What we are up to in 2nd Grade Library: Catalina Neon.

The Library of Congress, in partnership with the current Poet Laureate, Juan Herrera Felipe, are sponsoring an online ebook project for 2nd and 3rd graders in the United States. Throughout this school year they will be publishing chapters of a book about the adventures of a girl named Catalina Neon and her dog Tortilla.  Here is a link to the webpage all about this exciting project.

In our 2nd grade library classes here at Sprague, we have read this first chapter and begun thinking about ideas to submit to the Library of Congress about what chapter two could be about. The prompt they have given us reads:

“Where does Tortilla go? Describe in detail—make us see, hear, and feel where Catalina’s doggy is!” 


Students have come up with some fun ideas and we will select three in each class and spend some time working on writing about those ideas to help the reader see, hear and feel what is happening. We will be submitting our work to the Library of Congress on the November 1st due date.

The Project plans to add chapters to the Catalina Neon book throughout the school year - ending with a final chapter in June 2017.  We will be periodically checking back into the website to see the progress on the book and perhaps to work on more suggestions for future chapters.

Perhaps it is too much to hope that one of our Sprague submissions will be selected as the inspiration for the next chapter, but you never know.

Read On!
Ms. J.