okay And I was even as I was reading it, I
was also wondering this might be something that
you could even use it as a book about kind of
loss also, because there's it seems like since
it is just the daughter and the father, there
might be a reason why they're in a new apartment.
There might be it might be because of divorce.
It might be because mom passed away. There could
be lots of other reasons going on in that that
aren't explicitly explained in the story so you
could use this for like you said for a lot of
a lot of different problems and challenges that
students might be dealing with to kind of help
them through that I think that using this especially
if like you work with your counselor and using
it that way would be an excellent way to use
this book to help students out for sure so four
out of five rating excellent as far as makerspace
I was trying to come up with something to do
with this book and I Had two ideas. The first
one was kind of a cop -out a little bit. I'm
gonna be up front I was like we could just do
you could just have some materials out and just
be like you get to build anything and then just
let the kids kind of go crazy with it, but Realistically,
I like the idea at the beginning. The first thing
that comes to her mind is she wants a rainbow
in her bedroom she wants to if she's gonna be
in a new place where She's not going to be able
to go back to what she's used to. Kind of defining
her space for herself by adding that rainbow
to her bedroom was the very first thought she
had to make it something of her own. And so I
like that idea. So I would honestly give the
kids the chance to. decorate their own room.
Give them a sheet of paper, give them some colored
pencils, some crayons, some markers, and let
them go to town. If you could put anything on
your bedroom walls to make your room yours, what
would you do? And just let them come up with
a design or a decoration that they would like
to do in their own bedroom. Give them that opportunity
to be creative and tell them you could do anything
on your wall. So what would you do? And give
them that chance to Draw out what their bedroom
would look like If they got to decorate and design
all of all of the room Yeah, because that's still
it's still very much anything but it's still
very related to the book Yeah, and it really
gives the kids an opportunity to be exceptionally
creative I love it when we can give the kids
a little bit more creative control within reason
like it's still very clear -cut instructions,
but really they get to do anything within those
instructions. So that's great. And you know,
like as long as you explain we're doing it on
this paper, don't go home and do it on your wall.
You can do it on the paper now, then it's all
good. So maybe make sure you define that really,
really well, just in case. That's true. I don't
know, that might give some kids some ideas too
though. That's a hard line. Yeah. Cause they
might not even think about it. They might, Oh,
I don't know. Either way is rough. Hmm. Well,
there you go. So yeah, it could also just be
draw anything. It could be draw anything. I just
like the idea of like, she really wanted that,
that rainbow on her wall. And I think a lot of
kids. I think most kids, if you say, Hey, we
can't go and draw on our walls. We can't put
anything we want on our better malls. But if
we could, what would you do? And then give them
the paper and show you what they did. Most of
them would take that as the, okay, you're right.
I can't do this, but here's a way I can come
up with an idea. So that'd be all right. All
right. This week for our library of Littles management
tip. we're gonna do something a little bit different.
So as an elementary librarian, I have on my campus
currently, we have pre -K through fifth grade.
And so with the older kids, we do this with third,
fourth and fifth grade. My school district has
a book battle every year. And so the way the
book battle works is that the year prior in the
spring, the librarians work together, we come
up with a list of 10 chapter books, 10 fiction
books that the students will then read throughout
the school year. Those 10 books, we base what
we choose based on a couple different things.
If they're on state lists, that helps. If they've
won different kinds of awards, we try to make
them books that every campus already has one
or two copies of because they're relatively new.
We do a couple things like that just to make
sure that we have a well -rounded list. We want
to make sure that the books range in difficulty
so that third through fifth grade can find them
to be good reads overall. And once we've made
that list, we introduce the 10 books at the beginning
of the school year. Students read them throughout.
