These lessons on book care are great, and I will use parts of them as I teach this lesson each year. For every error there must be an example of correct behavior, and the correct behavior must look as interesting and profitable as the incorrect behavior.
Kids ooohing and aaahing over damaged books just makes damaged books the stars.
The stars are the clean, well-taken of books that they should be coveting. Over the years, I've altered my lessons on sad books as I became convinced that students were learning more from me on how to damage books than they were learning about how to and why to take care of beautiful library books. Just thinking off the top of my head, but perhaps with the baby book idea below, I could counter with the thought that MY students aren't babies, and, therefore, their books aren't babies either, so they will be properly taken care of. I know that isn't completely logical, but it might make sense from a primary student's point of view with the appropriate theatrics. Thanks for sharing the lessons below.