[LM_NET] Target: "Car" books for elementary

[Kris Detmer <Kdetmer@COLUMBIA.K12.MO.US>]

I teach in a K-5 school, and I have had several students (nearly all boys) ask for 
"car" books.  I am aware that I haven't done much to provide for this particular 
interest.  (I confess that I know nothing about the topic and don't have much 
interest myself, so this is largely my fault.)  We need both everybody books and 
middle-upper elementary levels.  Race cars and sports cars seem to be the most 
commonly requested types, with monster trucks also high on the list.  Photography 
is highly preferred over drawings.

Here's my qualifier, though... I don't want one of those series where each book is 
16 pages long, about only one type of car, and costs $15... and there are 57 books 
in the series.  (Series like that are one of my pet peeves, but that thread is over 
so I won't go down that path.)  I want to get fewer than 5 comprehensive books that 
will satisfy my students' desire without spending a healthy chunk of my budget on 
books that don't meet my state requirements.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Kris

Kristina Detmer
Library Media Specialist
Russell Boulevard Elementary
Columbia, Missouri, USA
kdetmer@columbia.k12.mo.us

When I get a little money, I buy books; and, if any is left, I buy food and 
clothes." 
~attributed to Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus 

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