Kathey Smith
Book Review
2. PLOT SUMMARY- THE TALE OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES is a retelling of an Arabian folktale. In this version a poor wood cutter who has a rich brother. The wood cutter finds a cave full of gold. He tells his brother about it his brother goes to the cave and gets caught and is killed. He brings his brothers body by home and the thieves realizes that someone else knows about the cave. When they find out its Ali Baba they plan to kill him. A young servant girl of his brother’s helps him trick the commander and the forty thieves and kill them.
3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS- This story has a moral built into it of being greedy. Ali Baba’s brother lost his life by being greedy. Kindness and friendship may also be viewed in this folktale from the young servant girl befriended Ali and helped him. The illustrations depict Arabian dress. Hillenbrand used a lot of vibrant colors and explicit details that presents the expressions on the characters faces which allows the reader to confirm feelings and behaviors of the characters.
4. REVIEW EXCERPT(S)-
Publishers Weekly- “Kimmel retells it smoothly”
School Library Journal “probably the second most recognized
from the Arabian Nights reads smoothly”
5. CONNECTIONS- This story would be excellent for shared, group or teacher reading, this story could be a good resource to aide in teaching a moral unit.
Kathey Smith
Book Review
1. BIBLIOGRAPH- Wiesner, David. 2001. THE THREE PIGS. Ill. David Wiesner. New York: Clarion Books. ISBN 0618007016
2. PLOT SUMMARY- THE THREE PIGS is a retelling of a popular piece of art. Wiesner uses his talent of imagination to send the little pigs into stories of that era to escape the terrible wolf. David Wiesner did a wonderful job with color and detail of the characters.
3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS- This traditional story starts off with the well-known predictable activities. Wiesner gave this traditional story a large twist by using the pigs to take paths that were unpredictable to escape. This story may not be easy to understand if the listener is not familiar with the original story.
4. REVIEW EXCERPT(S)
Children’s Literature- “His porkers have real personalities”
Booklist- “He turned the favorite porkers’ story upside-down by allowing the grossly misjudged wolf to tell his side of the story”
5. This story would be good as an extension to A Three Little Pig unit.
This story could also promote ideas for student to write and retell stories as well as compare and contrast.
· Other stories that involves pigs.
E.B. White- CHARLOTTE’S WEB ISBN- 0064400557
Charlotte Pomerantz- THE PIGGY IN THE PUDDLE ISBN- 0027749002
Bruce Whatley- WAIT NO PAINT ISBN- 0040282703
Kathey Smith
1.BIBLIOGRAPHY- Simms, Taback. 1997 THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY. New York: Penguin Group. 0670869392
2.PLOT SUMMARY- THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY is a retelling of a popular folk song with beautiful die cut art by Taback Simms. In this story an old woman swallows a fly and continues to swallow other things to catch previously swallowed items and she gets bigger and bigger until she dies.
3. CRITICAL ANALYSIS- This story is full of drama, and humor. This story also presents a type of repetition by the old woman doing the same thing over and over which provides questions that promotes thinking skills for children.
4. REVIEW EXCERPT(S)-
Publishers Weekly- “ingenious Taback use a die cut hole where the woman’s
stomach is so that the audience can see where everything ends up” SCHOOL
LIBRARY JOUNAL – “this cleverly illustrated version of an old folk favorite
Will delight children”
5. CONNECTIONS- This story has a moral of do not swallow anything especially a
horse. Could be used as a song or turned into a play
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