Fiction Evaluation Form

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

Your Name Renata Couyette Book Title My Bed Enchanting ways to fall asleep
Author: Rebecca Bond Illustrator: Sally Mayor

Genre: Cultural Publisher/Year: Harper Collins Sept 8 2020

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: rocks, sways beneath. Aloft, woven, wool, river grass, fired clay, courtyard
Sentence length: The poem is a sentence Length the description is 1-2 sentences length.
Dialogue: about children around the world
Rhythm: steady
Rhyme: Rhyme
Insights/interesting information- Interesting facts is all about the way children go to bed around the world.

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: Children in the story

Personality traits: different cultural
How reader can relate to main character: They can relate to how they sleep and how other children around
the world sleep.
Supporting characters: Children

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

It’s a poem of how children around the world sleep and on the bottom of each page summarize the
country the child lives in.

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

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

Setting: Bedtime
Theme: Children around the world sleep in different beds in different places.
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)? surrealism

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 went with the story in showed the type of material or bed they slept on and
where they slept,
Page design --Describe: colorful the book is made from stitching, bed and dolls
The Borders white
Use of white/dark space: white and dark space.
Text placemen: Top and bottom of the page.
Font size: The poem text was bold and medium the description was small font size
Placement of illustrations: On both 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_Pre -Operational Stage and the age___2-7__________________

Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage:

Children love to experience something new and learn a lot
Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage:
Children are learning that around the world different cultures sleep on different beds and different
places, like the roof top , on rug, on hammocks
ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage _____Industry Vs Inferioty________ and the age____school-age___________

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage:

Have opportunities to develop skills and learn information.
Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage:
Children learn from different cultures how they sleep and where they sleep around the world.
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: