Tuesday
Publisher: Sandpiper, 1997
Children's Picture Book (32 pages)
Readability Lexile: Ages 4-8
Summary: This book takes place on a "Tuesday," and some very interesting events take place from the time of Tuesday Evening (around eight) to the following morning. The pictures are fanatastic and depict a story of frogs flying around on lilly pads. It then gives a hint on the last page of pigs taking a similar adventure the following Tuesday night at 7:58pm. I believe the younger elementary and pre-school ages would love this book and it would be a great tool in teaching predicting and storytelling.
Evaluation: In my opinion this is a great story. It is not something that would happen in real every day life but it plays on students already amazing imaginations and would help, as mentioned above, in teaching how to tell a story with a clear beginning, middle and end. It even previews to the next possible story. The groups of frogs were displayed mainly as a group and even as one strayed to get chased by a dog the group of frogs came and on the next page it showed the opposite; all the frogs chasing the dog. Although it is not a factual book this is an amazing fiction book with beautiful illustrations.
Literary Elements:
Personification- the frogs appeared human in their facial expressions and reactions to certain events
Foreshadowing- there was some foreshadowing such as the frog who was getting chased by the dog and then the group of frogs came to chase the dog but it also had an element of surprise
"Watercolors (of the illustrations) allow the artist to create illustrations that appear to vary from transparent to heavy" (Through the Eyes of a Child, Chapter 4: Understanding Artists and Their Illustrations, pg 139)
*This story was mainly intended to have the reader tell a story and not so much to teach about appropriate text or morale values.
Lesson: I would use this story if trying to teach early elementary students how to make appopriate sentences for pictures or the other way around. I would have them write one sentence for one page out of the book that they most enjoyed that they believed would be appropriate for the illustrations. I would also have them create an illustration of what they believe would be a good last page for the book or a good first page for the next book in this series.
That is a great idea to have the students sentences for the pictures. David Weisner's books are drawn so wonderfully with such imagination. It would be interesting to see how many ways the children would interpret what was happening in the story.
ReplyDeleteShannon I agree, I think that Bridget's idea to have the kids write a sentence for the pages is great. It would be so neat and funny to see what they would come up with! I have to agree with you both that the illustrations in this book are fabulous. It was by far one of my favorite books that I blogged about! :-)
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