This is a colorful book that is based off of Fisher Prices’ Little People characters. Each character has their own unique feature to them, whether they are a certain race, such as African American or Asian, whether they have glasses, whether they are a girl or boy, or what kinds of clothes they are wearing. The book’s plot follows the characters while they explore different shapes and colors that they find throughout their town on their shopping trip. The Little People share what each shape that they find is, so that the reader learns to identify that shape with its name. This is the theme of the book. For example, one of the quotes used in the book states “The grocery stores has all colors and shapes. Find a green lettuce circle and round purple grapes. Look for an orange circle. …show more content…
Do you see white ovals anywhere?” This quote is placed on a white background which makes the text easy to read. Along with the text, there are two Little People children whom are looking at all of the different kinds of shapes and colors of a variety of foods. The pictures are bold and bright which makes the book appealing to younger children who are around ages preschool through second grade. The book ends with the children riding in their car on their way home. Once they arrive at home, they unload all of the treasures that they have found, with each treasure being a different shape and color. Little People Color and Shape Shop is a book that is great for children between the ages of preschool and second grade school years. The book contains words that should be easy to read for children in grades first through second grade, but
Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, is a novel with many complicated relationships and characters that are able to be represented and explained by using the Geometric Character Analysis. The Geometric Character Analysis is a language arts strategy that helps readers and students express the characters from a story by using shapes, size, color, shading, and placement. In this display of the Geometric Character Analysis, the Tangerine characters Paul, Erik, and Dad will be used.
Looking out across the stone-paved road, she watched the neighborhood inside the coffee colored fence. It was very similar to hers, containing multiple cookie-cutter homes and an assortment of businesses, except no one was there was her color and no one in her neighborhood was their color. All of them had chocolate skin with eyes and hair that were all equally dark. Across the road to her right, a yellow fence contained honey colored people. She enjoyed seeing all the little, squinted almond eyes, much smaller then her own, which were wide set and round. One little, sunshine colored boy with dark straight hair raised his arm and waved his hand, but before she could do the same back her father called her into the house. His lips were pressed and his body was rigid, the blue of his eyes making direct contact with her
Shapes are the first symbols that can be seen throughout the story. For example, the black box, and the town square are square shape. A square represents Shirley states, “the people of the village began to gather in the square.” Circles are also shown in the stool and in the white paper. Shirley Jackson wrote, “it had a black spot on it.”
At one shack they lived in, Anne’s neighbors had a couple of white children, and they would play with her often in the backyard. While going to elementary school, Moody did not have a clear sense of what it meant to be black or white. She only knew people as being people. It was when she was scolded and dragged out of a mo...
After a four week survey of a multitude of children’s book authors and illustrators, and learning to analyze their works and the methods used to make them effective literary pieces for children, it is certainly appropriate to apply these new skills to evaluate a single author’s works. Specifically, this paper focuses on the life and works of Ezra Jack Keats, a writer and illustrator of books for children who single handedly expanded the point of view of the genre to include the experiences of multicultural children with his Caldecott Award winning book “Snowy Day.” The creation of Peter as a character is ground breaking in and of itself, but after reading the text the reader is driven to wonder why “Peter” was created. Was he a vehicle for political commentary as some might suggest or was he simply another “childhood” that had; until that time, been ignored? If so, what inspired him to move in this direction?
Little Red Riding Hood, by Paul Galdone, is a children’s book that inspires and is meant to remind the audience to follow directions. It inspires the audience by combining fable characters to real world experiences such as children talking to strangers and listening to your parents and being more careful when going places you are not as familiar with. While some of the dialogue of Little Red Riding Hood, by Paul Galdone could be more in the intended audiences reading level, it's interesting storyline, visual elements, and focus on the value of following directions make this book more than worthy of inclusion on list of the “Top 100 Children’s Books”.
High school students in many American schools first read this book in an English class, which has been a staple for many schools. A required reading assignment exposes many more people to the book. Even though the book is considered to be a children’s book by many, it is still enjoyed by people of all ages.
