Tips for Using Meet the Meerkat with children:
Can you run like a meerkat? Can you make sounds like a meerkat? Encourage your child to act like a meerkat, building on the facts they learned reading the book.
Tips for Using Meet the Meerkat with families:
Talk to families about using nonfiction books—books that have true facts—with children. Nonfiction books are important for young readers in developing literacy skills. Meet the Meerkat asks a series of simple questions: “What do you look like?” “Where do you live?” “What do you eat?” and more. Use these questions as a way to help children answer simple questions about themselves or family members. Parents can share the additional child friendly facts at the end of the book with children.