Waddle!

Waddle!

Written and Illustrated by: Rufus Butler Seder

Designed by: Raquel Jaramillo

Published by: Workman Publishing Company, INC.

Genre: Nonfiction/Scanimation

Readability Lexile: ?

Summary:

This is a book about what kind of movements that different animals make to get around. It has the animal in the picture and then the verb is highlighted in a color saying what the animal is doing. It says all the movements that these animals do so they can get away from the alligator at the end of the book. The last two pages ask if you can move like the animals can. It teaches you about how animals move and what they look like. The pictures show how the animals move.

Evaluation:

This is high literature. It not only teaches children but also shows them how the animals in the book move. It also teaches kids about verbs. Each verb saying what action/movement the animal is doing is highlighted so it emphasizes it. It also uses motion as the illustrations. As you turn the pages of the book the animals move too just like it says in the text. You are able to visually witness the verb occurring. Students are able to learn about the animals as well as hoe they move and what it looks like for them to move. It also asks the children a question at the end of the text which is another way to be interactive with the text. It is very interesting and intriguing for children to read and look at.

  Literary Elements:

-          Style- The style of this book is scanimation. It is a very cool new literature for children to be interested in. When you turn the page you are able to see the picture move. In books you usually are never able to see movement so this is something really cool to have in the classroom.

-          Theme- The theme of this book is animals and verbs. On each page a different animal is doing a different kind of movement to get around and the verb is highlighted so it standsw out to its readers.

Mini Lesson:

For a mini lesson for this book I would do the theme. I would use this book to teach verbs. It is a very good book to teach verbs since the colored words in the book are only verbs. They stand out to the students so they are able to recognize what each verb is. I would give students a worksheet and they would have to fill in the verb for an animal or an action in a sentence already created for them.

Illustrations:

The illustrations in this book are scanimation. It is a way of using motion in books. It is really cool because the movement in the pictures to show what the text is trying to describe through a verb.

Target Audience:

Early elementary