Bibliography
Zelinksy Paul O. 1986. Rumpelstiltskin. By Paul O. Zelinsky. New York: NY. Puffin Books. ISBN 9780140558647
Plot Summary
In this variant of Rumpelstiltskin a poor miller tries to impress his king by claiming that his daughter can spin straw into gold, which is not true. The king sends for the miller’s daughter who is to spin straw into gold by the next morning or she will die. The girl begins to cry because she does not know how to turn straw into gold, in that instant a peculiar little man appears out of nowhere and offers to help her if she will give him something in return. She agrees to give him her necklace the first night, her ring the night and her first born child the third night he spins all the straw into gold. On the third day, the king is impressed at her abilities and marries her and they eventually have a child who Rumpelstiltskin comes to claim. Rumpelstiltskin gives the queen three days to find out what his name is and if she guesses correctly by the third day, she can keep her child. In the end the queen sends her servant to spy on Rumpelstiltskin. The servant overhears him chant his name and the queen gets to keep the baby while umpelstiltskin is never to return and the queen and king lived happily ever after.
Critical Analysis
In this variant of Rumpelstitskin it is easy to see the basic story elements of protagonist, problem, antagonist, climax, and resolution. The protagonist, the miller’s daughter, finds herself in a bit of trouble when she is asked the magical task of turning straw into gold, soon the antagonist, Rumpelstitskin is presented. He quickly offers a solution to the problem but not without a heavy price. At the climax of the story the antagonist returns for the queen’s first born unless his name is discovered. At the conclusion of the story, the problem is resolved when the queen’s servant discovers Rumpelstiltskin’s name and he disappears to never return again. Also, the significance of the number three is found throughout the story when the girl makes gold for three nights and then has three days to figure out Rumpelstiltskin’s name. This is typical in European stories where things usually occur in threes. (Vardell, p. 93)
It is easy to see why Zelinksy’s variant of Rumpelstiltskin was chosen for the Caldecott Honor. The illustrations have a painting like style that creates a memorizing background to the story such as in the royal wedding scene and the pages where the queen reveals Rumpelstiltskin’s name to him. The expressions in the characters and the detail to the castles walls and floors are flawless. The rich colors of the character’s medieval costumes and the piles of spools of gold thread shine and glistened as if they were real and in front of the reader. The illustrations give so much depth and detail that it will make readers want to reach out and touch every page in the book. The characters facial expressions are full of life for example when Rumpelstiltskin rejoices in the woods that no one knows his name. The illustrations are so full of life that they carry the story. I found myself turning pages without even reading the story. The Caldecott Honor Book was given to Paul O. Zenlinksy’s variant of Rumpelstitskin because it is truly a perfect example of a traditional tale in picture book form.
Review Excerpt(s)
*School Library Journal-“Zelinsky’s smooth retelling and glowing pictures cast the story in a new and beautiful light.”
*The Horn Book-“Truly a tour de force.”
*The New York Times Book Review-“Children love the story for its mystery and familiarity.”
Connections
*Other Caldecott Honor Books by Paul O. Zelinsky: Swamp Angel
* Compare and Contrast with other versions such as the Rumpelstiltskin story from West India were Lit'mahn spins thread into gold cloth for the king's new bride, Quashiba.
*Integrate with other subjects such as math with the version of the Multipliyng menace: the revenge of Rumpelstiltskin by Pam Calvert.
Vardell, Sylvia M. 2008. Children's Literature in Action. Libraries Unlimited. Paperback: ISBN 13: 9781591585572
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Bibliography
Trivizas, Eugene. 1993. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. By Helen Oxenbury. New York: NY: MacMillan. ISBN 0590486225
Plot Summary
In this version of the three little pigs the, the wolves are the ones having their houses destroyed by the big, bad pig. The first house built out of bricks was destroyed with a sledgehammer, the second house built out of concrete was destroyed with a pneumatic drill and the third house made out of barbed wire, iron bars, armor plates, heavy metal padlocks and Plexiglas was blown up with dynamite. Soon the three little wolves decided they must try something different so they built a house out of flowers. Soon the big, bad pig came to tear their house down, but the smell of flowers was so lovely that his heart grew tender and he decided to become a good pig. From then on the wolves played games with the pig, ate together and lived together happily ever after.
Critical Analysis
The text has the repeating situations and phrases from the traditional version of The Three Little Pigs. An example of this is when the three little wolves say “no, no, no. By the hair on our chinny-chin-chins.” And the big, bad pig says, “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!” Also, the characters are full of personality for they are either drinking tea, playing croquet in the garden or a game of shuttlecock and of course in the end build a house out of flowers. The ending of the story is quite ironic when the pig has a change of heart due to the strong aroma of the flowers and becomes friends with the three little wolves.
Helen Oxenbury's watercolor illustrations work well to create the various settings and transitions found in the story. The use of gray colors help to move the story from setting to setting from beginning to end, finishing with beautiful happy pastel colors, such as from the construction of the first house made out of bricks to the soft and aromatic petals of the house made out of flowers.
The author’s illustrations of the cold and hard houses made out of brick, mortar, barb wire and padlocks is a grim reminder of the disconnect and distrust many humans have with their neighbors just as the big, bad pig had with the wolves; therefore causing conflict among the two.
Review Excerpt(s)
*Publishers Weekly-"among the wittiest fractured fairy tales around."
*Booklist-“This fractured fairy tale has a subtle message, adding some heart to what otherwise might have been just a clever piece of storytelling. . . . The concepts that beauty can facilitate change and that tenderness works better than toughness won't be lost on kids.”
* Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books- “Irony entails a restoration of the proper order of things, and this book has a double transformation that will reassure young audiences at the same time it tells them a new truth about old tales: every pig has his day."
Connections
*Compare and Contrast with another version titled, The Fourth Little Pig, by Teresa Cecil and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.
*Practice point of view using the traditional tale of the Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.
*This version is a great example to use as a writing springboard where students may write their own version of The Three Little Pigs.
Trivizas, Eugene. 1993. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. By Helen Oxenbury. New York: NY: MacMillan. ISBN 0590486225
Plot Summary
In this version of the three little pigs the, the wolves are the ones having their houses destroyed by the big, bad pig. The first house built out of bricks was destroyed with a sledgehammer, the second house built out of concrete was destroyed with a pneumatic drill and the third house made out of barbed wire, iron bars, armor plates, heavy metal padlocks and Plexiglas was blown up with dynamite. Soon the three little wolves decided they must try something different so they built a house out of flowers. Soon the big, bad pig came to tear their house down, but the smell of flowers was so lovely that his heart grew tender and he decided to become a good pig. From then on the wolves played games with the pig, ate together and lived together happily ever after.
Critical Analysis
The text has the repeating situations and phrases from the traditional version of The Three Little Pigs. An example of this is when the three little wolves say “no, no, no. By the hair on our chinny-chin-chins.” And the big, bad pig says, “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!” Also, the characters are full of personality for they are either drinking tea, playing croquet in the garden or a game of shuttlecock and of course in the end build a house out of flowers. The ending of the story is quite ironic when the pig has a change of heart due to the strong aroma of the flowers and becomes friends with the three little wolves.
Helen Oxenbury's watercolor illustrations work well to create the various settings and transitions found in the story. The use of gray colors help to move the story from setting to setting from beginning to end, finishing with beautiful happy pastel colors, such as from the construction of the first house made out of bricks to the soft and aromatic petals of the house made out of flowers.
The author’s illustrations of the cold and hard houses made out of brick, mortar, barb wire and padlocks is a grim reminder of the disconnect and distrust many humans have with their neighbors just as the big, bad pig had with the wolves; therefore causing conflict among the two.
Review Excerpt(s)
*Publishers Weekly-"among the wittiest fractured fairy tales around."
*Booklist-“This fractured fairy tale has a subtle message, adding some heart to what otherwise might have been just a clever piece of storytelling. . . . The concepts that beauty can facilitate change and that tenderness works better than toughness won't be lost on kids.”
* Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books- “Irony entails a restoration of the proper order of things, and this book has a double transformation that will reassure young audiences at the same time it tells them a new truth about old tales: every pig has his day."
Connections
*Compare and Contrast with another version titled, The Fourth Little Pig, by Teresa Cecil and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.
*Practice point of view using the traditional tale of the Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka.
*This version is a great example to use as a writing springboard where students may write their own version of The Three Little Pigs.
Anansi and the Magic Stick
Bibliography
Kimmel, Eric. 2001. Anansi and the Magic Stick. By Janet Stevens. New York: Holiday House. ISBN 0823414434
Plot Summary
Anansi the spider is very lazy but clever. While everyone else like the lion, zebra, rhino and warthog work hard to either clean their houses or yards Anansi chooses not to. One day he walks by Hyenas house and wonders how Hyena keeps his house tidy yet no one ever sees him working. Anansi the spider spies on Hyena and finds out that Hyenas secret is a magic stick that does whatever Hyena says. Anansi steals the stick and tries to use it to tidy up around his house but ends up creating a mess and a flood. Anansi does not know how to stop it until Hyena floats by looking for his magic stick, finds it and leaves. Everyone else enjoys the lake thinking that poor Anansi was swept away by the flood, but they don’t know that Anansi is far away on the other side of the lake, sleeping all day and planning new tricks.
Critical Analysis
Many of the same safari characters such as the zebra, elephant, hyena rhinoceros, and lion found here can also be seen in the other Anansi folktales retold by Eric Kimmel. The story line of the Anansi folktales is always the same where the trickster, Anansi, the spider gets in trouble or gets someone else in trouble. Kimmel’s Anansi and the Magic Stick is loosely based on a Liberian story called the Magic Hoe. There are similarities to the story of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice where magic gets out of control and there’s a flood.
Janet Stephen’s colorful pictures were created using digital elements, watercolor, watercolor crayon, and acrylic. The Illustrations also have a modern-day appearance such as when we see modern day items such as the hose the stick uses to water, the watering cans and the circular sprinkler found in the vegetable garden. Also, when Anansi loses control of the magic stick, a flood is created, and then a mighty river is made and here we see caricature images of the author Eric A. Kimmel and the illustrator Janet Stevens floating by in a lifejacket and a dinosaur shape floatable. All of these effects add a humorous touch to the story.
Review Excerpt(s)
Booklist- “The slapstick of the trickster out-tricked is a lot of fun."
School Library Journal- “The art has a softer focus than in Talking Melon but the same bright colors fill the pages, and the whole adds up to an enjoyable offering that is clever, funny, surprising, and traditional all at once."
Connections
*Compare and contrast with the Sorcere’s Apprentice or Disney’s Fantasia.
*Compare and contrast the tricks of Anansi with other Anasi folktales such as Anansi and the Talking Melon.
Kimmel, Eric. 2001. Anansi and the Magic Stick. By Janet Stevens. New York: Holiday House. ISBN 0823414434
Plot Summary
Anansi the spider is very lazy but clever. While everyone else like the lion, zebra, rhino and warthog work hard to either clean their houses or yards Anansi chooses not to. One day he walks by Hyenas house and wonders how Hyena keeps his house tidy yet no one ever sees him working. Anansi the spider spies on Hyena and finds out that Hyenas secret is a magic stick that does whatever Hyena says. Anansi steals the stick and tries to use it to tidy up around his house but ends up creating a mess and a flood. Anansi does not know how to stop it until Hyena floats by looking for his magic stick, finds it and leaves. Everyone else enjoys the lake thinking that poor Anansi was swept away by the flood, but they don’t know that Anansi is far away on the other side of the lake, sleeping all day and planning new tricks.
Critical Analysis
Many of the same safari characters such as the zebra, elephant, hyena rhinoceros, and lion found here can also be seen in the other Anansi folktales retold by Eric Kimmel. The story line of the Anansi folktales is always the same where the trickster, Anansi, the spider gets in trouble or gets someone else in trouble. Kimmel’s Anansi and the Magic Stick is loosely based on a Liberian story called the Magic Hoe. There are similarities to the story of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice where magic gets out of control and there’s a flood.
Janet Stephen’s colorful pictures were created using digital elements, watercolor, watercolor crayon, and acrylic. The Illustrations also have a modern-day appearance such as when we see modern day items such as the hose the stick uses to water, the watering cans and the circular sprinkler found in the vegetable garden. Also, when Anansi loses control of the magic stick, a flood is created, and then a mighty river is made and here we see caricature images of the author Eric A. Kimmel and the illustrator Janet Stevens floating by in a lifejacket and a dinosaur shape floatable. All of these effects add a humorous touch to the story.
Review Excerpt(s)
Booklist- “The slapstick of the trickster out-tricked is a lot of fun."
School Library Journal- “The art has a softer focus than in Talking Melon but the same bright colors fill the pages, and the whole adds up to an enjoyable offering that is clever, funny, surprising, and traditional all at once."
Connections
*Compare and contrast with the Sorcere’s Apprentice or Disney’s Fantasia.
*Compare and contrast the tricks of Anansi with other Anasi folktales such as Anansi and the Talking Melon.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Poky Little Puppy
Bibliography
Lowrey, Janette Sebring. The Poky Little Puppy by Gustaf Tenggren
New York, NY: Western Publishing Company. ISBN 0307604187
Plot Summary
The Poky Little Puppy is a picture book that tells the story of five little puppies that dig a hole under the fence and explore the world outside their yard. Then they look around and notice that one puppy or “the poky little puppy” is missing, so they look for him up and down, and around the hill and come across other garden critters until they find the poky puppy. The poky little puppy smells dinner and they all run home only to be scowled by their mother and sent to bed without supper, all except for the poky little puppy who arrives home later, eats all the rice pudding and goes to bed happy as can be. The next two mornings the same thing happens and the poky little puppy continues to eat all the desserts except for the day when his mother discovers that he is the one who has been eating all the puddings and is greatly displeased.
Critical Analysis
Janette Lowrey’s story of the poky little puppy is about choices and the consequences of those choices. Children will identify with the characters and reflect about times when they were naughty. This story is filled with prepositions that children will find themselves repeating throughout the story as well as practicing counting the numbers one through four.
The illustrations are in full color and were quite a sensation during its time in the 1940’s. The colors of the blankets belonging to the puppies are a vibrant solid color while the poky little puppy’s blanket is a patchwork, indicating left overs or hand-me-downs, symbolically making the poky little puppy the runt of the litter as he is always the last one to arrive.
Review Excerpt(s)
Kathleen Karr (Children's Literature: “What a sorry sight to see the poky pup’s comeuppance! Toddlers may learn a lesson from the pup’s experience.”
Publishers Weekly: “The Poky Little Puppy is the all-time bestselling children’s hardcover book in English.”
Connections
*It is the number one bestselling children’s book
* Great book to teach cause and effect
* This book can serve young readers as an introduction to prepositions
* Can be used to teach lessons about good things happen to those who do the right thing.
* Another popular books in the Golden Book Series is Tootle and the Saggy Baggy Elephant
Lowrey, Janette Sebring. The Poky Little Puppy by Gustaf Tenggren
New York, NY: Western Publishing Company. ISBN 0307604187
Plot Summary
The Poky Little Puppy is a picture book that tells the story of five little puppies that dig a hole under the fence and explore the world outside their yard. Then they look around and notice that one puppy or “the poky little puppy” is missing, so they look for him up and down, and around the hill and come across other garden critters until they find the poky puppy. The poky little puppy smells dinner and they all run home only to be scowled by their mother and sent to bed without supper, all except for the poky little puppy who arrives home later, eats all the rice pudding and goes to bed happy as can be. The next two mornings the same thing happens and the poky little puppy continues to eat all the desserts except for the day when his mother discovers that he is the one who has been eating all the puddings and is greatly displeased.
Critical Analysis
Janette Lowrey’s story of the poky little puppy is about choices and the consequences of those choices. Children will identify with the characters and reflect about times when they were naughty. This story is filled with prepositions that children will find themselves repeating throughout the story as well as practicing counting the numbers one through four.
The illustrations are in full color and were quite a sensation during its time in the 1940’s. The colors of the blankets belonging to the puppies are a vibrant solid color while the poky little puppy’s blanket is a patchwork, indicating left overs or hand-me-downs, symbolically making the poky little puppy the runt of the litter as he is always the last one to arrive.
Review Excerpt(s)
Kathleen Karr (Children's Literature: “What a sorry sight to see the poky pup’s comeuppance! Toddlers may learn a lesson from the pup’s experience.”
Publishers Weekly: “The Poky Little Puppy is the all-time bestselling children’s hardcover book in English.”
Connections
*It is the number one bestselling children’s book
* Great book to teach cause and effect
* This book can serve young readers as an introduction to prepositions
* Can be used to teach lessons about good things happen to those who do the right thing.
* Another popular books in the Golden Book Series is Tootle and the Saggy Baggy Elephant
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Bibliography
Willems, Mo. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! By Mo Willems.
New York, NY: Hyperion Books. ISBN 9780786819881
Plot Summary
In this humorous and persuasive picture book the reader interacts with the book throughout the entire story. The story begins with the bus driver leaving the reader in charge of the bus but warning against letting the pigeon driving the bus. From beginning to end the pigeon thinks of every reason imaginable to bribes as to why the reader should let the pigeon drive the bus until the end where the pigeon ends up having a temper tantrum.
Critical Analysis
Author Mo Willems does an amazing job at pulling the reader in from the first page where the driver introduces himself and leaves the reader in charge of the bus (or the story) as he warns, “Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” The readers will find themselves saying no, every time the pigeon begs and pleads and laughing hilariously as you wonder why the bus driver doesn’t want the pigeon to drive the bus. This book is filled with a wonderful humorous voice.
The simple line drawings of the one-eyed pigeon come alive as the author/illustrator use the eye to express the emotions of the pigeon. The drawings have a cartoon like effect and the over use of lines don’t create a lot of flow or movement but more of a freeze frame effect.
Review Excerpt(s)
Booklist Starred Review: “Willems is a professional animator, and each page has the feel of a perfectly frozen frame of cartoon footage--action, remarkable expression, and wild humor captured with just a few lines.”
Horn Book’s starred review: "Clean, sparely designed pages focus attention on the simply drawn but wildly expressive (and emotive) pigeon, and there’s a particularly funny page-turn when a well-mannered double-page spread with eight vignettes of the pleading pigeon gives way to a full-bleed, full-blown temper tantrum."
Connections
* Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! DVD includes Read-along subtitles, in which the words are highlighted as they are spoken; the pages have been fully animated; author/illustrator Mo Willems teaches the children to draw Pigeon
* Don’t Let the Pigeon books are a great resource for teaching young writers the various types of sentences such as interrogative, exclamatory, declarative and declarative.
Willems, Mo. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! By Mo Willems.
New York, NY: Hyperion Books. ISBN 9780786819881
Plot Summary
In this humorous and persuasive picture book the reader interacts with the book throughout the entire story. The story begins with the bus driver leaving the reader in charge of the bus but warning against letting the pigeon driving the bus. From beginning to end the pigeon thinks of every reason imaginable to bribes as to why the reader should let the pigeon drive the bus until the end where the pigeon ends up having a temper tantrum.
Critical Analysis
Author Mo Willems does an amazing job at pulling the reader in from the first page where the driver introduces himself and leaves the reader in charge of the bus (or the story) as he warns, “Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!” The readers will find themselves saying no, every time the pigeon begs and pleads and laughing hilariously as you wonder why the bus driver doesn’t want the pigeon to drive the bus. This book is filled with a wonderful humorous voice.
The simple line drawings of the one-eyed pigeon come alive as the author/illustrator use the eye to express the emotions of the pigeon. The drawings have a cartoon like effect and the over use of lines don’t create a lot of flow or movement but more of a freeze frame effect.
Review Excerpt(s)
Booklist Starred Review: “Willems is a professional animator, and each page has the feel of a perfectly frozen frame of cartoon footage--action, remarkable expression, and wild humor captured with just a few lines.”
Horn Book’s starred review: "Clean, sparely designed pages focus attention on the simply drawn but wildly expressive (and emotive) pigeon, and there’s a particularly funny page-turn when a well-mannered double-page spread with eight vignettes of the pleading pigeon gives way to a full-bleed, full-blown temper tantrum."
Connections
* Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! DVD includes Read-along subtitles, in which the words are highlighted as they are spoken; the pages have been fully animated; author/illustrator Mo Willems teaches the children to draw Pigeon
* Don’t Let the Pigeon books are a great resource for teaching young writers the various types of sentences such as interrogative, exclamatory, declarative and declarative.
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
Bibliography
Hill, Laban Carrick. 2010. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave. by Bryan Collier.
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-10731-0
Plot Summary
In this simplistic but poetically structured biography we are taken on a journey of the life and creations of an important African American artist known as Dave who lived most of his life as a slave and created some of the most beautiful pieces of pottery etched with poetry. The story begins with how we look at clay as dirt but to him it was a way to give life to pots that to us had no real significance but for him they held wonderful memories.
Critical Analysis
Hill’s writing is a poem that celebrates Dave’s life and art as an artist, poet, and potter. Every page has one or two sentences beautifully written as a poem with short lines and stanzas that reinforce Dave’s life as a poet. Throughout the story the reader feels the sense of poetry that Dave must have felt and the step-by-step creation of pottery helps to move the story along smoothly. The inclusion of actual poems used by Dave adds to the historical realism of the time.
Bryan Collier’s illustrations of watercolor and collage portray Dave engaged step-by-step through the process of creating pottery from the collection of the clay, to grinding, kneading, and preparing the clay for the wheel, to applying the glaze, and finally showing Dave handwriting a poetic verse, the date, and his signature.
This is a great story that incorporates poetry, artistry, and history that could be used that could be used to teach any of those elements.
Review Excerpt(s)
Booklis: “Collier’s gorgeous watercolor-and-collage illustrations recall the work of E. B. Lewis—earth-toned, infused with pride, and always catching his subjects in the most telling of poses. A beautiful introduction to a great lost artist.”
Starred Review in School Library Journal: “An inspiring story, perfectly presented....Outstanding in every way.”
Children’s Literature: “Hill’s terse but emotionally evocative, poetic text describes the work of an enslaved potter in the 1800s”
Connections
*Curriculum connections to Art, Poetry, and Slavery
*Use other books that build background about slavery such as Julius Lester’s From Slave Ship to Freedom Road 1998.
*Gather other books illustrated by Bryan Collier, winner of the both Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for Martin’s Big Words and Rosa books dealing with slavery.
Hill, Laban Carrick. 2010. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave. by Bryan Collier.
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-10731-0
Plot Summary
In this simplistic but poetically structured biography we are taken on a journey of the life and creations of an important African American artist known as Dave who lived most of his life as a slave and created some of the most beautiful pieces of pottery etched with poetry. The story begins with how we look at clay as dirt but to him it was a way to give life to pots that to us had no real significance but for him they held wonderful memories.
Critical Analysis
Hill’s writing is a poem that celebrates Dave’s life and art as an artist, poet, and potter. Every page has one or two sentences beautifully written as a poem with short lines and stanzas that reinforce Dave’s life as a poet. Throughout the story the reader feels the sense of poetry that Dave must have felt and the step-by-step creation of pottery helps to move the story along smoothly. The inclusion of actual poems used by Dave adds to the historical realism of the time.
Bryan Collier’s illustrations of watercolor and collage portray Dave engaged step-by-step through the process of creating pottery from the collection of the clay, to grinding, kneading, and preparing the clay for the wheel, to applying the glaze, and finally showing Dave handwriting a poetic verse, the date, and his signature.
This is a great story that incorporates poetry, artistry, and history that could be used that could be used to teach any of those elements.
Review Excerpt(s)
Booklis: “Collier’s gorgeous watercolor-and-collage illustrations recall the work of E. B. Lewis—earth-toned, infused with pride, and always catching his subjects in the most telling of poses. A beautiful introduction to a great lost artist.”
Starred Review in School Library Journal: “An inspiring story, perfectly presented....Outstanding in every way.”
Children’s Literature: “Hill’s terse but emotionally evocative, poetic text describes the work of an enslaved potter in the 1800s”
Connections
*Curriculum connections to Art, Poetry, and Slavery
*Use other books that build background about slavery such as Julius Lester’s From Slave Ship to Freedom Road 1998.
*Gather other books illustrated by Bryan Collier, winner of the both Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for Martin’s Big Words and Rosa books dealing with slavery.
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