Fiction Evaluation Form

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

Your Name Renata Couyette Book Title How to catch a Leprechaun

Author:Adam Wallace Illustrator: Andy Elkerton

Genre: Fiction Publisher/Source Books Year:2016

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: Snap, Smelly, Glitter, Green, Jig

Sentence length: one to two sentences.
Dialogue: Leprechaun talking to the reader.
Rhythm: catchy
Rhyme: Yes, it rhymes
Insights/interesting information The Leprechaun comes to house to cause chaos but will clean your shoes as a
favor.

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: Leprechaun

Personality traits: Sneaky, Fast
How reader can relate to main character: Children always touching things and making messes.
Supporting characters: Children

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

Children have been planning all year long to make a trap to catch a Leprechaun.

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

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

Setting: At night in the dark streets in a neighborhood

Theme: The leprechaun says “better luck next year “gives children an opportunity to not give up
and create a better trap to catch him.
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)?
Impressionism.

Illustration and Text: explain how illustration and text combined to tell the story.
Then, explain what illustrations show that text does not explain? Illustration and text shows that the leprechaun goes
from house to house causing chaos. What the Illustration show the leprechaun hiding but it says “ I dance a jig and still
escape.”

Page design --Describe:

The Borders Dark
Use of white/dark space: dark
Text placemen: Sides and bottom of the pages.
Font size: Medium
Placement of illustrations: Covers Pages

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____Birth of Primitive Reason and the age__4 years old

Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage:

We want to know everything
Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage:

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Name the stage _Initiative vs Guilt and the age__________3-5___________

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage: Interact with peers learn to play and curious.

Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage:
The children were curious to how to trap a leprechaun.

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age __Trial and Error
Explain ONE emotional development trait for this age:
Children experimenting and trying to identify the course of action.
Give examples from the book to illustrate that emotional development trait and this age:
Each child created a different trap to see if they could catch the leprechaun.