Picture Book File

Claudia Govea
ECE 260-1001
October 1, 2016
Picture Book File
Title: Where the Wild Things Are
Author: Maurice Sendak
Publisher: Harper & Row
Summary: Max is a child that feels misunderstood so he ends up
misbehaving. His mother calls him a ‘wild thing’ because he is always up to
no good. One night he misbehaves and his mother sends him to his room
without supper. Soon Max realizes his room becomes a jungle. A jungle
where he meets majestic and fierce creatures that let him be their king. He
promises to create a place where everyone is going to me happy. He then
realizes that been king is not something happy when there something
missing.
Evaluation 1
Plot:
1. Believability (absence of coincidence, sentimentality, etc) 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment : I rated an 8 because the story is believable for the child
but the child will not start to believe until the book reaches to the part
where Max meets the creatures.
2.Major Dramatic Question (Clear early in book) YES YES(but slow
emerging) NO
● Comment: The question slowly emerges because it does not appear
until Max learns that being a wild thing and having a kingdom is not
fun if you can not share it with the people you love
3.Other considerations (satisfactory conclusion, tension, clear
conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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4.Style and language (precise vocabulary, figurative language,
dialogue, cadence, understatement, unexpected insights, line in sand,
etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: The story is paced in a way where it gives you suspense
in what Max is going to do with the creatures. Will Max ever go back
home to his family.
6.Character (dynamic protagonist, characters “ring true” [including
cultural considerations], etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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7.Setting (detail, texture) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: As you read this story it describes in detail how Max’s
room starts to transform into a magical forest. It gives so much detail
in how the creatures look and describes them as majestic and
somewhat fierce.
8.Theme (absence of overt didacticism?) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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9.Other considerations (mood, tone, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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10.Is it a well-rounded piece? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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11.OVERALL RATING (10 high; 1 low) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: In overall goal it is book that would be much
recommended because the book teaches a lesson. It makes the child
wonder what consequences will happen if they misbehave.
Author: Laura Numeroff
Title:If you give a mouse a cookie
Publisher: Harper & Row
Summary: A boy starts by giving a mouse a cookies. The mouse than ask
for a glass of milk to go with the cookie. He does not want a mustache so
he asks the boy for a mirror. He then wants some scissors to cut and trim is
mustache. He then wants a broom to sweep his hairs. He then gets thirsty
and wants a glass of milk. To go with his glass of milk he wants a cookie.
Evaluation 2
Plot:
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment : Children might wonder since when do my parents allow
us to give mouse cookies. It is hard to believe in this generation that
kids will think a mouse can talk.
emerging) NO
● Comment: It slowly emerges mostly at the end where it might ask is
the same cycle going to repeat if the child gives the mouse another
cookie.
conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: It leaves the reader thinking if the mouse is going to
repeat the same cycle or what is he going to ask for next.
etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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● Comment: The boy seems realistic to the story but the mouse seems
like a character that will not fit in a real world. Mouses do not speak
so it makes it seem like it will not ring to be true.
● Comment: The setting really not describe as much throughout the
whole story. When I read this book it makes me think where is the
boy and mouse?
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Author: Bill Martin Jr.
Title: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Summary: The book itself does not have a lot of a plot. The story consists
that the narrator ask different animals what they see. Each animal
responds back saying that they see a different animal. The narrator through
the story keeps asking what they see.
Evaluation 3
Plot:
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment :
emerging) NO
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conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: The book consists with a lot of rhyme. The book rhymes
as they describe each animal. It uses a lot of questions which keeps
the children in suspends to know what the animal sees.
5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: As you read this book the pace of the book is possible to
involve the children into the reading. The children are able to answer
as you ask them what they think.
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● Comment: The animals describe with colors the next animal. The
vivid colors in the book and the animals makes the book interesting to
read especially for the children.
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● Comment: The book in overall is a great book for the children. The
book provides a way for the children to learn the animals and the
colors. It is a way for children to learn the colors as they each animal
describes each children. The children also learn animals as they read
the book. This type of book i would i include in a lesson plan to help
children learn the colors and the animals.
Author: Bill Martin Jr, John Archambault
Title: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Summary: The 26 lower-case letters climb up a coconut tree in
alphabetical order, until the tree bends so much that is causes them to all
fall down. The uppercase letters come to help them climb back up. It
describes each injury as the letters go up again.
