Nov 8-12

The book I have chosen to analyze is Coyote by Gerald Mcdermott. I would classify it as a Pourqoi and it has a little bit of a trickster element to it. I really enjoyed the illustrations of this book! It was one of the main reasons I picked it up in the first place. It was a very enjoyable story full of interesting things. I didn't know it was a pourqoi until the end and I loved that surprise element. It had a good rythym to it as I was reading it, it was funny and it made me get involved mentally. I loved the main character, he was a mischevious coyote who wanted a lot of different things. He also went after a lot of those different wants and it got him into a world of trouble which i thought was really amusing. It was a clever story to explain why a coyote looks the way that it looks now. It is also a little bit of a trickster because, Coyote is always sticking his nose where he shouldn't, I think he met his match with the group of crows that try and help him fly. They are almost as bad as he is. The reason being, they were having fun with him at first and then when they got annoyed of him they decided to ditch him when they were flying. The crows kind of just left him for dead, all because he started to annoy them.

Childrens book review Oct. 4- Oct. 8

I read Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, which is a wonderful childrens book. I really love the story because it shows how nothing beats the love you get from home. The story was written well and it was simple and easy to read, which is something to look for in childrens literature. The illustrations matched what the story was saying and did a good job at telling the story and enhancing what the text was saying. I think that the style the illustrator chose for this book worked perfectly. You got the affect that the monsters were hairy and a little scary but not too scary by the way the lines were drawn. I think that it was good that the book talked about monsters but, they were not portrayed as scary monsters but monsters that he could be friends with. I think it would be a little challenging to write a story about monsters for little kids because, you have to be very careful not to terrify the target audience. Where the Wild Things Are did a good job at not being terrifying but, being very creative and imaginative about the monsters. I would read this book to any child because it is a story that takes some imagination and it full of imagination and that would teach children that having an imagination is okay. I think that what makes a good book is a good moral element, or life lesson and also illustrations that back up what the story is talking about. Where The Wild Things Are has these elements that I look for in a good book.