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Brief Annotation:

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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) :

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Zoom


Book Title: Zoom


Author(s): Istvan Banyai


Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Istvan Banyai


Publisher: Penguin Group


Copyright Date: 1995


Genre: Picture Book – wordless picture book


Brief Annotation:


Imagine a rooster. Zoom out to the toy doll looking at the rooster. Zoom out even more to the child looking at the toy doll looking at the rooster… This book has something beautiful to say about perspective and how different something might be if we just look a little bit closer.


Your Rating (1-5) and why:


5 – A great way to see something from its tiniest parts to the grand picture. Gives the reader a grasp on the subtleties and vastness of this world. You think you know where Banyai will zoom out to next, but you’re completely wrong.


Readers who will like this book:


A reader interested in graphic design and attention to detail. A reader intrigued by the world and relativity. A beginning reader that has yet to begin word reading. This book has an endless audience.


Teaching Strategy from Yopp & Yopp:


Fold up book p. 138

Have the students make their own zoom book. The book could be the student’s own interpretation or somehow tied into the current theme.


Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:


Have you ever seen something up close and couldn’t really tell what it was until you backed up a little bit?


1. Interest Level (age): 5-9


2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): N/A

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