Finding It a Mystery How to Teach Mysteries in the Classroom? WHOBERT Can Help!

WHOBERT WHOVER, OWL DETECTIVE has been flying out in the world for about three months now, and one thing I have heard from booksellers and teachers is that they want texts to introduce the mystery genre to young readers. Terms like clue, evidence, eyewitness and culprit can be difficult to explain, especially considering that the genre can seem a little dark. Here’s where Whobert can swoop in and help!

WHOBERT WHOVER, OWL DETECTIVE features classic mystery terms but with a fun and light-hearted twist: Whobert is a bit of a dunce detective, so kids are picking up on the real clues while Whobert misinterprets them in his quest to determine what happened to Perry the Possum. This makes young readers themselves the detectives, allowing the meaning behind mystery terminology to hit home as they correctly identify the evidence through textual and visual cues. Plus, kids get to laugh along the way as Whobert’s misinterpretations get more and more dramatic and their own sleuthing skills get sharpened!

Thanks to the help of Kirsten Cappy and Curious City, Whobert can help kids take their newfound detective intelligence outside of the book and into the classroom. Through a free downloadable and printable Story Hour Kit at WhobertWhover.com, readers can put together their own detective notebook and start solving mysteries teachers and librarians create using character cards in the kit. In no time your classroom can be full of future Sherlocks!

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Jason Gallaher is a children’s book writer who loves to create stories that mix the flamboyant and wacky with the slightly dark. When not writing, Jason zips about Austin, Texas. He loves dinosaurs, unicorns, merpeople and Anjelica Huston. His debut picture book, WHOBERT WHOVER, OWL DETECTIVE, is out now from Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster.