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Basic Documentation

Book Title:

Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

Your Rating (1-5) and why:

Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
Use book wizard to help with the previous 2 areas


3. List awards

4. Does this book have a book trailer? If so, cut and paste the web address here.

Monday, January 23, 2012

The Three Pigs

Book Title: The Three Pigs

Author(s): David Wiesner

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: David Wiesner

Publisher: Clarion Books

Copyright Date: 2001

Genre: Picturbook, Folktale, Fantasy

Brief Annotation: The story begins in the same way that the traditional folktale does but in this version the pigs are allowed to leave their folktale and travel into other fairytales and experience a new life. They meet new friends that they help and help them in their own story. The pigs in this story journey throughout different folktales and create a new story all on their own.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 5 – This book allows students to use their imagination. The traditional story of The Three Little Pigs is transformed into something completely different. The pigs are allowed to create their own destiny and other folktales are introduced. The illustrations and writing are done beautifully together in this book.

Readers who will like this book: Readers young and old who are looking for a new way of looking at a new way to look at a classic story. Readers who want to use their imagination and combine different stories into one new story.

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp: An interesting teaching strategy to use along with this book would be Quickwrites. The students could read the book and then reflect on what they read. How it makes them feel as the pigs journey through different stories. They could write about places they would like to go and see. They could discuss places they have been. This strategy has endless possibilities that they could write about in regards to this book. (Tompkins, pg. 91-93)

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: If you were allowed to go anywhere in the world, where would you want to go?

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): K – 2

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 2.8

3. List awards: 2002 Caldecott Medal

4. Does this book have a book trailer? No

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