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The Important Book
The important thing about THE IMPORTANT BOOK--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to). For the important thing about THE IMPORTANT BOOK is that the book goes on long after it is closed.
Paperback, 24 pages
Published
March 10th 1990
by HarperCollins
(first published January 1st 1949)
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The title of this book explains just what it is about...the simple things that surround us everyday and their importance! This book would be best to read to Kindergarten or 1st grade students and eventually it could be put into the classroom library for students to read either together or during independent reading. I think this book is so great because it allows for the students to develop a deeper appreciation for why we have the things that we do on this earth and why they are important to al...more
This book is good for teach the vocabulary word important. Students learn the meaning by the repetition in the book. The can connect to the word by finding and expressing things that they find important. An activity could include the students writing a story, drawing pictures with captions, and/or making a collage of the things they find important. Defining things that are important to a person builds their characters and allow them to see the values of their lives. I see this as an any age book...more
The important thing about this book is that it is fabulous. It is true that if I could give this book 6 stars, I would. It is true that if I could give this book to every child who would eventually need to write an essay, I would. And when my daughter is ready to learn how to write, this book will help me explain the difference between the main idea and secondary supporting details and the various places they should go in a well constructed paragraph. For now, though, this book is just a joy to...more
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Great book to use with younger students at the beginning of the year. A follow up activity could be for the class to make their own 'The Important Book' with each child making a page. My instructor read this to us with a group of kids and she made the point of saying during the reading "This is what the author thinks is the most important thing, you might think differently." To me this was perfect because you wouldn't want a child to have a narrow view of what's 'the' most important thing about...more
I was excited to read this book because I completely agreed with the idea of a book that illustrates how to determine the most important aspects in contrast to other characteristics. I thought the first page was very simple, and true to everyday observations. Many of the examples, however, I did not agree with. For many of the items It said that the most important thing was the color or some other outward characteristic, and I think this is a shallow message to send to children. It also implies...more
Jun 21, 2010
Relyn
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
teachers, parents, kids
Recommended to Relyn by:
Mrs. Sackman
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I can not believe I never read this book before. It's absolutely fantastic! What a teaching tool. I plan to use it next year for main idea, descriptive language, and Mother's Day. This year I used it for Mother's Day. One of my friends shared her Mother's Day plan with me, and it was wonderful. Basically, we read The Important Book to our class.... blah, blah, blah..... and end up making a page for our mothers just like the book's pattern. I used a selection of cool glittered scrapbook paper, 3d...more
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Margaret Wise Brown's "The Important Book" is a heartwarming book addressing very "important concepts. Leonard Weisgard's illustrations change from color to black and white every other sheet of pages. This supports the concept shift discussed on each page. Various fonts were used to identify with the uniqueness of each idea. In addition, the presentation of the font is creatively portrayed. For example, the spoon page has the writing on a torn sheet of notebook paper, the daisy page has pasted t...more
I read this book with my second graders and it became a wonderful project. They made a book as a class that had the most important things in it to them and it was a great way for them to express their creativity. I loved how simple, yet clenching the book was. When you look at it, it looks like it may be very dry but once you start reading the first page you know it is going to be wonderful. I would highly suggest this book as a lesson learning book, help children think about what they think are...more
This is a wonderful book that I adapted to use for a writing project with my fourth graders. The book highlights the important characteristics of certain items. Students use the same format to highlight who/what is important to them in their lives. The stories are touching.
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I have been using this book throughout my career to teach characteristics/properties. Other than relying too much on color, this is an excellent book. Students mimic Wise's style. Some years students describe themselves, o...more
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I have been using this book throughout my career to teach characteristics/properties. Other than relying too much on color, this is an excellent book. Students mimic Wise's style. Some years students describe themselves, o...more
Margaret Wise Brown is one of my favorite children's book authors. As a preservice educator, I appreciate how she asks the student to elaborate in a very simple, straightforward way. This book spawns great conversations for young learners in expressing their ideas of the world around them. I would use this book as Professor Mays suggest, as an introduction piece in the first few weeks of school (K-1st grade). I would make a worksheet for them to illustrate what's important to them and fill in th...more
This book is informational and is about the importance of familiar objects. The text is rythmic and the illustrations are of real world objects which are depicted on whole pages and alternate from black and white to color. The predominant theme of this book is the importance of recognizing and valuing individual attributes.
Audience/Age Level: 4-7yrs
Instructional Ideas:
Oral Language: Discuss the importance of people/traditions/topics
Writing: List important things about self
Art: Draw picture of se...more
Audience/Age Level: 4-7yrs
Instructional Ideas:
Oral Language: Discuss the importance of people/traditions/topics
Writing: List important things about self
Art: Draw picture of se...more
It is not necessary to read the entire book during story time. I used only the 6th double-page spread during our recent library story time featuring "apples".
This one page gives a good description of an apple and pictures a whole apple, a sliced apple, and an apple tree. It summarizes that the "important thing about an apple is that it is round." You can ask the children what they believe is the important thing about an apple.
