Sunday, July 26, 2020

Dewey and the 2020 Book Week slogan






Previously I have shared seven posts with ideas for exploring the Book Week slogan:

Curious Creatures, Wild Minds

My wild mind took an imaginary walk around the library and I realised nearly every Dewey section links with this slogan. (Here is a pinterest of Curious Creatures books)

001.944 monsters such as Yeti, Bigfoot, Kraken,  Loch Ness Monster, Bunyips and more. These are all CURIOUS CREATURES!




220.9 OR 222 Noah's Ark

Here are some books which retell the story of Noah.



398.20938 Aesop Fables



398.24 Tales and lore of plants and animals
For example: unicorns, mermaids, dragons, griffin, Pegasus and more







428 Language
Collective Nouns



590 Animals



595 Insects




597 Fish and reptiles




598 Birds (Pinterest of Australian bird stories)



599 Mammals



599.20994 Australian mammals such as Platypus



636 Pets
Unusual pets: Axolotl, hermit crab, silkworm



750 Art







782 Music
Carnival of the Animals



821 Poetry


900 History and Geography
Animals listed below come from Ann Jonas Aardvarks, disembark! Julia MacRae, 1991.
Curious Creatures from wild lands:




Africa - addax; aoudad; bongo; dik-dik; duiker; eland; fennec; gerenuk; guereza; hammerkop, hartebeest; kingspringer; kudu; marabou; oribi; serval; vervey; zoril (Pinterest of Picture books)



Middle East dromedary; lammergeier; markhor
Europe mouflon; wisent;
South and Central America caiman; capybara; coatimundi; guan; jagurundi; paca; pudu; tamandua; tuco-tuco; uakari; unau; vicuna, vizcacha;



North America condor; jabiru; margay; nene; pika; pronghorn; wapiti;
India chital; gaur; gavial; nilgal; wanderoo
Asia babirusa; barasingha, binturong; fancolin; ibex; jerboa; onager; ounce; pangolin; pecccary; peludo; rasse; ratel; siga; sika; tahr; takin; tapir;


New Zealand kiwi; takahe; tuatara;
Australia bandicoot; cassowary; echidna; emu; kookaburra; quokka; wallaroo; wombat




2 comments:

kinderbooks said...

Wow! So much to think about! I could do week on each!

Momo said...

AND thank you Kinderbooks for your terrific Pinterest collections which I linked in this post.