We make them available throughout the school
year. Our district is fortunate enough that they
can afford to buy 10 copies of each of the 10
books, so 100 books for each of the elementary
campuses so that everyone has at least 10 copies
of every book available to the students. The
students have access to those books. There's
different ways, different campuses. Check out
those books. Personally, I don't put them in
our catalog. I have them on a separate counter
and my students. There's a binder that they can
check out one book at a time. Sign out the book
with their name and what day they took it and
they write it back when they when they return
it They put the date they returned it kind of
thing and then in the spring the students will
make teams of four students and Then those teams
go up against other teams on the campus for a
campus book battle The way the campus book battle
works are is that the librarians throughout the
fall? read through all the books and make multiple
multiple questions for each of the 10 books and
then we make a they make a slide deck with different
rounds of 20 questions and those questions are
all set up with the framework of in what book
and then it gives you something that happens
in one of the books and the students in their
teams are given 10 sheets of paper on each of
those sheets of paper is a title for one of the
10 books. And they're given another 10 sheets
of paper, and on each of those papers are the
10 authors of the 10 books. And so when a question
is posed, the students have 30 seconds to come
up with the name of the book and the name of
the author. If they get the name of the book
correct, they earn five points. If they get the
name of the author correct, they earn one point.
And so they could earn between 0 and 6 points
for each question that's provided. In a round,
there are 20 questions. And we have it pretty
organized where we have a sheet for each team
with what the question is, what the correct answer
is, what they chose for an answer, how many points
they got, and then who the correct author is
and what they chose for the correct author and
how many points they got for that. And so we
can go through and As we're asking each question,
we can have people recording those answers. And
once we find a campus winner, those campus winners
go to a district battle where they go up against
all the other elementary campus winners to find
a district book battle winner for the year. Now,
I explain all of that in a lot of detail, but
my idea. I'm going to try this. I think I'm going
to try this this year because we've been reading
a lot of books with my kinder and first grade
students. So I think I'm going to try this this
year. I want to do a mini book battle just to
see how well the kids paid attention throughout
the year and what they remember about the books.
So this year I'm going to go back through the
books that I've read with my classes, and I'm
going to make 20 questions about 10 books. So
basically two questions per book. I'm going to,
instead of having the kids worry about the author
and the title and matching those things, they're
just going to get a picture of each of the 10
books, the covers of those books. So they have
a cover of the book and then split the class
into Groups of four or five depending on how
many kids there are that really if I split them
in groups of four That's probably five groups,
which is more than enough groups and then those
groups will work together to try and answer the
question and when we ask a question they'll hold
up whatever book cover they think matches with
the answer and I'm not gonna do it to necessarily
keep score, but just kind of give them an opportunity
to talk with each other about the books and see
what they remember from the books that we've
read this year. I think it'll just be a fun experience
for them. And it kind of starts to have them
start thinking about whether when they get bigger,
they might be interested in participating in
the bigger book battle where they have to read
bigger books and pay a lot of attention to the
details and that kind of thing. So I think we're
going to try that this year. I've got of May
that I can prep for this and I think this is
gonna be something that I'm gonna try out this
year just to see how it turns out it might be
a Enormous failure, but I think that it's gonna
be fun. I think that a lot of the kids will actually
I because I really do think that most of these
kids Enjoy the stories and I know I've had so
many kids come up this year and be like remember
when we've read or Look what I found on the shelf.
We read this earlier this year, you know, so
I think a lot of the kids really do take in those
books that you read and they might not remember
every detail but they remember the general ideas
and they remember how it makes them feel and
I think that doing something like this will just
be a fun way to to spend a class time in the
library just as a something different if nothing
else because we're getting close to the end of
the year and having kids sit and listen to books
for for the last couple weeks They know it's
getting close to summer too. Sitting, expecting
them to pay attention is challenging at times.
So trying to come up with something new and different
that will keep them entertained but still has
something to do with books. I think this is what
we're going to try. So I'm looking forward to
trying this out and seeing how it turns out overall
with my students. But that's my idea. Think that's
a great idea. I think that'll be a lot of fun.
It's something different It's good way to kind
of review their knowledge and like you said it
kind of since your campus already does that for
the Third fourth and fifth graders. Yeah, that's
a great way to kind of introduce it and see if
that's something that they would like to participate
in later on because I think there might be some
kids that maybe choose not to participate in
it because they might think it's too much work
or it's too hard or something that like introducing
it this way kind of gives them some background
knowledge and what it is a little bit of experience
with it and so they can kind of be like okay
well it's not so scary it's not so much pressure
it's just fun you know Great idea. Let me know
how that goes. I'm very interested I'm looking
forward to it. I get it. It's gonna take a couple
weeks for me to prep everything That's the one
thing it will take some time some prep work on
the front end But I think it'll be worth it.
I think the kids are really gonna enjoy it. So
yeah, I'll let you know how it goes cool All
right, well for our next book that we got from
TLA we're going to talk about Earl and the Worm,
the Bad Idea and Other Stories. This one is by
Greg Pizzoli. He wrote it and illustrated it.
We have talked about him on the podcast before,
but he's a pretty prolific writer and has written
and illustrated. Goodreads says that he's done
over 50 children's books, so he's just kind of
unavoidable and that's okay. So we're going to
talk about him again. This particular book was
published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2025, I believe
in this month in April. It hasn't won any awards
and it's not on any lists just yet. Greg Pizzoli
went to school in Pennsylvania where he got his
undergrad in English literature from Millersville
University after taking a couple of years off
to volunteer for the AmeriCorps Volunteers in
Service to America program. He got his master's
in fine arts and fine art and book arts and printmaking
from the University of Arts in Philadelphia.
He is married to artist, teacher and author Kay
Healy, and they have two daughters together and
they currently live in South Philadelphia. Some
of his other books, he's got lots, like you said,
being credited for over 50 books. His first published
book, The Watermelon Scene, won the Geisel Award
in 2013. He's won the Geisel honor two more times
since then for Good Night Owl and The Book Hog.
Earl and Worm number two, The Big Mess and Other
Stories comes out in July of this year. And Earl
and Worm number three, Snow Problem and Other
Stories comes out in November of this year. Yeah,
so this book series, Earl and Worm is kind of
a, it looks like it's a new early reader book
series. Well, it's going to be a book series
anyway. In July, it'll be officially a series,
I suppose. But it's kind of in the vein of elephant
and piggy. So for this particular book, Worm
is disgruntled when Earl the bird moves in next
door. Earl is cheerful, outgoing and loud, everything
that Worm is not. After a while, Earl wins Worm
over and they become best friends. And this book
chronicles the origin of their friendship and
it has two following stories in it. And it's
pretty much, the title kind of says it all. It's
the bad idea and other stories. So it's a total
of three stories wrapped in one. It has all of
Greg Pizzoli's signature, you know, dry wit and
humor in it, which I think is really entertaining
for adults reading the book. It has certain things
like, I, it took me reading this two times to
realize it was Earl the bird, like he's an early
bird. And I was like, oh my. goodness, I should
have noticed that sooner, but I really didn't
because he never says Earl the bird felt foolish
anyway. But it has a little little things like
that kind of sprinkled in there. So it's pretty
entertaining, I think, for adults and for kids.
It has all of that signature Illustrative style
of like the bold colors the lots of straight
lines. It makes it really defined and kind of
easy to See all the pictures because it's still
got a mostly like white background with those
bright colors really defined shapes kind of makes
it easy for kids to Imitate the pictures and
kind of become artists themselves and kind of
expand upon that really Simple text, I like that
it's broken up into three stories. I think this
one would be kind of a good introduction to like
chapter books. I think you could get away with
calling it a chapter book for pre -k and just
saying you're gonna, because it is kind of long
since it is three stories, but it's simple enough
that I think you could do it pretty easily within
like, you know, Seven or eight minutes like a
read aloud it within seven or eight minutes as
long as you don't you know Stop a whole lot.
Just kind of keep going so I think it would hold
the kids attention for a while and If it doesn't
if you feel like you read the first story and
you can tell that they need to move You could
just stop it there, but I think reading with
this this with the whole class I would do it
toward the end of the year and I would Call it
a chapter book and explain that there are books
that are longer that have chapters that are just
parts of stories where you can just read a little
bit and kind of you know, there's kind of not
a break but you know there's a kind of a clean
cut spot to stop and come back to it later cuz
some books are longer and some books you know
grown up books you have to you can't sit read
all in one sitting so i think this would be a
good way to kind of introduce that. Could it
also use it as like an introduction to graphic
novels because of the way it's written? There's
no word bubbles or anything in it, but just with
the way it's written with kind of the text Over
the pictures like it is. I think it would be
and Like the picture telling so much of the story
I think it would be a good introduction to graphic
novels if you wanted to use it like that Like
a very early introduction to it But I really
enjoyed it. It has lots of kind of social and
emotional learning with Earl and Worm because
they don't get along. Well, really, Earl gets
along with Worm. It's Worm that doesn't want
to get along with Earl at first. So you could
have a lot of social -emotional discussions with
that. I enjoyed this one a lot. I mean, everything
Greg Pizzoli does is kind of funny. It has lots
of... that social and emotional aspect to it.
Yeah, I think it'll be a good one. I agree with
you. I think this was a great story. I really
enjoyed it. I connected with Worm so much because
Worm is just like, people, which is a feeling.
It's true. It's just, and so I like, I was just
right there with him like, yes, why is this bird
just bugging him? It was just a sweet, it's a
very cute, fun story. I really enjoyed it. And
like we've said, Greg Pizzoli has just that great
sense of humor, where, you know, he can be sarcastic
and, and have just a good time and be fun. And
so this is, I agree with you, this is a great
book. I love the idea. I definitely think that
this is the kind of book that you're gonna have
kids that are like, I want that book because
I'm a big kid, I can read this book. And so it's
like that early, like you said, early chapter
book kind of thing where it's like, this book
has three books in it. This is three stories.
We'll really grab a lot of kids' attention to
be like, ooh, I can be like one of the big kids
and I can have a book that has more than one
part to it kind of thing. But while keeping the
text at that simplistic, appropriate for younger
students. I love that. He's his books are always
so clean in that the words don't come over the
pictures. There's always like that blank space
on the page where the where the text is separated
from the rest from the rest of the image so that
you can clearly see what's going on in the pictures
and it's just he does such a great job and. I
agree with you. I think this is going to be one
of those books that lots of kids are going to
enjoy reading. It's a great one to introduce
some of those beginning chapter book concepts
to them. So yeah, I agree. For the makerspace
activity for this book, I'm not gonna lie, I
kind of struggled with it a little bit because
a lot of it, this particular story is just Earl
and Worm. Kind of learning to get along and being
good friends Which is great. It just doesn't
lend itself to a particular makerspace all that
well But the very last story in it is called
the poem and in the poem Worm is writing a poem
at her desk and she kind of struggles to Finish
the poem and in the end she ends up making the
poem for Earl. So I think a fun thing to do at
the very end of this book would be to have the
kids draw a picture or write something. I know
with pre -k most of them can't write yet and
that's okay. They're still learning but I think
maybe telling them that they can draw a picture
for a friend or a picture for a teacher or a
parent. anybody else really I might encourage
them to draw a picture for a friend in particular
because just because the book is about two friends
but I think I would just encourage them to write
it for anybody at all and just have them draw
a picture do something kind for somebody else
since kindness and getting along with others
is kind of a central theme of it I think that's
what I would do it for a makerspace Just do crayons.
I guess we got we're we're all about drawing
today on this particular episode, aren't we?
Yeah But yeah, that's okay Something for somebody
else really enjoy doing so they do. Yeah they
do and it's important for fine motor skills and
Creativity and all that all the things it's always
good. So Absolutely. I love that idea that that'll
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