1. Locating Information : Book Parts and Features
Compiled by Cathy Anthis using information and images from various sources, including; Study Island, Amazon.com, Perma-bound, and others

2. Parts of a book
Call Number
Spine
Cover
Title Page

3. Title and Author Author: the person who wrote the book
Title: the name of the book
The Hobbit
The Cat in the Hat
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dr. Seuss is both
the Author and
the Illustrator

4. Illustrator – the person who drew or created the pictures or illustrations
Dr. Seuss -
Clement Hurd –
Trina Schart Hyman -
Stacy Curtis -

5. Publisher, Place of Publication, and Copyright date or Publication Date
Publisher - the company that produces, prints and distributes the book
Place of Publication (City, State, Country)
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
London, England
Examples:
Random House, Inc.
Scholastic, Inc.
Simon & Schuster
Harper Collins Publishers
Capstone Press
Copyright date, or date of Publication
2006
2009
2015

6. Title Page – usually tells the title, author, illustrator, and the publisher

7. Verso – the back of the title page
Verso – gives publication information such as the copyright date, publisher, and place of publication

8. Table of Contents
The table of contents lists the major parts of the book, like units and chapters .
It is found in the front of the book.
It gives the page number where each unit or chapter begins.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book - 1
Chapter One: Picking the Right Dog - 4
Chapter Two: Training Your Puppy - 13
Chapter Three: Enjoying Your Adult Dog - 25
Chapter Four: The Older Years - 36
Chapter Five: Letting Go - 48

9. Glossary
A glossary is a list of important words from the book and their meanings.
You will find the glossary in the back of the book. C
COLONY - A community of tens of thousands of worker bees, usually containing one queen, with or without drones. COMB HONEY - Honey presented in its original wax comb. CRYSTALLIZATION - Honey is a supersaturated solution. Crystals will develop in honey when glucose crystallizes out of solution. D
DRONE - A male bee. E
EXTRACTED HONEY - Honey removed from the comb by a special machine called an extractor and sold in liquid or crystallized form.

10. Index
The index is a list of all topics found in the book and the page numbers where they are discussed.
The list is in alphabetical order and is found in the back of the book.
Obtuse Angle, 615 Obtuse triangle, 619 Odd integers, 145 Odds, 597 One as multiplicative identity, 59 Open half-plane, 402 Operations inverse (opposite), 35, 96 order of, 52 Opposite(s) additive inverse, 27 of a binomial, 318 of a number, 13 operations, 35, 96

11. Footnotes Footnote – found at the bottom of a book page
explains which information source the author used.
Footnotes can also be used to expand on information in the paragraph.
The footnote number appears in the text of a report. Then, the footnote number appears at the bottom of the page with the source information. BOOK Look below at how a footnote for a book should be written. 1 Authors Full Name, Title of the Book (City of Publication: Publisher, Date of Copyright) Page Number. Example: 1 Katie Tanner, The Life of a Movie Star (Chicago: Star Press, 2005)