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Author: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrator: Peter Sis
Genre:Poetry, Fables, and Folktales
Publisher: HarperCollins
Copyright Date: 1993
Pages: 40
Summary: This book is a combination of 17 poems about dragons. Dragons that are big, small, gentle, and ferocious. The poems encourage your imagination while using rhyme and rhythm, and wonderful words that will challenge the reader. The illustrations are absolutely amazing and hypnotize the reader with their beauty.
Educational Purpose: I would have students create their own poems with a certain kind of animal. For example dog, and the different types of dogs, and which one is their favorite dog. You could do this with cats, horses, birds, and fish.
Grade Level: (Fourth to Sixth Grade) This book challenges the reader with more complex vocabulary words. No Lexile Available.
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Plot
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Excellent plot that is clever and has many surprising twists.
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Good plot that has some surprises.
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This is an okay plot that is kinda interesting.
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Loose plot with many holes, and fails to grab the reader’s attention.
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Lots of rhythm and rhyme, and surprising words.
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Character
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Excellent characterization. The characters are complex and provide a strong emotional impact on the reader.
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The characters are believable and the reader can relate to them, and feel an emotional tie to the characters.
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The characters are lacking but likable. There is some emotional attachment to the characters.
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The characters are poorly described, and leave the reader feeling detached from the book.
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The dragons are so enchanting that after reading you will find yourself believing in dragons.
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Illustration
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Excellent illustrations. Very detailed, creative, and connected to the book.
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Illustrations were good and showed something important about the book.
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The illustrations were okay, they were not very creative.
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There was no illustrations, or they were not interesting.
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The pictures are charming and imaginative.
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Recommendation
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Excellent book that I highly recommend having in your classroom or library. This book will captivate, enchant, fascinate, and basically make you obsess about it.
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Good book that I recommend having in your classroom or library. The book was interesting and kept my interest and was overall very engaging.
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This book was okay. I believe this would be a book to check out from the library if you're feeling bored.
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This book was awful and I cannot recommend it for your classroom or library. This book will leave you wishing you could rewind time so you don’t read it.
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Amazing book! I highly recommend this book because the poems are creative but the illustrations are even more magnificent.
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I want to read this poetry book, and I believe that children would too. Dragons are awesome. I believe just thinking about dragons and magical lands makes children start to imagine. If we can tap into this imagination, we can engage the students. I think between the pictures and the poems this would be a great teaching resource. Nice blog post.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like it would be a great book to use for introducing a poetry unit! Using a creature like dragons would definitely capture the students' interest. I think it would be great if your class did their own collective poetry book where everyone writes their own poem about a particular animal and you bind them all into an actual book! The students would be so excited if they got to see their own work in something that looks like an actual book.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a fantastic book for the classroom. A lot of kids are really into dragons right now and this would draw a lot of kids in who might not think they like poetry. Thanks for sharing this book.
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