Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Joselin Guillen

Book Title: Be kind
Author: Pat Zietlow Miller
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Jen hill
Publisher/Year: Feb 16, 2018 by roaring Brook Press
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 words that it is used in the book are so well used and very simple to understand.
This book can transmit the message of kindness and how you can help in the
community or others.
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 does not have a name but is the one who narrate the story.
The reader can relate to the character by watching the small acts of kindness that the
narrator does in the book.
The support characters are: Tanisha, Carla, Omar, Mr. Rinaldi, and the narrator
classmates.

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

The narrator saw Tanisha spill grape juice in her dress, and the Narrator is explaining
how she try to not laugh because her mother explain to her that she needs to be kind
to people even when things goes wrong. The narrator explain the different ways to
be kind

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

Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
There is different places in this book, such as the school, the park, and she even
trouble around the world. There is not an specific time.
The main message of this book is to be kind to 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)
Oil watercolors, acrylic, pencil
Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations: (3)
Line: table, pencil, narrator hair, trees
Shapes: circles, lines, squares, rectangles.
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)
Every page has different dissing, and it is very attractive to the eye of the reader
because of the colors of the pages, and because there is different images and
different things happen in every page.

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

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: 7-11
Explain the social development for this age and how the book relates
to the emotional level you chose:
Self-counscious emotions become part of inner standards for right actions.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: 3

Why?
I think that it is a good way to introduce kindness and different ways to spread it