Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Shade Evans

Book Title: Winnie The Pooh
Author: A.A Milne
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Illustrator: E. H Shephard
Publisher/Year: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd/1926
Evaluate the Book for the following elements
Style and Language: Using examples for the book, explain the following: Word
choices, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme and sentence length. Share unexpected insights or
interesting information the reader learns from this story. (5 points)
Throughout the stories it explains their action of Pooh and his friends, climbing trees
and how they feel. There is sort of a nice rhyming flow of the Pooh’s adventures. You
feel like you are there in the actual adventure. They are witty and fit well with
describing what is going on.
I am and will always be surprised of the creative words and names that they have for
certain characters like Woozles and hefalumps.

Character: With examples from the book, provide the following- (5 points)
Who is the main character?
How can the reader relate to the character?
Who are the supporting characters?
Christopher Robin, Pooh

The emotions he feels during his adventures help understand how to feel in any
situation. The book is very calming there are not exclamations or angry feelings. It
also allows for readers to feel inquisitive while reading the adventures Pooh goes on
with his friend

Piglet, Owl, Eeyore, Rabbit

Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)

There are various short stories in the book of what Pooh does with his friends and
Christopher Robin. It usually starts with curiosity and something tends to give them
complications like the whether or someone/something being lost and they work
through whatever challenges they face together as friends.

Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)

Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
The place of the book seems like it could be in a home.

The main message to me is to always follow through no matter how hard things may
seem, to look at the bright side of whatever may be going on.
Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2
points)
Realism because the illustrations looks like actual things you may see like

Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk):
(2 points)
Mostly just pen or pencil drawings just simple picture to show a small portion of what
is going on in the story.

Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations: (3)
Line: simple lines in all the drawings
Shapes: Not much different shapes
Color: In this particular book there are no color pictures
Texture: Very little maybe of the trees or the ground some small texture lines but
very minimal.

Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
all pages the same or different). (3)

The pages were all quite similar as far as illustrations. Plain white/ivory background
with a simple picture of the scene and the text from the story.
Child Development Theory: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social Emotional to
describe the connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)
Piaget:
Name the stage_______Preoperational_______ and the age__2-7_________

Though the book is fantasy it does include things that children can relate to such and
choosing things that may be hard to choose and getting in situations that need a little
help from friends is okay.
1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: ____3__________

Why?

I enjoy reading these short stories. I have always been a fan of Winnie The Pooh
because they make you smile with the witty words and fun adventures he goes on. I
feel it promotes great friendships and having a great time outdoors.
 Book Extension Activity
Your Name: Shade Evans

Book Title: Winnie The Pooh

Book Author: A.A Milne

Publisher: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd/1926

Date:7/5/2020

1. Pre-K/CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standard

1.pk.1 Identify the basic vocabulary of simple movement patterns (e.g., walk,
run, jump, hop, climb, etc.).

2. Objectives (What will children expect to learn?)

Basic vocabulary that coincide with gross motors skills while completing the
activity.

3. Materials and Equipment needed:

Gross motor movement mats that say and show
walk, run, jump, climb
Balance beam, hula hoops,
Jungle gym outside

4. Teaching (What will you do?)

After reading from the book Winnie the Pooh and one of the adventures he
went on the class will have an adventure of their own, with an outside
adventure to Owls house. Children can pretend to be a character from the
story book i.e Rabbit, Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Christopher Robin.
Walking through Christopher Robins house out the front door to the
Hundred Acre woods, Balancing on the beam through the hundred acer
woods, running from the Woozles, jumping on the hefalumps, hopping with
Tigger to Owls tree house, and finally climbing up the tree to Owl’s house.
 Allow children to go alone or with a friend if they may need some help
completing the adventure.

5. Closure:
Allowing children to venture outside for an exciting physical activity
can help them relate back to the events in the story but also taking the
activity outdoors for some fun learning.

Finish with talking to children about physical activity and adventures and how
doing things with friends can help you along the way.