The Dewey Decimal System

By Allan Fowler

Book Overview

Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0516201328
• ISBN13: 9780516201320
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Scholastic Library Publishing
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Clear, well-written introduction to library catalogues

This is a really easy read for children about eight years old and over and explains how the Dewey Decimal system came about, how it works, and how books are sorted and classified in libraries. The book is full of colour illustrations and photographs, and can be considered the definitive guide to library cataloguing for curious children.

Good for elementary library lessons

I use multiple copies of this book with third-graders in my job as a school librarian. It is highly accessible, due to type size and page format, with lots of photographs. I don't know how much a young child could get from this book reading it independently, but as part of a lesson with explanations and discussion it works very well. The opening pages, showing home libraries (one very organized in appearance, one not) are easy for children to identify with, and make it obvious that libraries intended for general use have to be very well organized!