Elementary Library

●​ Where does your food come from? ●​ How many different kinds of vegetables can you name? Can you think of any unusual ones? How would you describe what they taste like? ●​ Do you know anyone who has a garden? What is that garden like? Have you ever helped? What are the things needed to make plants grow? ●​ Have you ever wanted to do something but been afraid to start it? What was it? What made you finally do it? ●​ Have you ever grown anything from seed? ●​ Why were the bunnies eating the garden? What do rabbits need to survive?

Everybody in the Red Brick Building by Anne Wynter (E WYN) In the middle of the night, a chain reaction of noises wakes the residents of an urban apartment building, and then lulls them back to sleep.

Discussion prompts: ●​ What noises can we hear in our library?

●​ Have you ever been woken up by noise in your home? How did you fall back to sleep? ●​ An apartment building is a type of home. What other types of homes are there in our city? ●​ What do you notice in this picture that is not in the text? ●​ What do you notice about the type on this page? Why does it look like that? Listen by Gaby Snyder (E SNY) Illustrations and easy-to-read text urge the reader to go beyond the noise of the city to listen to a crow's caw, rain dripping onto a sidewalk, and whispered goodnights. Discussion prompts: ●​ Examine the end papers. What things do you see? What sound would each item make? Which of these sounds are also found in the story? What clues in the endpapers show what the story will be about? ●​ What does it mean to “listen past the noise”? ●​ Where does the story take place? How is this neighborhood like yours? How is it different? ●​ This book uses different kinds of type. What do you notice about the words on this page? Why are they like that? ●​ What is the difference between hearing and listening?

Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemie (E BLU)

People race down to the subway for shelter during a thunderstorm.

Discussion prompts: ●​ Look at the cover. What do you notice about the words? ●​ What is a subway? Have any of you ever traveled on a public train? What was it like? What did it sound like? ●​ How does rain sound? What does it feel like?

Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper (E CAM) Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear 155