The
Monarch
Award:
Illinois'
K-3
Children's Choice Award
2009
Master List
Sponsored by
the
Illinois
School Library Media Association
2009 Nominee: Precious and the Boo HagHome alone with a stomach ache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.
Authors: Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss
Illustrator: Kristen Brooker
Book
Activities
- Questions: What are you afraid of when you are alone?
What is a cautionary tale?
- Language arts: Brainstorm for words to describe the Boo Hag and to
describe Precious. Make a list of rules for when you are home alone.
- Writing: Write a sequel when the Boo Hag comes back. Or make up
your own monster and tale. Look at the photos of sharecroppers on
the website below. Write a story about one photo.
- Math: Study coins and the images on them. Make up math problems with coins.
- Science: Discuss share cropping, planting corn.
- Social Studies: Research Boo Hags and other folk monsters from the South.
- Drama: Act out a portion of the story using props.
- Cooking/Food: Discuss the fact that Pruella hated clean water and
the shortage of clean water in the world.
- Art: Analyze the art then make folk art collages.
- Music: Make up a song for "Pruella is a Boo Hag..."
- Movement: Play jacks.
- Technology: Draw a picture of a monster in Kid Pix. Add a text
box to tell about the monster.
Related Books
- Books by Patricia McKissack:
- Flossie and the Fox, Mirandy and Brother Wind, The Dark Thirty and sequel
- Shrek by William Steig
- Tailypo by Paul Galdone
- Wiley and the Hairy Man
- Leonardo and the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
Websites
2009 Nominee Resources