1. Mother Goose by Mary Engelbreit is an example of a picture book. Majority of children’s books are illustrated but not all children’s books with illustrations are picture books. Mother Goose is considered a picture book because it tells a story through a series of pictures combined with relatively small amounts of text. Mother Goose takes readers through a series of rhymes accompanied by pictures that help deliver the story to young readers. The rhymes in this book are short and simple leaving the images up to the readers imaginations. This picture book uses seventeen different rhymes to take the readers a long a journey of some of the most popular nursery rhymes to date. Some of the rhymes have important implications for children later in life like the “piggie” rhyme shows children that they can not always get what they want in life and someone will always be better off than you are. 2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is an example of a picture book. The Very Hungry Caterpillar fits into …show more content…
the genre of picture books because it uses relative few words and many illustrations to convey the story across to children. The book teaches children how to count by taking them through five days of the week and adding an additional fruit each day helping children learn to count from one to five. The book also helps children learn the difference between fruits as well as helping them understand the process a caterpillar undergoes to become a butterfly. The book also helps parents tell children why it is important to eat a well-balanced diet, or they will end up with a tummy ache like the caterpillar did on the sixth day. The Very Hungry Caterpillar delivers many important messages for young children making it a very entertaining and informative picture book. 3. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister is another example of a picture book. The Rainbow Fish uses a mixture of illustrations and words to convey an important message to the readers. The story shows children how lonely life can be without sharing with others. When the rainbow fish was first asked by a friend for one of his shiny scales and the rainbow fish replied no he was left with no friends in the sea. None of the fish wanted to be friends with a fish that was greedy and didn’t share. After visiting the octopus who advised the fish that sharing would be the answer to his happiness the rainbow fish shared a shiny scale with all his friends making him the most popular fish in the sea. The story leaves a very important message for children that sharing with others is important for your own happiness. 4.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is also an example of a picture book. The Giving Tree uses a mixture of illustrations and text to convey the message to readers. The story shows children the importance of giving to others. The story is about a boy and an apple tree that gives everything it can the young boy. First the tree gives the boy all its apples, so it can sell them and buy things. Next the boy came back and wanted a house with a wife and children, but the tree could not offer a house, but it could offer its branches, so the boy could build a house. Then one day the boy came back wanting a boat and the tree would offer its stalk, so the boy could build a boat. The boy cut the tree to its stump and built a boat. Every time the tree gave something to the boy both the tree and the boy were happy. This picture books delivers an important message to children that sharing is an important virtue and those who do not share with others will most likely be
unhappy. 5. Apostles of Disunion by Charles Drew is an example of historical nonfiction. Apostles of Disunion gives readers a better understanding of why the South succeeded from the union. The book gives historical facts underlying the causes of each state that succeeded from the union. Apostles of Disunion attempts to give reasoning other than the abolition of slavery as the causes for why the states succeeded from the union. The South argued that the Civil War was a war over states’ rights and the union wanted to take away the growing prosperity of the deep south. Many people of the South saw the abolition of slavery as a strike against their constitution rights as the framers set up the constitution, as well as trying to take the power from the white people since the African severely outnumbered the white people. Though after reading the book it failed to give any reasoning other than the abolition of slavery. 6. Rudeness and Civility by John F. Kasson is an example of historical nonfiction. The book Rudeness & Civility illustrates the evolution of American etiquette, manners, and proper behavior for places such as the home, marketplace, theaters, and even the proper manners for a formal dinner. It is evident after reading the book that this was a difficult struggle that the American culture went through to achieve proper manners from all classes. The book starts in the seventeenth century and continues through to the early twentieth century when American people of all classes started to become more unified in their behaviors and manners. Books like Rudeness and Civility are important to show young adults that manners and etiquette have always been a learned behavior and we must continue to learn from our elders. It is important to have books like Rudeness and Civility to show young adults what things used to be like and why laws and rules are in place. 7. The Wars of Reconstruction by Douglas R. Egerton is an example of historical nonfiction. The Wars of Reconstruction illustrates the great deal of hardships that were presented to African Americans who gained the right to fight for the union army in the American Civil War. The book also outlines the hardships that African Americans and the United States as a whole experienced following the Civil War through Reconstruction. The book helps identify some of the primary issues and concerns of the American people as well as African Americans, while attempting to implement the new Civil Rights Act of 1866. It is evident after reading this novel, that a new war had arisen after the Civil War and it was one of politics. The book begins in early 1863 when African Americans gained the right to fight. It continues through the struggles of Reconstruction, and ends in the 1960s when African Americans finally started making head way on changing the peoples’ opinion of the Civil War through literature. 8. This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust is an example of historical nonfiction. The book This Republic of Suffering illustrates the great deal of hardship the American Civil War brought upon not only the soldiers fighting the battles along with the generals and political officials at the front of the war but also how the civilians were affected. The book shows how people of this time dealt with death and how the death of so many young soldiers would change their lives forever. It is evident after reading this book that the war brought many struggles that the American people were not prepared for since they had never been involved in a war with this many casualty. The book starts by going over what a good death is how soldiers prepare for death and continues through to how the people left living were affected by the deaths of the Civil War. This book is important to show readers that the transition after the abolition of slavery was anything but an easy task. It is important to remind people of how this country grew into the great nation it is today. 9. Cinderella by George Routledge & Sons is an example of a folktale. The book Cinderella is very much fictional like all folktales and it involves a story about a girl and her evil stepsisters. Cinderella was not liked by her stepmother and was told she was not allowed to attend the ball at the palace. Though with some help from a beggar with magical powers Cinderella makes it to the ball and the glass slipper fit her foot. The story has all the elements of a folktale with the magic involved and the good people are rewarded, and the evil/bad people are punished. Cinderella was rewarded for all the evil done upon her by having her foot be the one that fits in the glass slipper. The tale involves a myth-element of unfair cruelty with a victorious reward. This tale has been rewritten many times but still the main theme stays the same.
