Fiction Evaluation Form

(Picture Books, Folklore, Modern Fantasy, Contemporary Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Multicultural Books)

Your Name: Pamela Becerra Book Title: “The Rooster Who Would Not
Be Quiet!”
Author: Carmen Agra Deedy Illustrator: Eugene Yeltsin

Genre: Fiction/Multicultural Publisher/Year: January 31, 2017

EVALUATE THE BOOK USING THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS

STYLE and Language: Using examples from the book, explain the following: word choices,
dialogue, rhythm, rhyme and sentence length. Also, explain unexpected insights or interesting
information the reader learns from the story. Give examples.

“Dogs bayed, mothers crooned, engines hummed, fountains warbled, and everybody
sang in the shower.”

Some of these words are words that young readers have never seen before. Such as
bayed and crooned. There’s a lot of dialogue between the rooster and the new mayor.
The sentences are short and don’t have much rhyme or rhythm. The narration of the
story is mostly English but contains Spanish words or phrases and the translates.

CHARACTER – With examples from the book give the following: Who is the main character?
Explain the character’s personality traits.
How can the reader relate to the character, become involved in the story?
Who are the supporting characters?

The main character would be the rooster who doesn’t stop singing, along with
Don Pepe and the rest of the people in the village. The rooster is very stubborn
and loves to sing at anytime of the day. Don Pepe is very grumpy and doesn’t like
any noise or singing. The reader can relate to the rooster since he loves to sing
and be loud and cheery. The supporting characters are the villagers as well as the
other roosters. Don Pepe would be the bad character in this story.

1. PLOT: summarize the major events in the story-

There was a village called La Paz that was always singing and was always making noise. People
did not know what do about all the noise since it was hard to do things. So then the mayor got
fired, a new mayor came in that wanted silence all over the village. A rooster started to break
the rules and started to sing all the time. Don Pepe the new mayor, locked him up and tried to
make him stop singing. He sang so much it brought back the village’s passion to sing and make
music.
 2. SETTING – Explain the place and time of the book.
THEME- What is the story’s theme/message?

Setting: The time of the book exactly isn’t said. It probably takes place in the 1990’s in
a small village.
Theme: The theme of the book is about singing, dancing, making music and having fun
with the people around you.

ILLUSTRATION –Analyze the illustrations for the book you selected (see Chapter 4) with the
categories below:
Choose a 2-page spread in the book to answer the following:

What Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)?

The art is very cartoon like, it’s not realistic at all since animals do not talk. The body and face proportions are not
realistic in the slightest.

Media choices (paints, oils watercolors, pencil, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk) :
The art looks like it was done with water colors and pencils, some crayons or color
pencils were definitely used too. Some of the textures show the type of utensils used to
create that shade or shape.
Give examples and describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations:
Line: The lines are not sharp, they aren’t completely closed either.
Shapes: The shapes are very creative and not exact. They don’t follow rules to a closed shape and perfect
angles and straight lines.
Color: Colors are very bright and spread throughout the pages.
Texture: The texture is very distinct for everything. There’s different textures in backgrounds, characters,
their shading, etc.

Explain how illustration and text are combined to tell the story. What do illustrations show that text
does not explain?
They are combined together to show the characters and what they look like, what
they’re doing and what they show/do when there’s dialogue.
Page design: Summarize the following: placement of illustrations and text; the use of borders and white/dark
space; are both pages designed the same or differently?
The illustrations take up most of the book. The text is usually on the side of the book in
black text.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES – CHOOSE 2 of theories below and evaluate the book according to
the developmental theories. (How the book fits the developmental stage and age?)
PIAGET-COGNITIVE-INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage____Pre-Operational_________________________ and the
age____2-7_________________

Explain the cognitive development from the stage:

Children are starting to build up their vocabulary more, the book contains a lot of
dialogue between the characters.

Give examples from the book show how the book fits the cognitive stage:
“The noisy village of La Paz was silent as a tomb” The text describes the silence as
quiet as a tomb and children will be able to relate to how quiet it was during that part
of the book.

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Name the stage __Industry vs. Inferiority______ and the
age___5-13__________________

Explain the social development for this stage:

Children start to be involved In activities and doing things they enjoy. Characters in the
book are pursuing what they love to do such as singing.
Give examples from the book that support the social development of this stage:
“The plucky gallito shrugged, “I may sing a less cheerful song, but I will sing”

Emotional DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age __________________________________
Explain the emotional development for the age:

Using examples from the book, explain how the book fits the emotional development of
the age:

2. Overall Rating of the book (3 highest - 1 lowest) 1 (2) 3

Comments: (Support your overall rating)
It’s a predictable book that the children can enjoy especially if the teacher incorporates
music and singing as the book is read aloud.