What Would You Do in a Book About You?: Graduation Event Kit

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IN A BOOK ABOUT YOU?: GRADUATION EVENT KIT

Best Users: PreK Teachers, Educators, School Librarians, Community Programs
Best Audience: Children Grades 00-12
 

ABOUT THE GRADUATION KIT

We celebrate our students’ milestones to both honor their time in our classrooms and to encourage them to take their next bold step in education and life. The picture book What Would You Do in a Book About You? (HarperCollins) opens the future to your readers’ imagination.

“If your life were a book with pictures and pages, what would YOU do to be read through the ages?” —What Would You Do in a Book About You?

If this picture book feels like the basis for a celebration, we have taken elements of the story and illustrations to help you create a rich, meaningful event with the following elements:

Readers Theater Script
Can you imagine each of the graduates stepping to the mike and reciting one of the joyful verses of What Would You Do in a Book About You? for gathered families? Want an editable file to assign roles to your students?
DOWNLOAD WWYD: Readers Theater Script (Word Doc)


Graduation Certificate
Using Joey Chou’s incredible image of a book bursting open with possibilities, we offer you a graduation completion certificate with blanks to fill in.

Mini-Book Medallion
Consider gifting your graduates with a mini-book. With a hole punch and ribbon, the book can become a celebratory medallion. Place the Mini-Book Medallion over graduates’ heads to symbolize the life story they will continue to create!

Mortar Board Craft
Why not have mortar boards as unique as the graduates? Whether you want to get creative with mortar board hats or avoid having your students purchase the traditional graduation hat, we have provided a craft that only needs paper, scissors, glue, and a dash of creativity.

Bookmarks

Just like the children in the book, your students are “amazing, astonishing, astounding, absorbing, and awe-inspiring.” Remind them of this fact with multicultural, one-sided, printable bookmarks.

“What Would You Do in a Book About You? is a great resource as it gives you everything you need to make a graduation day happen. But there’s a unique twist! You don’t have to throw money at the project, and instead you get your students involved in the process! I can’t wait to explore this book further and see just how far I can make it go.!” —Jonathan Dolce, Public Librarian

DOWNLOAD WWYD: Graduation Event Kit (PDF)

Mortar Board Craft: Step-by-Step Photos

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Images © Joey Chou
 

ABOUT THE BOOK

What Would You Do in a Book About You?
by Jean Reidy
Illustrated by Joey Chou
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN-13: 9780063041509
Age Range: 4+ Years

For fans of Oh, The Places You’ll Go! and The Wonderful Things You Will Be, What Would You Do in a Book About You? will empower kids to reach for their dreams. From Zolotow Honor award-winning author Jean Reidy (Truman) and illustrated by Joey Chou, this lyrical picture book has pitch-perfect rhythm and rhyme and makes for a great read-aloud.

No dream is too big or too small in this heartwarming, heart-building book about you!

So, stop. Dream. Think it through. And remember, there is so much you can do. Here is an exuberant book that asks what wonderful, endless possibilities your story and your future might hold, making YOU the author of your own powerful tale.

Perfect for a graduation, a new baby, a birthday, or any milestone in a child’s or adult’s life, this book celebrates everything you are capable of doing and becoming. For after all, the best stories are the ones that you will write…

“When you use your imagination and tell your own stories, there are endless possibilities for magic, mayhem, fun, and learning. The layered, geometric illustrations include cartoon characters with various skin tones inhabiting colorful, detailed worlds that burst with life and movement. The text has a call-and-response feel that lends itself to reading out loud.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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“Featuring upbeat rhymes and busy, cheerful animated art, this peppy, motivational read invites kids to imagine what they could do or be, during playtime and beyond.”
—Booklist

THE GIVEAWAY WINNERS

Curious City gave away 20 individual hardcover copies of What Would You Do in a Book About You? to educators and librarians. Our thanks to HarperCollins for the generous donation!