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March Book Madness 2025
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What Is March Book Madness?
What Is March Book Madness?
Just like March's College Basketball Tournament, we are having a book tournament to celebrate March is Reading Month. With help from our COE PTA, we have selected 16 books from a list of staff favorites to go head to head and see which book is the collective COE favorite this year.
Some are from last century-some from this century!
Let's get ready to read!
The Finals Have Arrived!
Wednesday and Thursday
Vote by Thursday 3/20 at 4:00
The Final Two Competitors have been decided!
Both Books Won 87% of the vote!
Officer Buckle and Gloria
and
The Creepy Crayon
How Does it Work?
How Does it Work?
All families and classes are encouraged to read the 16 books for our tournament. You can read books from home, check them out at the library, and/or check out the staff recordings in the toolbar above. On 2/24 the bracket will come home and each student can make thier predictions on which book will win each match-up. Send that back to school by 2/28 and we'll find out who in each class predicted the winners of the most match-ups!
All book titles are listed below.
February 24-28 We will read/vote on the 8 books on the West side of the tournament bracket
March 3-7 We will read/vote on the 8 books on the East side of the tournament bracket
March 10-17 We will re-read/vote on the Elite 8 books that won from the West and East sides of the tournament bracket
March 17-18 We will re-read/vote On the Final Four Books
March 19-20 We will do the final vote for the Champion
March 21 The Winning Book will be announced and Winning Brackets in each classroom will be determined.
Families will be able to vote here on the site while teachers do a class vote as well
This Year's Competitors
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (1964)
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood (1984)
If You Give a Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff (1985)
The Mitten by Jan Brett (1989)
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman (1995)
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch (1995)
Andrew's Loose Tooth by Robert Munsch (1998)
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer (1999)
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst (2000)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems (2003)
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (2004)
Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt (2008)
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin (2012)
That is NOT a Good Idea by Mo Willems (2013)
The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak (2014)
The Creepy Crayon by Aaron Reynolds (2022)
To listen to any of the stories use the recordings toolbar at the top of the page or links below
Find all of our books read by COE staff here
Be sure to place your vote and help your favorites move on in the tournament
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