The book which I chose to share called Peter’s Chair written by Ezra Jack Keats. In the story, there is a boy named Peter whose parents just have a new born baby. Peter notices many things have changed around his house. His parents paint his old cradle, high chair and crib in pink and give them to his baby sister. Peter knows he needs to do something to prevent giving away of his favorite chair. Therefore, Peter decides to run always with all his favorite things and his dog, Willie. While Peter is being outsides, he sits on his chair and realizes that he is too big to the chair. He goes back home and tells his father that he would like to paint the chair in pink and give it to his little sister.
This shows how bold and captivating the unique appearance of the book was; it contained only an illustration and name, without the boasting of achievements. Imagery played a key role in
Martha Ostenso wrote this story in the 1920’s set in Manitoba. Back then abuse was not heard of. If neighbours felt, there was something not right they may talk about it maybe even feel empathy but would go about their own business. This book is about a tyrant of a husband and father who creates dysfunction in the family and reigns his family in a cold calculating way in which they fear him. His tactics for control stems from being a master manipulator, threatens to exploit secrets and spiritually degrades his family. He brings such dysfunction to his family for his own selfish reasons and greed.
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the ugly duckling is going through a hard time being called ugly and getting teased he decides to run away and find a new family. kids could take this literal and actually run away to see if they belong somewhere else. even though someone may think running away is the answer it is hard to find it in the book. they would really have to search to get this message out.
I agree with the statements above, because we have different types of learners when it comes to storybooks. Children, who have a hard time with reading, tend to shy away from books with just words. It helps the teacher when she can select a storybook with interesting pictures to go along with the words, because it will help to grab the child/children’s attention. In my experience in the classroom, I have found that picture books that are colorful, playful, and use rhyming words are the most fun when teaching young children. Showing the children the pictures while you read; helps to engage
Kiefer, Barbara. “Envisioning Experience: The Potential of Picture Books.” Publishing Research Quarterly 7.2 (1991): 63-75.
Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated “Green Eggs and Ham,” a book loved by all children as it conveys the message of not judging something by its appearance. The illustration style that Dr. Seuss uses pushes the plot of a story forward giving notice to action, color, and tension within a picture. In addition to telling us what we need to hear Dr. Seuss also shows us what we need to see. Every page of “Green Eggs and Ham” is beautifully exemplified with double spread illustrations that are used throughout the book. In this way, the words feel like a part of the world Seuss is building instead of being autonomous; like yin and yang, without one the other would seem incomplete.
Brooks was the first child of David and Keziah Brooks. She was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Brooks wrote her first poem when she was 13 years old and was published in the children’s. Moreover she was the first black author to win the Pulitzer prize. magazine. In 1938 she was married to Henry Blakely and had two children. After a long battle of cancer Brooks died in December 3, 2000.
... text beneficial for children due to its simple educational purposes. Last but not least, the characters are the “icing on the cake”, they make the text even more enjoyed by children and make everything more interesting. Through the good uses of literary elements such as style, theme and characters, A.A. Milne was able to make The House at Pooh Corner still a very popular and outstanding children’s text.
Plot Summary: With a turning of each page, author introduces various animals and people, and ask them what they see. Students first meet Brown Bear followed by Red Bird, Yellow Duck, Blue Horse, Green Frog, Purple Cat, Black Sheep, Goldfish, Teacher and Children. Each character sees another in a predictable pattern, which is repeated over and over until a student can join in with a teacher and easily predict the next lines. The creative rhyming finishes with the summary of all the characters that the “children” have seen.
This is a primary level rhyming book. The book goes through a list of animals, colors, etc. using all rhyming words. It includes bright pictures for the students to match the explanation being taken place.
Children books consist of short simple sentences, big illustrations, bright colors, and sometimes annoying sounds. This is what caught my attention as a toddler books aren't read to
The front cover is full of color to attract a child's interest to pick up the book.The title is in different and bright colors to make the title really pop. The font is curly and playful to add a childlike feel to the book. In the center of the book is a fairy that anyone is instantly drawn to, especially kids. The fairy is wearing bright clothes,
This allows the reader’s to see Mother Goose as a character almost coming out of each page. When Mother Goose appears the kittens behave and listen to her. Mother Goose is huge and tall that when she appears covers the whole page, and could see the text more in the opposite page. As described the book the style it written in thin line understanding the letter in Georgia 12 fonts, many pages has quotation to show expressions of the kittens taught. As continue with the story the picture fills the pages and embedded the sentence insides the pictures. At the beginning of the story the letter T is italic red to capture the reader attention. This reading could be children of preschool and like to read non-fiction book with bright colors like the color of the kittens are yellow, orange with green scarf around his neck, other kittens is black with light brown with baby blue bow on his head carrying pink bunny, the other kittens brown with black all three kittens seem like they are really happy and playful. This kittens are medium size and fluffy and well fed by their mother. The text is embedded in the reading so it could capture the children’s attention and could focus not only on the words, but in the picture, it could capture that every pages is bright and shows different color of the fall, and that leaves are falling on the ground. Their also a red bird playing with the kittens or seeing the kittens playing outside with the yellow yarn. They’re not enough space between words, but sentence could be read and understand. The book a medium size book that when children go to the library and read about non-fiction see bright color they will choose this book because many kids love cats. By reading this book of Jerry Pinkey gave me an opportunity of the scene is artwork enhances the text with so much more to bring out the story line. You can show a child