A Book or Two: Children's Literature Reviews

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10/22/14

Princess and the Pea

Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen/illustration: Janet Stevens
PUBLISHER: Scholastic PUBLICATION DATE: 1982
AWARDS: ***Booklist Critic's Choice, International Reading Association Children's Choice*GENRE: Fiction READING LEVEL: Grade 2 BRIEF OVERVIEW: A lion prince travels with his mother to find him a wife to make princess with no success. One night a young lady showed at their home and asked for a place to sleep for the night out of the rain. The mother placed a single to test if she was fit for royalty. She passed the test, married the prince and was named princess.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Grade 3
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Shaneiga Prise Valdosta State University, ECSE
LABELS:** princess, Animals, Fiction, peas, Folktale,

10/21/14

The Turnip

TITLE: The Turnip

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Pierr Morgan

PUBLISHER: Puffin PUBLICATION DATE: 1938

GENRE: Russian Folktale READING LEVEL: 5-8

BRIEF OVERVIEW: The farmer, Dedoushka, grows a turnip, and the turnip grow so large that he requires help from his wife, granddaughter, dog, cat, and mouse to get it out.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: We can share our favorite vegetables and have a vegetable tasting party.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Emily Lewis, Valdosta State University ECSE

LABELS: folktale, food, farm

10/19/14

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

TITLE: The Legend of the Bluebonnet

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Tomie DePaola

PUBLISHER: Penguin Group USA PUBLICATION DATE: March 1983

GENRE: Folktale READING LEVEL: Grade 3

BRIEF OVERVIEW: This tale is about how the blue flowers in Texas came to be. It started with a drought in a village. They found out they had to sacrifice something for rain, so a girl gave up her most prized item, a doll with blue feathers. After is burned, the hill was filled with blue flowers and the rain came.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: For this book, students will pick out the components of the story (i.e. Main idea, details, setting). They will record this on a reading web worksheet.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Schuyler Kenzel, Valdosta State University ECED)

LABELS: (Folktale, foreign, children, bravery)

The Monkey's Whiskers

TITLE: The Monkey’s Whiskers

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Anne Rockwell

PUBLISHER: Parents’ Magazine Press PUBLICATION DATE: 1971

GENRE: Folktale READING LEVEL: Grade 4

BRIEF OVERVIEW: A mischievous monkey demands a barber to shave his whiskers off. He soon wants them back and causes a stir up in the town.

INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: I will give students new spelling words and power words, and they will be from this book. I will read this to them, and they will write it on their sheet when they hear it. I will check their spelling afterward.

REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: (Schuyler Kenzel, Valdosta State University ECED)

LABELS: (Folktale, Foreign, Children)