Fiction Evaluation Form

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

Your Name Daphne Rodriguez Book Title: Davy Crockett Saves the World
Author: Rosalyn Schanzer Illustrator: Rosalyn Schanzer

Genre: Modern Fantasy Publisher/Year: Harper Collins / 2001

EVALUATE THE BOOK USING THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS

STYLE and Language: Explain the language used – word choices, sentence length, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme.
Explain unexpected insights or interesting information the reader learns from the story. Give examples form the
book for each one:
Word choice: The word choice used was a little more advanced but there are some grammatical errors.
Sentence length: The sentence length is medium to long with some sentences being 10 – 40 words.
Dialogue: The dialogue is narrative.
Rhythm: N/A
Rhyme: N/A
Insights/interesting information: Davy Crockett was a real person
CHARACTER – 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? Give examples of each from
the book.
Main characters: Davy Crockett
Personality traits: strong, heroic, dependable
How reader can relate to main character: Davy Crockett does his best to help the President of the United States.
The reader can relate to Davy because some students love to help others.
Supporting characters: Sally Sugartree
1. PLOT: (Explains the major events in the story.) Summarize the plot
Davy Crockett is strong and helps the President of the United States stop Halley’s Comet that is
headed for Earth.
2. SETTING – Explain the place and time of the book.
THEME- What is the story’s theme or lesson?
Setting: The setting is in different parts of the United States
Theme: Heroism
ILLUSTRATION –Analyze the illustrations in the book (see Chapter 4 for details on the categories below.)
Choose a 2-page spread in the book to answer the following:
What Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)?
Cartoon Art
Illustration and Text: explain how illustration and text combined to tell the story.
Then, explain what illustrations show that text does not explain?
Page design --Describe:
The Borders: N/A
Use of white/dark space: The text is in the white space on the bottom of the page
Text placement: Left-Centered
Font size: Medium
Placement of illustrations: The illustrations take up most of the pages and help visualize what the text is
saying.

3. 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: Concrete Operational Stage and the age: 7-11
Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage: Children’s thinking becomes less about
themselves
Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage: Davy Crockett does
not hesitate to help the President even though he was trying to win over Sally
ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage: Intimacy v. Isolation and the age: 20-40

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage: Adults in this stage are ready to share their lives
with others
Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage: In the book,
Davy tries to learn how to dance to win over Sally because he thought she was “purty”

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age __________________________________
Explain ONE emotional development trait for this age: Children gain emotional understanding and the
capacity for empathetic and helping behavior from well-regulated emotional exchanges with peers.

Give examples from the book to illustrate that emotional development trait and this age: When pig
and elephant realized that whale was sad and lonely, they decided to cheer him up by befriending him
and playing whale ball.