Where is Tippy Toes?

Where is Tippy Toes?

Author/Illustrator: Betsy Lewin

Publisher: Atheneum, 2010

Children's Fiction Picture Book (32 pages)

Readability Lexile: 4-8

Summary: This children's book is about a small orange cat who goes on an adventure and our curiosity with what our pets at home do while we are away.  This is a great book for ages 4-8 or Pre-K and K.

Evaluation:  This is a fiction book for early childhood education.  It is considered high quality literature because it contains prepositions which will help to reinforce language skills in preschool.  It also has an interesting plot that is not simple but not entirely complex.  It is somewhere in the middle.  It is also a picture book that would allow for children to talk about what they did yesterday and open discussion about pets and family and to engage them in a conversation about what they believe their pets do all day.  It has great illustrations and would be a wonderful starting point for using descriptive language.

Literary Elements:
Rhyming- "Where does Tippy Toes go?  In the soft grass so low."
Foreshadowing- the illustrations allow for predictions and some foreshadowing such as in the middle of the book when there are scaffolded pages where you can only see a tip of Tippy Toes tail.
Personification- Tippy Toes is doing places people would go around the house and outside and also has the facial expressions of a person in the illustrations.


Illustrations:  The words on the pages directly relate to the pictures in the book and showcase the main character of Tippy Toes (or a small piece of the cat) in every page and highlight her main action in the text.

Lesson: As mentioned before this would be very early elementary or even pre-primary.  I would use this to help teach rhyming words by making a word bank of the words that rhyme in the book and putting them up on the board or giving them to students to help hold up or pair together to reinforce the idea of rhyming.