The Library Shelf
"Now your book is part of the library."
Their new book being placed on the shelf next to the old books from Page 11.
About this page
Remember the towering library shelves from early in the story? The squad's brand-new book is now being placed right beside those old volumes, and the circle quietly closes. Children who have followed the whole journey from observation to publication get a lovely payoff here, the readers have become authors. This page teaches something profound in a single image, that knowledge is a shelf everyone can add to. The books that inspired the squad now have a new neighbor, and someday another curious reader will pull it down and begin an adventure of their own.
Talk about it while you color
- How is the new book different from the old books on the shelf?
- Who do you hope will read the squad's book one day?
- If you wrote a book for this shelf, what would its cover look like?