Fiction Evaluation Form

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

Your Name: Ines Solano Book Title: Papa, please get the moon for me
Author: Eric Carle Illustrator: Eric Carle

Genre: Picture/Fiction Publisher/Year: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1986

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: Descriptive, “Long” “High”

Sentence length: A sentence per page, about 10 word sentences
Dialogue: Some, between Monica and Papa and Papa and the moon. “please get the moon for me”
Rhythm: Lots of repetition
Rhyme: N/A
Insights/interesting information

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 character: Monica and her Papa

Personality traits: She’s curious. He is helpful and inventive.
How reader can relate to main character: We all sometimes need help to get things we need or want.
Supporting characters: The Moon

1. PLOT: (Explains the major events in the story.) Summarize the plot

Monica asks her Papa to get her the moon to play with. He gets a long ladder but the moon is too big
to grab. He waits until the moon is small then goes back up to get it. Monica plays with the tiny moon
until it disappears. One night the moon reappeared in the sky and grew back to a full moon.

2. SETTING – Explain the place and time of the book.

THEME- What is the story’s theme or lesson?

Setting: Monica’s home and space

Theme: Sometimes we may need to ask for help and be patient.
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)?

Illustration and Text: explain how illustration and text combined to tell the story.
Then, explain what illustrations show that text does not explain?
The illustrations show the size as described by the words. It adds more to the setting and we get more
context to what the characters are doing at certain points.

Page design --Describe:

The Borders: N/A
Use of white/dark space: White space at the bottom for text
Text placemen: Text at the bottom of the page
Font size: 14pt
Placement of illustrations: Almost whole page
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__Preoperational____________________ and the age__2-7_________________

Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage:

Fantasy and imaginative play
Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage:
SW imagine what it is to hold the moon in their hands and play with it.

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Name the stage _Initiative VS Guilt________________ and the age_3-5___________________

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage:

Child learn to do, to plan, to work at a task
Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage:
They will follow as the characters work to get the moon.

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age __________________________________
Explain ONE emotional development trait for this age:

Give examples from the book to illustrate that emotional development trait and this age: