Title: A Tower of Giraffes
Author: Anna Wright
Illustrator: Anna Wright
Publisher: Charlesbridge, 2015
ISBN: 978-1580897075
Summary: This book is a way of teaching children new vocabulary words through common animals they would know. It goes through a bunch of different animals, such as a drove of pigs and a tower of giraffes, and has a goal of teaching children these new words. It introduces young readers to some of the words we use to refer to animals in a group, and also tells a bit about the characteristics of each different group of animals.
Evaluation: I really like the idea of this book. It isn' just book about animals and the sounds they make, which is what we usually see for this age group. It teaches children a whole different aspect of animals, that being what we would call a group of a certain animal. It also teaches children about what these different animals do as a group. I think this is a neat book because it isn't the typical "dogs go woof" children's book that many are probably used to. The title text on each page is written in a font that could be hard for children to read; it's almost a cursive-like font. However, the text talking about each group of animals uses plain text, which I think is nice. The illustrations are very nice and colorful, and they are set away from the words.
Rating: I would give this book 5/5 stars.
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI have never read this book before but I like how you explained that there is more morals behind the book rather than just knowing about the animals. The readers are able to see much more, which is great!
I think your comment that the cursive print would be hard for little kids! It would be very confusing to use cursive font with little kids when they're still learning the alphabet!
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