Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Week One: Judging Books by Their Covers and Other Fun Activities!

Welcome to my Be More Bookish blog!  Here I will explore my reader's advisory assignments for our Be More Bookish adventures. 

I tried this online quiz that asks you to identify books by their covers.  Pretty fun!  See how many you can do here:  adults and children's (links you to sporcle.com)

Spoiler Alert: Not to brag, but I got most of the adult titles. =p  I missed The Prophet, a Brief History of Time (attempting over and again variations of History of the Universe? Stephen Hawking's History of the Universe?,  I also missed Where the Red Fern Grows (I tried Old Yeller: does that count for sad dog books?), and The Lost Symbol (I guessed, The Secret, haha). 

I wasn't as stellar at the children's books quiz, but still not too shabby considering my current part-time job has been my only real submersion into children's lit.  =p  Thumbs up, though: I did get The Giver

For assignment two we were to guess/judge book genre by cover.  Try it yourself here.  I didn't get the "Techno Thriller" cover, which, according to our non-cited authors at Wikipedia, is, "a hybrid genre, drawing subject matter generally from science fiction, thrillers, spy, action, and war."  So there you go.  I pretty much nailed the rest.  =)

And to end up the assignments, I'll share our Just For Fun link for the week:  a six-year-old describes her impressions of books by their covers here

Keep on reading!
--Anne B.

1 comment:

PaulaG said...

So which recommend book and genre sites will you be following during the training?