Evaluation 4
Plot:
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment :
emerging) NO
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conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: The vocabulary in the book is vocabulary that kids at the
young age learn. Most of the vocabulary is consists of them learning
the alphabet.
5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: The pacing in book is to a beat of the song. The book
comes included with a CD that helps the children to sing along to the
song as they read the book.
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● Comment: Yes it gives a clear image where the book is taking place
because it is saying the letters as they climb up the tree.
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● Comment: The books is fun learning experience book. The book
makes reading fun and exciting.
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● Comment: In overall rating I give this book a 10 because the book is
a fun and exciting way for children to learn the alphabet. When i was
young children the teacher will always use this book to make us learn
the alphabet.
Author: Jules Feiffer
Title: Bark George
Publisher: Harper Collins
Summary: The book talks about how a dog cannot learn to bark. He goes
through a lot of sounds from mooing, oink, and other animal noises.
George struggles until one day he learns to bark.
Evaluation 5
Plot:
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment :
emerging) NO
● Comment: The main question throughout the book is if george will
ever learn to bark. The dramatic question follows you throughout the
whole book in hope for george to learn to bark.
conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: The dialogue they use to make it seem that a dog is able
to make other animal noises then bark. That type of dialogue makes
the kids laugh as they think is funny how the dog makes funny noises
but cannot bark.
5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: The pacing for the book is good. The book gives you a
gap in order to ask the children if they think George will ever bark. It
also helps you keep the children engage in the reading and it involves
them more as you guys read in a group.
● Comment: The book has a realistic character. The book evolves
around the dog. The dog is not a make up character and you can
actually see dogs in real life.
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● Comment: The book is a well rounded piece. The book has way to
make the reader engage because throughout the whole story the
reader is thinking if in general George is going to learn to bark. The
book is a book that is well understood for kids.
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Author: Toni Morrison
Title: The Bluest Eyes
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Summary: The story of a young girl named Pecola that lives in the century
of The Great Depression. The young girl lives in a society where looks is
what makes someone beautiful. The young girl has a really bad child hood.
She grows up with an alcoholic father that hits her. The girl lives in a
society that does not accept her because of her skin color. The girl gets her
treated bad she is called harmful words and is ashamed of who she is as a
human being. The story gets tragic when the young girl gets raped and
gets pregnant. Her baby dies because the baby is born premature. At the
end of the story the young girls suffers and becomes out of her mind
because now she thinks she is beautiful because society becomes to
accept her.
Evaluation 6
Plot:
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment : This book has a lot of sentimentality in the book. They
way the girl is treated by society and is not accepted. The book
provides a lot of scene that sound harmful.
emerging) NO
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conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: The language in the books has a lot of dialogue that is
hard to explain. The words can describe the way the author describes
the young girl. The way the other characters describe the young girl
Pecola. There is vulgar words in the book that are not bad.
5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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● Comment: The main character is a character that can really relate to
many of the people in society. The character struggles with the
acceptance of the society. She seeks just for her to be accepted and
wanted. Society today expects so much when it comes to beauty and
looks to make someone beautiful. This book provides a character that
in real life a lot of young girls struggle with acceptance of society.
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● Comment: This book teaches a life lesson to the world. It shows how
hard for someone to be themselves to society.
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● Comment: In overall rating I give this book a 10 because it was a
book that i read in high school. When i read the book it gave me a life
lesson in how harsh sometimes society can be. It also teaches you
that when you treat someone one way we never know how hard they
had life before. The book is a great book that will be great lesson plan
for a class. I highly recommend this book to anyone. The book keeps
the reader wanting to read more and more.
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Title: Speak
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Summary:The summer before her freshman year of high school, Melinda
Sordino meets Andy Evans at a senior party. Outside the woods, Andy
rapes her. Melinda calls 9-1-1, but does not know what to say and runs
home. The police came and broke up the party, and some people got
arrested. Melinda does not tell anyone what happened to her, and nobody
asks. She starts high school at Merryweather High School as an outcast
since all her old friends left her, and is shunned by her peers for calling the
police. She remains silent and sinks into depression. Melinda is befriended
by Heather, a new girl, who clings to Melinda only to ditch her for "the
Martha's", who are the "popular" girls at Merryweather High. As Melinda's
depression deepens, she begins to skip school, withdrawing from her
already distant parents and other authority figures, who see her silence as
means of getting "attention". She slowly befriends her lab partner, David
Petrakis, who encourages her to speak up for herself.
