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ISBN 978-0-942235-73-9
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Agate
What Good Is
a Moose?
by Joy Morgan Dey
Illustrated by Nikki Johnson
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Reviews
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Item Number IN-LS1226
Agate:
What Good Is a Moose? $17.95
subscriber price $16.15
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Midwest
Booksellers Association
Choice Award
Best Children’s Picture Book 2008
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Winner 2008
Midwest
Independent Publishers Assocation
Best
Children’s Picture Book
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Winner 2007 Moonbeam
Awards
Silver -
Best Illustrator
Bronze -
Best Picture Book
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Winner 2008
Independent Publisher Book Awards
Best Children’s Book
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Finalist 2008
Ben Franklin Book Awards
Best Children/Young Adult’s Cover Design
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Winner 2008
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards
Best Children’s Literature
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Meet Agate the moose. He’s a big
brown galoot who doesn’t think he’s very special
when he compares himself to his animal friends
who are named after gemstones. “What good is a
moose?” he asks himself. What good is a moose,
indeed - his beautiful friends help him to see
that, just like his namesake the agate, true
beauty comes from what’s inside. This stunning
book features original watercolors and a
poignant, witty message that resonates with
anyone who has ever felt like they don’t quite
belong.
This book is a terrific gift for kids, parents,
grandparents, teachers, art book and children’s
book collectors, moose lovers and rock hounds.
Get one for yourself and one for each gem in
your life! Includes bonus pages with information
on all the birthstones and agates, too. 48
pages, watercolor illustrations, 9" x 10".
Hardcover with jacket. |
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Agate “Life’s
Marvelous Zoo” Poster
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Thanks to Agate’s success, we’ve had a big
demand for these posters! Printed on
high-quality poster stock, now you can display
the whole Agate crew in your home. All the
animals from the book are here along with
their birthstone names and corresponding
months. A dynamic and colorful touch for any
nursery or child’s room. 24" x 36", full
color, ships rolled.
Item Number IN-LS1650
Agate: What Good
Is a Moose? $12.95
subscriber price $11.65
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Agate Gift Combo - Buy both and Save
Can’t decide between the book and the poster?
Get both and save!
Item Number
IN-LS1651
Agate: What Good Is
a Moose? $27.95
subscriber price $25.15
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From Amazon.com
5.0 out of 5 Stars
Endearing book, November 16, 2012
By Conni
This review is from: Agate: What Good Is a
Moose? (Hardcover)
This endearing book has a message that is so true.
Along with the great poster it makes a must read
gift for any child.
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From Letters to Agate
September 6, 2012
By Denna' Muncy (Newport NC)
Oh, what a lovely surprise you were to find today
as I sat researching the Internet. My name is
Denna' and I live here in Newport, North Carolina.
I belong to the local Women of the Moose Lodge
#2160 and am involved with helping to upstart a
Kid's Moose program. This program will not only
help children from the ages of 3-19 learn about
community service it will help teach skill sets
which are seldom found in our school system today.
Once not so long ago as a Marines child; I would
move around often and even though I loved
traveling, starting in a new school always made me
feel like a 'Moose' I know that most of the
children in our program, are from military
families and they too have shared feeling like a
'Moose'.
In finding your lovely written and illustrated
book today; it not only gave me a warmth in my
heart, but I have knew it to be a great find to
help our children. I would like to introduce Agate
to them ALL and use him and the moral of this
story as a part of the foundation for teaching in
our program. I have yet to purchase this book but
rest assured that I will in the very near future!
I am so excited to have this during our future
meetings and know that the kids will love it too!
I also want to share it with our military school
system; as well as our local school system and
library here!
I hope that in sharing this here, it will soon
spread everywhere we have a Moose Lodge. You
see Agate, a Kids Moose program has never been
done for children as young as three normally they
offer programs to teenagers but I believe that
helping teach our younger children of today will
certainly help change their futures tomorrow.
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From Amazon.com
5.0 out of 5 Stars
Fabulous Life Lesson Beautifully Taught,
June 19, 2012
By Jennifer
M Low (Collegeville, PA United States)
This review is from: Agate: What Good Is a
Moose? (Hardcover)
I am an elementary art teacher and a collector of
children's books. When I originally discovered
this book in a tiny bookshop in New England I was
immediately drawn to this book because of its
gorgeously simplistic illustrations. After I read
it I knew I'd found the "gem" of my collection!
The message of the text makes this book an
unforgettable and essential addition to ANY
library... children's or otherwise!!!
I have never written a review for anything on
Amazon before but felt if anything deserved in,
this book does! I have purchased several copies
over the years to hand out to struggling friends
and students as well as to give as gifts. Everyone
else who enters my classroom or expresses an
interest in seeing my children's book collection
is shown this book first... and many are brought
to tears. Nothing has the potential to teach life
lessons as simply and eloquently and poignantly as
do children's books!
I read this book every year to my second graders
as a motivation for our ceramic unit. We make
"beauty pots" that resemble agates to remind us of
the lesson of this book: inside beauty is more
important than outside beauty and, just like an
agate, we are ALL filled with a unique and
beautiful potential! This book and this lesson
make such an impact on my students that I have
actually begun a collection of agates on a window
sill in my classroom: students bring them to me as
gifts at the end of the school year.
I heartily recommend purchasing this book!!!
...multiple copies of it! I'm buying more today!
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From Barnes & Noble
5.0 out of 5 Stars
Agate, February 21, 2010
By Anonymous
This review is from: Agate: What Good Is a
Moose? (Hardcover)
What a delightful story and watercolor pictures to
share with a young person. This gives the message
that whomever you are and however you look, you
are worthwhile. Can't think of a better message to
give a child--or an adult. True confession:
although I will share this with my young friends
and students, I bought this for myself!
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From Barnes & Noble
5.0 out of 5 Stars
A Diamond in The Rough, June 6, 2009
By BarbaraG
This review is from: Agate: What Good Is a
Moose? (Hardcover)
Digging for a book to help infuse character into a
science lesson or vice versa, I recently unearthed
this clever rhyming story about an awkwardly
gangly moose named Agate.
As he compares himself to his beautifully polished
friends, all of whom have sparkly names of
birthstone gems and correspondingly brilliant
characteristics, Agate asks, "What good is a
moose?"
To assuage his self-doubt, Agate's friends
challenge him to look inward for what makes him
shine. Much like trying to find plain agate rock,
whose beauty is found within, Agate the Moose has
to do some excavating to find the qualities that
make him every bit as valuable as his treasured
friends.
Agate's message reinforces the adage, "Don't judge
a book by its cover" and spotlights the importance
of valuing one's inner character.
An extension writing exercise can pose the
question, "What makes me shine?" or "What do I
look for in friends?" This gem will supplement the
calendar lesson for younger students as each of
Agate's 12 friends represents a birthstone.
The information in the back about gemstones will
serve as a geology lesson as well. This book is a
diamond in the rough that I enthusiastically
recommend.
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