Fiction Evaluation Form

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

Your Name: Daisy Martinez Book Title: With a little help from my friends
Author: John Lennon and Paul McCartney Illustrator: Henry Cole

Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher/Year: Simon & Schuster/2019

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: Short familiar language: “Do you need anybody?”

Sentence length: Short 5-10 words: “When my love is away?”
Dialogue: 3rd Person
Rhythm: Fast pace: sing a long book
Rhyme: No rhyming words
Insights/interesting information: Both girls remained friends

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: Both Girls

Personality traits: Excited, Thankful, and sad
How reader can relate to main character: People become sad when separated from loved ones
Supporting characters:

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

Best friends are separated when one moves away to a different state but remain friends to and see
each other

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

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

Setting: Outdoors, school and home

Theme: Friends being there for each other
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)?
Painterly media

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 connect by showing what friends do.
Illustration shows emotion and text does not interpret the emotion.

Page design --Describe:

The Borders: Full borders or separated bubbles
Use of white/dark space: Dark space
Text placement: Top, bottom and middle
Font size: Small
Placement of illustrations: Full 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 to 7 years old ___

Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage: Development of friendship: Children at this
age begin to always favorite one friend

Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage: Both girls spend
all time together playing, singing, drawing etc.

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Name the stage __________________________________ and the age_____________________

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage:

Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage:

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age: _______4-5 years old_________
Explain ONE emotional development trait for this age: Sadness: Showing expression when they are
hurt or sad.

Give examples from the book to illustrate that emotional development trait and this age: “What do
I do?” (Friend asking for help when she realizes she is moving away)