Near the end of the book, Melinda's ex-best friend Rachel, who was dating
Andy, breaks up with him on prom night after Melinda confesses to her
what happened. Realizing only one other person could've told Rachel,
Andy attacks her in the abandoned janitor's closet, Melinda's "sanctuary".
Melinda fought back against Andy and was able to get help without
anything going wrong and spoke out. When word spreads about what
happened and the truth about that night is revealed, the students no longer
treat Melinda as an outcast but as a sort of hero instead. And finally,
Melinda tells her story to her art teacher, Mr. Freeman, and the truth finally
sets her free.
Evaluation 7
Plot:
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment : This books brings out emotions. At the beginning of the
book the reader is confused on what is going on with Melinda.
Melinda seems to hide the emotion in what happened that night of the
party. She seeks to build her own world and does not to talk on what
happened that night of the party. As the story goes Melinda shows
how scared and afraid she is and then learns to speak and stand for
herself.
emerging) NO
● Comment:
conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: Throughout the whole book there is a lot of tension. The
whole schools hates her for calling the cops on the party. Melinda is
afraid to face her worst fear. She has conflicts and loses friends and
also comes into an encounter with the boy that rapes her.
etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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● Comment: The setting takes place in a high school.
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● Comment: The book provides scenes in which they want to make
you cry and feel hurt. The way in how she describes her fear in
having to deal with the situation on being rape.
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● Comment: When I read this book it got me hooked on since the start.
In the start i was a little confused in what was going on but as the
story went on i came to realization in how real it is to society.
Author: Dr. Seuss
Title: The Cat in the Hat
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Summary:The story begins as a girl named Sally and her unnamed
brother, who serves as the narrator of the book, sit alone in their house on
a cold, rainy day, staring wistfully out the window. Then they hear a loud
bump which is quickly followed by the arrival of the Cat in the Hat, a tall
anthropomorphic cat in a red and white striped hat and a red bow tie. The
Cat proposes to entertain the children with some tricks that he knows. The
children's pet fish refuses, insisting that the Cat leave. The Cat responds by
balancing the fish on the tip of his umbrella. The game quickly becomes
more complicated, as the Cat balances himself on a ball and tries to
balance lots of household items on his limbs until he falls on his head,
dropping everything he was holding. The fish admonishes him again, but
the Cat in the Hat just proposes another game.
The Cat brings in a big red box from outside, from which he releases two
identical creatures with blue hair and red suits called Thing One and Thing
Two. The Things cause more trouble, such as flying kites in the house,
knocking pictures off the wall and picking up the children's mother's new
polka-dotted gown. All this comes to an end when the fish spots the
children's mother out the window. In response, Sally's brother catches the
Things in a net, and the Cat, apparently ashamed, stores them back in the
big red box. He takes it out the front door as the fish and the children
survey the mess he has made. But the Cat soon returns, riding a machine
that picks everything up and cleans the house, delighting the fish and the
children. The Cat leaves just before their mother arrives, and the fish and
the children are back where they started at the beginning of the story. As
she steps in, the mother asks the children what they did while she was out,
but the children are hesitant and do not answer. The story ends with the
question, "What would you do if your mother asked you?"
Evaluation 8
Plot:
6 7 8 9 10
● Comment :
emerging) NO
● Comment: The question seems to appear at the end of the book
leaving the reader think. “What would you do if your mother was not
not home?” leaving the reader thinking at the end of the book is a
great way for the reader to keep wanting to come back for more.
conflict, etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: Some children books to provide tension in their story. For
instance in this story the cat causes a lot of story. The tension starts
to build up when the children realize that their mother will be home
and the house looks like a mess.
etc) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
● Comment: Adding rhyme to most of the stories make the story sound
more fun. It makes the kids read along with you because they like to
interact and also get involved.
5.Pacing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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● Comment: The cat shows a great example in how there is fun to
anything you send your goals and dreams too.
● Comment: The detail in the book is spectacular because it shows
how detail the cat is making a mess and the way the children react to
the mess.
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