{"id":2916,"date":"2011-11-28T08:13:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2011-11-14T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T06:25:41","slug":"piboidmo-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/piboidmo-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"PiBoIdMo: Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week for Picture Book Idea Month<\/a> I am continuing to brainstorm possible ideas for homemade big books for baby storytimes. So far I’ve considered ideas for Mother Goose rhymes<\/a>, circular\/sequence stories<\/a>, and songs and poems<\/a>. This week I’ve been thinking about question-and-answer books.<\/p>\n

Question-and-answer is another type of structure that crops up in the books I use for baby storytime: think about Where’s Spot<\/em> and Where’s Maisy?<\/em> and just about every Karen Katz book. I can come up with quite a few ideas for this type of book; the question will be whether I can illustrate them to my satisfaction. <\/p>\n

Find the Bugs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very simple idea: Create a few double-page spreads, and on each page ask, “Can you see the ladybug?” or “Can you see the inchworm?” I’d like to make it a pretty easy search-and-find, so the bugs won’t really be hiding. But if I can put in, say, a red strawberry and a red flower on the same page as the ladybug, and a peapod and a feather on the inchworm page, then we could point to each object and decide if it’s the bug. <\/p>\n

Can You See?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought of this one for my shapes storytime…the first question would be, “Can you see a sun?” and it would be a round yellow circle. The next page would be a page with the sun in the sky, with a few more details (swirlies and rays) on the yellow circle. “Can you see a triangle?” would go with a green triangle, which on the next page would be a pine tree under the sun. I’d see if I could come up with a couple more pages. Maybe an oval lake? <\/p>\n

More! More! More!<\/strong><\/p>\n

What’s your favorite question-and-answer book to share in storytime? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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