Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Joselin Guillen

Book Title: I am Anne Frank
Author: Brand Meltzer
Genre: History
Illustrator: Christopher Eliopoulos
Publisher/Year: Dial Books, 2020
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)
The language that the book use telling the story of Anne Frank was sweet, I like that it
is not only telling the story, but they also include bubbles dialogue. I also like that
they include a little behind of others from the life of Anne Frank.

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?
The main character: Anne Frank
I believe that the reader can relate in the way of religion of that because people
believe in other things are in danger.
Supporting Character: father, sister, mother, and the other family that live with Anne
Frank

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

This book talks about the live of Anne Frank, how they get to live in the artic and how
the Nazis take everything that they have. And how their live change when they call
Margo. They try to scape to the U.S but they ask for more papers to be consider
immigrants.

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

Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
Places: Germany and Netherlands
Time: 1929- 1945
This book even though they tell Anne story but one of the main massages, they said
that we need to help each other, that we need to be the ones who does the right
things. Even though things will be hard, we need to look up and see the beauty of the
world and the people.

Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2
points)

Cartoon Art

Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk):
(2 points)
Acrylic
Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations: (3)
Line: bookcase, trees, boxes
Shapes: circles, triangles, squares
Color: bright
Texture: soft
Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
all pages the same or different). (3)

I like that the book is kind of comic book, so all the pages has different scenes, or all
the pages tell one scene.

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: Formal Operation and the age: 12 year onward
Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
book to support your choice:

Understand world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning.

Erickson:
Name the stage_____________________ and the age_______________________
Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
book to support your choice:

Emotional Development:
Identify the age: _________________________
Explain the social development for this age and how the book relates
to the emotional level you chose:

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: ______________

Why?