Fiction Evaluation Form

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

Your Name Renata Couyette Book Title a Big turnip

Author: Tatiana Zunshine Illustrator: Evgeny Antonenkov

Genre: Folklore Publisher/Year: 2003 pumpkin House

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: Big, small, planted, pull, together, turnip

Sentence length: one sentence long
Dialogue: The grandfather calling to the grandmother the grandmother calling the granddaughter calling dog
the dog calling cat and the cat calling the mouse.
Rhythm: repetitiveness, they all pulled and pulled but the turnip still wouldn’t come out.
Rhyme: melody
Insights/interesting information
Team work working together
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: Farmer

Personality traits: Determined, Hard worker
How reader can relate to main character:
Supporting characters: Grandmother, Granddaughter, dog, cat, mouse

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

Grandfather has trouble pulling the turnip from the ground in his yard it takes the whole family to
help pull the turnip, grandmother, granddaughter, dog, cat, mouse to remove it from the ground.

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

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

Setting: the backyard during the day

Theme:
Is to be able to relate to children’s understanding and needs and to teach how important teamwork
and unity is.

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)?
Water color 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 Illustration and text went with the story. It showed how each one called each other and they
all grabbing on to each to pull this turnip out of the ground.

Page design --Describe:

The Borders no boarders
Use of white/dark space: dark space
Text placemen:on top and in the middle.
Font size: medium bold
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_Formal Operational Stage_______________ and the age 12______________

Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage:

Makes assumptions on events and thinking.
Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage:
Farmer was not able to pull the turnip from the ground he realized he would not be able to do it
himself so he thought about working together to pull the turnip.

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Name the stage ____Industry vs inferiority_______ and the age_6-12_______________

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage:

Confidence in achieving goals
Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage:
The farmer had confidence that he would pull the turnip with the help of his family.
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: