Fiction Evaluation Form

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

Your Name Renata Couyette Book Title the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Author: Eric Carl Illustrator: Eric Carl

Genre: Picture book Publisher/Year: World Publishing Company June 1969

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: ate, nibbled, chewed, bit, food, hungry, through, big, fat, little, pushed,
Sentence length: 1-2 sentences to a page
Dialogue: Informative
Rhythm: repetition
Rhyme: Rhythmic
Insights/interesting Information cycle of a butterfly, Days of the week,

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: The Caterpillar

Personality traits: He greedy
How reader can relate to main character: When you over eat you can get a stomach ache.
Supporting characters: no

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

Life of caterpillar started as an egg then became a caterpillar then transition to a cocoon and
transformed into a butterfly.

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

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

Setting: At night in the light of the moon an egg on a leaf.

Theme: Informative information in a child’s way of how a caterpillar turns into a Butterfly life Cycle.
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)?
Realism

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 the text showed the caterpillar growing and development stages. What the
Illustrations show that the text does not was in the beginning it did not show the picture of the
caterpillar popping out of the egg, but the text said the caterpillar popped out the egg.

Page design --Describe:

The Borders
Use of white/dark space: White
Text placemen: Bottom or top of the book
Font size: Bold/Small
Placement of illustrations: Big and almost 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___ Sensory Motor Stage and the age Birth to 2 years old

Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage:

Children like to taste learn to explore sit, crawling, walking, running
Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage:
The caterpillar is exploring and eating everything he finds while going through his own stage of
development,

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Name the stage __Autonomy vs Doubt and the age__2 years

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage:

Children began to be independent make choices on what they eat
Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage:
The Caterpillar is being independent exploring and eating

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: