Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A Book by Mordicai Gerstein


This was another book that I wasn’t expecting. The premise is when the book closes all of the characters are asleep because it’s dark, yet when it’s opened al of the characters wake up. A little girl can’t decide what her story is, so she goes from page to page throughout the whole book, trying to find her story. The neatest thing about this book is the perspective. As you are looking at the pages, it looks like you are actually looking down into their world. At one point they even make a reference to it. Though this book has minimal text, it’s fun to examine the various pages and read the little words and conversation bubbles taking place between characters. This allows you to see things that you might have missed had there been a lot of text. You could use this book to teach or introduce elementary kids to perspective in any content area.

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