Reading Level: Picture Book
(4 out of 5)
If you are looking for a cute way to teach the kiddos how to find books in the library this book will help. The shelf elf wants to help the librarian out by putting away the cart of books that were returned that day. So he tells you what the sticker on the spine means, explains that the shelves in the library are like neighborhoods, and tells you a little about Melvil Dewey. Then you are ready to start putting the books away. At each "neighborhood" the shelf elf explains what the Dewey decimals mean. For example, "The zero hundreds is the place to look, for encyclopedias or a Bigfoot book." and so on...
Then at the end of the book is a list of words of items that you can find within the book. Kind of an I Spy type thing. Very cute!
