Hide-And-Seek Christmas

Hide-And-Seek Christmas

Written by: Finona Watt

Illustrated by: Lesley Danson

Designed by:Zoe Waring

Publishers: Usborne Publishing Ltd in 2007

Genre: Fiction/Holiday/Touch, Feel, and Flaps

Readability Lexile: ?

Summary:

This book is about what goes on in the North Pole for Christmas. The elves are making toys for the boys and girls, Santa is loading up his sleigh, the snowmen are playing with the animals, and then its Christmas day in someone living room where presents are under the tree. It is very interactive using questions to have children find a certain amount of things.

Evaluation:

This book can be controversial because it is about a Christian Holiday. Many students are not Christians so it might be difficult to have this in the classroom. I would say that this book can be a loud in the classroom as long as you have other religions holidays there too. This book is really good with getting the children involved and active with the book. It is a board book where you can feel the textures of the pictures and open flaps to find more text and pictures. It starts out asking a question to the reader if they can have a certain amount of something. The first questions asks the reader to find four things, the second asks for 3 things to be found, the third; two, and the fourth it asks to find one. This helps students learn numbers going backwards. When it asks questions it draws the reader in and makes them become involved. It is not only a fun book to read but it also teaches young students numbers.

Literary Elements:

-          Style- The style of the book is touch, feel, and flap book. It is an active book where the readers can touch the textures of the pictures and open flaps to see whats under.

-     Theme- Christams is the theme. It is about the make believe part that happens on Christmas Eve that many Christian children believe.

-     Setting- The setting of this story is in the winter time in the North Pole. You are able to tell what the setting is by whas going on and what the temperature looks like outside. It looks cold and snowy and that on ly happens in the winter.

Mini Lesson:

I would teach the students about the setting part about it being in the winter. I probably would not use this book to teach students unless I had other books to teach other religions also so it would be fair to all. If I were to teach this I would use it to teach about things that go on in the winter. I would have the students cut up paper and use it to make a picture of what things they do during the winter.

Illustrations:

The illustrations in this book are really good! They not only stimulate the senses by touch, but through the illustrations you are able to be interactive with the story. The illustrations show what is going on in the text.

Target Audience:

Young children to early elementary school