Cover Art and other illustrations Flashcards
What is the name and author of this book?
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Shang
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) What honor was this book awarded?
(3) In what state is this book set?
(1) Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
(2) Newbery Honor
(3) Maryland!
What is the name and author of this book?
How to Speak Cat by Aline Newman
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) Where is this book set?
(3) What genre is this book?
(1) Polar Bear Scientists by Peter Lourie
(2) Alaska, especially Barrow, Alaska
(3) Non-fiction
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) Where is this book set?
(3) What major historical event serves as the backdrop of this story?
(4) What genre is this book?
(1) The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
(2) France
(3) World War II
(4) Historical fiction
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) What genre is this book?
(1) Fantasy League by Mike Lupica
(2) Realistic fiction
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
Miss Spitfire by Sarah Miller
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) What genre is this book?
(1) Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto
(2) Short stories
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) What genre is this book?
(1) A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
(2) Biography
What is the name and author of this book?
The Old Willis Place by Mary Hahn
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) What name is used for the animal featured here by the people of this book?
(3) What genre is this book?
(1) Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
(2) Fliers
(3) Fantasy
What is the name and author of this book?
Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) What genre is this book?
(1) Twelve Minutes to Midnight by Christopher Edge
(2) Victorian mystery
(1) What is the name and author of this book?
(2) What illness affected the main character in this book when she was a young girl?
(3) What genre is this book?
(1) El Deafo by Cece Bell
(2) Meningitis
(3) Realistic fiction (in graphic novel form)
The picture shows the claws and paw of a polar bear. How are the pads of the feet and claws helpful adaptations for a polar bear?
The bumps on the pads of the feet offer traction on the ice.
The claws are used for gripping the ice and prey.
Along the horizon you can see a phenomenon of atmospheric ice crystals. What happens (i.e. what does it look like) and what is this called?
Small rainbows appear on the horizon formed by the ice crystals.
This is called sun dogs.
The dots on the picture indicate polar bear dens.
What three countries are closest to these dens?
United States (Alaska), Canada and Russia
What reality of polar bear life is shown in this picture?
The bone pile is a place local people put bones of whales they have captured and harvested.
Polar bears visit the bone pile when they are unable to find prey on the ice after the ice pack has receded north in warmer temperatures.
The main character in this book first lived with this woman in Ridgeway, South Carolina.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Mamie Johnson’s grandmother,
Leo Bolton, nicknamed “Bones, introduced the main character to the activity that became her passion and career.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Bones was Mamie’s uncle and her first baseball play mate.
The woman shown here worked as a dietician, having her daughter live with family members until she was able to care for daughter herself.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Show here, Della Belton, was Mamie’s mother
Banneker Recreation Center, shown here, was the the site of this main character’s first major successes.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Banneker Field was the site of recreational sports for Black people in the Washington, D.C. area and where Mamie was discovered by the scout for the Indianapolis Clowns.
These two women met at a sports memorabilia shop, a meeting that led to a book.
A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green
Show are Mamie “Peanut” Johnson (left) and Michelle Green (right)
The gray hand, likely representing danger or harm, crushes a butterfly.
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
The Nazi soldier crushed a butterfly, Monique and Sevrine’s symbol of freedom.
The main character and her friend enjoy candies from the local candy store, but are saddened when the owner is forced to leave their town.
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
Monsieur Marks is Jewish and is forced out of Choisy-le Roi by the Nazi soldiers.
As part of the French Resistance, people hid in secret rooms beneath houses in hopes of escaping to freedom.
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
Sevrine and her parents hid in a basement cellar beneath Monique and Marcelle’s home. Marcelle had hidden other families there also.
Two friends exchange gifts when they are forced apart for safety reasons.
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
Sevrine gives Monique a Star of David necklace, a Jewish symbol, which Monique holds in her hand in this illustration.
In this book, butterflies are a symbol of freedom.
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
Monique and Sevrine set a butterfly to fly out the window at night, which Sevrine imagines to be her family.
A Nazi, the cause of the war, crushes a butterfly in his hand, just as the Nazis killed millions of Jewish people.
And here, Monique and Marcelle are surrounded by butterflies, which Monique interprets as a sign of Sevrine’s survival.