I gave each of the children a small apple to hold, telling them to wa...more
This one page gives a good description of an apple and pictures a whole apple, a sliced apple, and an apple tree. It summarizes that the "important thing about an apple is that it is round." You can ask the children what they believe is the important thing about an apple.
I gave each of the children a small apple to hold, telling them to wa...more
This was a wonderful read. I loved how it explained the importance of things that are in our world and everyday life. This book would be used in my classroom to show the importance of everything there is. I would have my students make their own important book and design it any way they wanted to. I would have them pick ten things that are important to them and write sentences explaining why they are important. I also want my students to know how important each and everyone of them are!!
This book did a great job keeping the main thing the main thing throughout this text. Although everything has different traits, there is always one main thing that is wonderful about an object. This book offers a great confidence booster, because being you is the most important thing of all!. Use this book as a foundation to have students tell you the most important things about them! The illustrations and poem like text offer a great and different genre for young readers.
It was great! Very poetic and taught some good life lessons for little ones. For example, the important thing about a shoe is that you put your foot in it (there are other things about shoes, but that is the important thing).
Some of the important things are debatable, like Brown states the important thing about a dairy is that it is white, whereas I might say that the important things about a daisy is that it grows or is a flower, but that is neither here nor there.
Some of the important things are debatable, like Brown states the important thing about a dairy is that it is white, whereas I might say that the important things about a daisy is that it grows or is a flower, but that is neither here nor there.
I would recommend this book to all grade level readers. It goes through a list of things that the author finds important. This would be a great introduction to a classroom activity, like having students write their own Important Book. I would then use it to become knowledgeable of my students' interests. For younger readers, I would have them make an ABC Important Book, listing what they think/feel is important with illustrations.
This book is a creative way to get to know your students. It discusses the importance of everyday things in a student's life that may get over looked and at the end it discusses the importance of you because "you are you"! It would be great to model an activity after this book where the students share important things in their own lives or about themselves- they could make their own important book.
Classic picture book first published in 1949, but still resonates with children today. Opens up all kinds of discussions about what is important about many other things.
I was so happy that this book, one of my all-time favorites, was loved by my grandsons as well!
I used this book when I was teaching middle school. My students wrote their own Important Book and published it on a foldable.
I was so happy that this book, one of my all-time favorites, was loved by my grandsons as well!
I used this book when I was teaching middle school. My students wrote their own Important Book and published it on a foldable.
This book talks about familiar objects and things and what makes them important. This is a great book to introduce yourself as a teacher or even for students. At the beginning of the year the teacher can read this book and share with his/her students about the importants in their life and then students can create something or bring something into school that tells others about them.
The important book shares what the author thinks is important about many things. Create a bag of words (weather releated, objects, etc.) and have children randomly pick out a few. Have them write what they think is important about each of these things. Also, add "me" and have the write about what is important about themselves. They can creat their own book!
Great for 1st grade
Great for 1st grade
This book shows how everyday things are important. The book ends nicely with the important thing about "you". After reading this story, Children can write about why they are important. This book would be great at the beginning of the year where they can introduce themselves using this format. It is good for boosting self confidence by telling how special and important you are.
This would be a good book to have students write in a similar style. Students could pick something that is important to them and then three or four adjectives that describes them. Then as a class we would write and then share these important personal items. The repeating of the first line reiterates the items importance to the writer. Simple but loads of possibilities.
This is a great book to read to students on the first day of school. This book will inspire students to engage in writing. You can have your student to write about what is important about himself/herself. Also, it will help students to learn about Author's purpose. This informational piece will help them to learn about many important facts about different things.
The important thing about The Important Book is that it is simple. It is true and concise. It strikes at the heart of subjects clearly, but sometimes seems too obvious. It flows from one fact to the next with ease, and the last line on each page is the first line repeated. But the important thing about The Important Book is that it is simple.
Margaret Wise Brown books are among my favorite to use with children. I especially love this book as a way for students to introduce themselves to others and indicate people/places/things that are important in their lives. The important thing about this book is that its a great way to help children talk about important things in their lives.
I thought this book was brilliant. I picked it up just to glance through but was struck by how simple yet absolutely beautiful the writing was. Some of the pictures were fairly abstract and the illustrator used black and white pictures as well as color to contrast the images. I would highly recommend this book for use in a classroom!
The Important Book lets children explore and think about what they think is important about everday things like; rain, grass, the sun, etc. As an extention of this book, students can make their own "Important Book" or a class "Important Book". It helps students see different perspectives and see things in a diferent way.
This is a great book when teaching the importance of everyday objects. It is a fun book to read when introducing vocabulary to ELL students or pre-k or kindergarten beginning to build their vocabulary. This book has excellent pictures and can be used as an interactive read aloud. I really enjoyed reading this book :)
I liked this book. It is a great book to read in pre-K to spark a conversation or an activity where students talk or write about the important things in their lives and why they are important. It is a book that I saw many of my pre-K students reading during independent reading time as well.
One of my favorite books that excellently shows students how to summarize. It provides great examples. I would have students model writing like Brown does. I think this would be an amazing mini lesson. This would be nice for ELLs too because it is very precise and shows summarizing well.
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Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 60 years ago, her books still sell very well.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem....more
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Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem....more
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