Reader’s Annotation: The clever crow takes what he wants! But Emma is more clever than the crow. See how she out-smarts him.
Author: Cynthia DeFelice
Illustrator: S.D. Schindler
Age: 3 and up
genre/subject: children's fiction, picture book
Plot Summary: A clever crow lives to steal things from Emma and her mother. One day the crow swipes her mothers car keys right off the kitchen table. Emma thinks hard and runs to get something to trade. Her trade is a success and crow surrenders the car keys for a shinny ball of foil! As Emma and her mother drive away, crow swoops in to steal something new!
Evaluation: I did not care for the fragmented sentence structure. I think it is meant to be poetic, but it is mostly a distraction to me, as a reader, and possibly introduces poor grammar to young readers.
Significance & Bibliographic Usefulness: There is repetition of bird calls. "maw, maw, maw." Also young readers may enjoy the meter. Each page ends with a word repeated three times.
Readalikes:
Awards/Lists: n/a
Links to reviews in professional review sources:
Hook: "We haven't heard the last of crow!"
Ideas, Uses: Bird discussions. Why would a crow like to take things and store them in his nest? Possible science education.
ISBN: 978-0689806711
Page Count: 32
Format: hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum
No comments:
Post a Comment