Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Karla Carballo

Book Title: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Felicia Bond
Publisher/Year: Harper Collins / October 2015
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)
In this book they used a certain type of wording that catches the attention of the
children.

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 Mouse is the main character, the reader can be related to the character by
having sequences and go to the bathroom and look you face in the mirror and
realized that you need a new haircut. The supporting character is the boy.

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

This is a fiction book, where the mouse asks the boy for a cookie leading to a bunch
of other events to take place.
Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)
Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
The setting takes place in the boy’s house. The main message of this book is to not
give to others what they want because is can lead other things to happens.

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) Watercolors and acrylic media choice

Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations: (3)
Line: Diagonal lines swirling, rounded.
Shapes: Rounded shapes
Color: Hue is simply (red, green, white, blue and yellow)
Texture: Smooth and soft.
Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
all pages the same or different). (3 The illustration are more bright spaces white
similar in all the pages by lines and colors.

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 Stage and the age 2 to 7 years old.
Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
book to support your choice: Focused on what children could not yet do. Inductive
logic involves going from a specific experience to a general principle.

Erickson:
Name the stage Industry vs Inferiority and the age 6 to 11 years old.
Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
book to support your choice: Children need to cope with social and academic
demands. Success leads to a sense of competence.

Emotional Development: Social and Emotional Development

Identify the age: 6 to 11 years old
Explain the social development for this age and how the book relates
to the emotional level you chose: Children are able to respond with love,
understanding. Children are compassion, in this stage they are expressing themselves
and caring for others.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: 3

Why? Because is teaching a children to be kind, but at the same time are teaching
them how to help others in difficult time, If you give a Mouse a Cookie is teaching
them to have fun with their imagination.