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    The document evaluates the children's book "My Shadow" and provides a summary of the plot, which follows a boy and how his shadow changes throughout the day, growing tall and shrinking. It analyzes the illustrations, setting, characters, and connects the story to Piaget's preoperational cognitive development stage by explaining how shadows help children develop mental images to understand the world. The evaluator gives the book an overall rating of 8 and recommends it for younger children to introduce the concept of shadows simply.

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    The document evaluates the children's book "My Shadow" and provides a summary of the plot, which follows a boy and how his shadow changes throughout the day, growing tall and shrinking. It analyzes the illustrations, setting, characters, and connects the story to Piaget's preoperational cognitive development stage by explaining how shadows help children develop mental images to understand the world. The evaluator gives the book an overall rating of 8 and recommends it for younger children to introduce the concept of shadows simply.

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    The document evaluates the children's book "My Shadow" and provides a summary of the plot, which follows a boy and how his shadow changes throughout the day, growing tall and shrinking. It analyzes the illustrations, setting, characters, and connects the story to Piaget's preoperational cognitive development stage by explaining how shadows help children develop mental images to understand the world. The evaluator gives the book an overall rating of 8 and recommends it for younger children to introduce the concept of shadows simply.

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    Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

    Your Name: Rachel Romero


    Book Title: My Shadow
    Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
    Genre: Modern Fantasy
    Illustrator: Sara Sanchez
    Publisher/Year: 1885
    Evaluate the Book for the following elements
    Style and Language: Using examples for the book, explain the following: Word
    choices, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme and sentence length. Share unexpected insights or
    interesting information the reader learns from this story. (5 points)
    Something I thought was interesting was their choice in which words to make bold.
    The words they made bold are either action words like, in and out, jump, grow,
    coward, and sticks.

    Character: With examples from the book, provide the following- (5 points)
    Who is the main character?
    How can the reader relate to the character?
    Who are the supporting characters?
    The main character is the little boy and readers can relate to him whenever they see
    their own shadow.
    The supporting character is the boys shadow.

    Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)


    This story makes it hard to pinpoint any major events. The entire story is about the
    boys’ shadow and how it grows tall and shrinks very small and sometimes doesn’t
    even appear at all.
    Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)
    Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
    The setting of this book takes place in the boys’ home. There are parts where he is in
    his room, in his yard, and in the basement. The main message of this book is that
    shadows are always changing and appear different throughout the day.

    Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
    Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2
    points)
    The style of the illustrations are cartoon art.

    Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk):
    (2 points)
    The media choice looks like it could be watercolors or oil paints.

    Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
    illustrations: (3)
    Line: There are lines going down the walls in the illustration.
    Shapes: There are a few different shapes throughout the book. There are circles on
    the bed frame, the frames are squares, there are rectangle doors, and a triangle
    window.
    Color: There is color throughout the entire book and every illustration is full or color.
    The color pattern seems to be pastel.
    Texture: The texture of the pages seem smooth.
    Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
    all pages the same or different). (3)
    Each page has a white boarder around the illustrations and the text it either above or
    below the illustration box.

    Child Development Theory: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social Emotional to


    describe the connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)
    Piaget:
    Name the stage: Preoperational and the age: 2-7
    Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
    book to support your choice:

    At this stage children learn and understand the world through language and mental
    images. The shadows of this book can help children gain that mental image and better
    understand why they have a shadow.

    1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended


    Your rating of the book: 8

    Why?
    I think this would be a good book for younger ages. It’s a great way to introduce
    shadows in a simple way. I gave it an 8 just because it didn’t catch my attention very
    well so I would imagine it would do the same for some children.

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