Assignment #6

Love That Dog

Told completely in free verse and is geared toward the teacher or student who is teaching/learning poetry. Gives young boys the knowledge that poetry is not just a girl thing. Would have to recommend this book to students by saying that by the end of this book they will feel the heartwarming sense of accomplishment to a better understanding of poetry. Another novel by this author would be “Hate That Cat”, which is almost exactly like “Love That Dog”. However you can clearly see a more developed sense of poetry in this novel. Sharon Creech also wrote “The Unfinished Angel” and “Walk Two Moons” both written as novels very different from the authors’ style of “Love That Dog”. Both books written with much emotion and humorous text, is what make these scripts similar in writing style of Creech.

Creech, S. (2001). Love that dog. New York: HarperCollins.

 

Wonderstruck

This novel might appeal to the most active young reader, who is able to keep track of two stories at one time until they are ready to intertwine each other. I would attract my students to the challenge of being able to understand the complete novel. Since, one story is told through words and the other is told strictly through pictures. Explaining that the two stories can be very similar but over 50 years apart and coming from a young boys point of view in one story and a young girls point of view in the other story. Other books by this particular author are “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, “The Houdini Box” and “The Boy of a Thousand Faces”. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is somewhat similar in the sense that it is a complete novel told through words and pictures. “The Houdini Box” and “The Boy of a Thousand Faces” are both great reading material for both children and adults. However, “the Boy of  a Thousand Faces” is geared more towards a mystery, adventure, best read in the dark with a flashlight to add to the fear.

Selznick, B. (2011). Wonderstruck: A novel in words and pictures. New York: Scholastic.