There are many fairy tales that are well known to a majority of American youths. Most children are familiar with the basic structure of the fairy tale. They will tell you that there is usually a problem, a villain, a hero and a lesson to be learned in the end. Using the familiar platform of a fairy tale is a great way for teachers to introduce multiculturalism to the classroom. Multicultural literature can positively shape awareness of different cultures. It is important for the teacher to make certain the literature chosen does not promote bias or stereotypes. In this reflection I will examine Lon Po Po A Red-Riding Hood Story From China by Ed Young. By comparing and contrasting the story of Lon Po Po with the version of Little Red Riding Hood most familiar to them children will learn about some of the similarities and differences among American and Chinese culture.
...ghout the whole book. These kids are the perfect instrument for getting her message across and demonstrate to the reader that if they can look past the skin color then adults can too and maybe they will see the similarities between whites and blacks. This book has been one of my favorites of my high school career because of the likeable characters and powerful message.
To begin, there is a boy named Davjohn who lives with his mother in their home at the dump of New Mexico. His mother Alice is African-American that’s mixed with Mexican. Her eyes are hazel green and when they hits the sun they look like a honey color. She has curly kinky hair. His father which is died, was full Mexican with light brown eyes. Now for Davjohn he has caramel skin and eyes that are hazel brown, green eyes that change more light brown when it’s sunny out. He’s thin and short. While his mother is ill he searches for more metal scraps to finish their house before the winter comes and it starts snowing.
... It is interesting that we glean this information from the child, rather than the mother’s perspective, emphasising his misery. Sitting on the bench with Smudge, Charles turns away from the clouds within his sight, and the picture of two bicycles crossing, which look like a man and a woman pulling a tandem in opposite directions (Browne, 1998, p.16), symbolising his parents’ marriage. In conclusion, these two works support Moebius’s assertion that the ‘best picturebooks can and do portray the intangible and invisible [.], ideas that escape easy definition in pictures or words’. In The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Potter contrasts a didactic text with conflicting illustrations.
Children literature is a term that refers to the texts written for children. The artist uses creative ways to ensure that children are provided with educational books, touching on a variety of themes. This paper will include comparison of two characters from the two texts, “Hana's Suitcase: A True Story,” authored by Karen Levine and “Charlotte’s Web,” written by E.B. White, with the aim of understanding ways in which problems are solvable as indicated by selected characters.
Smith states several reasons and concerns as to why there is a problem with the lack of multiculturalism in children’s and young adult literature including the potential for stereotyping and the lack of interest from multicultural authors and illustrators. She also states several possible solutions as to how these situations can be deterred, on the librarians and educator front, from occurring and effecting children. Also, Smith gives examples of how it would be possible to bring more interest from multicultural authors/illustrators to this field of literature.
What kid hasn’t heard of Dr. Seuss? From “One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish” to “A person’s a person, no matter how small” to “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere”, Dr. Seuss has filled the lives of children with whimsical stories and ideas. (8) Using casual dialect and everyday objects, he was able to spark the imagination of others. All the while, he instilled lessons into his writings. It is not a surprise that Dr. Seuss received an award for a “Lifetime of Contribution to Children’s Literature”. His work will be read and enjoyed for decades to come. All in all, no matter which Dr. Seuss story that the reader might select, his or her imagination will be sparked, and the reader will surely be entertained.
Penny and Her Marble is an early reader chapter book that will captivate the young reader. As Penny goes through an emotional roller coaster of joy and guilt in the text, the soft pastel watercolor illustrations follow her emotions on every page. This inner battle of right versus wrong will resonate with the preschool and primary aged reader. They will emphasize with her as she decides what to do and rejoice with her as she is rewarded for her honesty at the end. The watercolor illustrations by Kevin Henkes imitate the text on each page by showing sneaky eyes as she hides the marble, and red colored cheeks as she confronts her neighbor. The short sentences and pictures that predict the text make this a book that early readers transitioning into chapter books will love.