The PreK Teacher

So I came across three books that I personally would classify as folklore... There’s : The Knight and the Dragon Previously The Rabbit and the Turtle Aesop’s Fables First up is The Rabbit and the Turtle. Eric Carle recreated Aesop’s fables making them his own with the words and illustrations, but keeping the lesson/moral. Simple enough this type of folklore is called fables. Next we have Previously. This book by Alan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman is a story about what happened before Goldilocks went into the woods and entered the Bear’s house, ate their porridge, broke their chair, laid in their beds, got caught, and fled. This is where the part comes in about what I “personally” would classify as a folktale. I would call this a fractured fairy tale because it includes the storyline of the Goldilocks and the three bears but goes in to falling aboit what exactly Goldilocks  was doing before the story as we know it. Last is The Knight and the Dragon. I would classify this partic...

I came across three picture story books.. -Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Fletcher illustrated by Kate Kiesler -Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes - The Pencil by Alan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman In my opinion, all three of my choices qualify as picture story book. They have the fusion of text and illustration made into a creative product. However, I do think the illustrations from Twilight Comes Twice could not simply tell the story just by looking at the pictures like the other two, but the illustrations do correlate with the story and strike your inner creativity and imagination. Twilight Comes Twice is about the two times in the day that the sun rises and the sun sets (twilight). It goes on to describe what types of things go on during those parts of the day. The illustrations are beautiful and realistically depict how the sky and other parts of nature look during different times of the day. Wemberly Worried is a sweet book about a girl (well she's really a mouse) named Wem...

The book I read was The Luon and the Mouse. This was a Caldecott Medal winner and the book is solely illustrations. There are no words, which I didn't know when I picked it up. The story is based off of Aesop's Fables, so of course it's a popular story. The illustrations are very unique and the pictures portray the story so well that you can tell the story without having to read a word. Pinkney used great detail from the hairs of the mouse to the minuscule    ants and the tall blades of grass. To sum it up in one word the book was very creative.