An Interpretation Of Puppy's Find By Heather Payer-Smith

Decent Essays
Puppy’s Find by Heather Payer-Smith is the first wordless picture book I chose to evaluate. The book has a sequentially organized plot that provides a framework for children who are just developing their own organizational skills. The book walks the reader through a dog going outside to berry a bone and come back inside the house. The depth of detail is appropriate for the level of children it is simple pictures with lots of colors to catch the child’s attention. If the child is a pet owner, then they would have enough experiential background to understand and interpret the illustrations on their own. If the child does not own a dog, they may need to be accompanied by an adult. The size of the book is appropriate and the subject I believe will

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    In the passage “What Has Happened Here” Elsa Barkley Brown believes that women’s history should be inclusive of gender, race, and culture as these have important significance in shaping outcomes and society perspective. She talks about how historians like to “isolate one conversation” (297) to explore them to tailor its dialogue to fit different narratives. This however in turn loses significant facts that should not be left out when shaping the details. Barkley is adamant about the importance of Anita Hill’s race in the testimony of the sexual harassment case. Thinking that in order to make the public more sympathetic and keep the case simplified they should focus strictly on the sexual harassment of a women by a man.…

    • 356 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Barley, Lisa. “Rescue Me: Animal Adoption Dos and Don’ts.” Vegetarian Times, Dec. 2014, pp. 48+. General OneFile, db20.linccweb.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA391308694&docType=Article&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=&prodId=AONE&contentSet=GALE%7CA391308694&searchId=R1&userGroupName=lincclin_phcc&inPS=true.…

    • 847 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Karen Russell’s “St Lucy’s Home for Girl Raised by Wolves” is a short story about a pack of wolf-girls going through five stages of development. Specifically the character, Claudette. As she develops a human-like identity, it appears that she starts to relate to all five stages, and loses her wolf-like identity as this happens The first stage of lycanthropic culture shock states that the girls will find everything new and exciting. During this stage, Claudette starts out with a wolf-like identity, with some human-like qualities.…

    • 408 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    St. Lucy’s School for Wolf Girls makes notable comparisons to the public education system of today. The story takes the lives of the wolf girls, and the portrayal of their lives are strongly correlated with today's school system. With the mention of the emphasis on grades, the competition to be one of the better students, and how the school system alters students to make them better fit for what is socially accepted, the story goes to show the negative aspects of today's school system. Overall, the story shows today's public education in a very negative manner, with little to no mention of the beneficial aspects of the school system.…

    • 1067 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Go Dogs Go Analysis

    • 733 Words
    • 3 Pages

    No book can ever top off the experiences I had with Go Dogs Go, not only was it the rhymes and phrases you wrote, the excitement I had reading your book mattered most to me, and how I imagine myself in the book. Reading your young, child book simply sparked my interest in reading at a young age. The significant message behind the book, the dogs traveling, and enjoying life, naturally made my life much easier. When I read the book, feeling relaxed, the problems on the playground early that day, fights with my sister, or sitting in time out, all seem to go…

    • 733 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Picture Book Symbolism

    • 380 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Picture Books in the Health Curriculum Health classes are another area of middle school curriculum that could benefit from utilizing picture books. Many social and health issues are covered in picture books targeting the middle school students. As an introduction to the topic of mental health, The Red Tree by Shaun Tan is a great example of a well-illustrated picture book that creates of a visual image of depression. The symbolism of the red leaf throughout the story can be discussed as it pertains to the hope in the struggle with depression.…

    • 380 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What is a God? Is He a higher being someone made up to feel better when people did something bad? Or the “person” that is up in the sky waiting for us to join Him after we die? Or a real, loving, caring higher power whose always has your back? A Christian God is a God who holds all morals and who does not want to see His people hurting, but wanting them to succeed and have a great life.…

    • 1030 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Play the Even Tenor In “St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell depicts a group of girls, Claudette, Jeanette, and Mirabella, who become sheltered in a rehabilitation home for girls raised by wolves. Once there, they struggle to assimilate themselves according to the expectations and demands of a different culture or society. Through point-of-view and conflict, Russell divulges the roles that are imposed on individuals when transitioning to a new culture; ultimately revealing the force that it may have on individuals to abandon previous beliefs and relationships.…

    • 701 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Roget's The Right Word

    • 169 Words
    • 1 Pages

    For a nonfiction piece, The Right Word, had a unique captivating aspect that kept me more interested than most picture books of this genre. What I really enjoyed in The Right Word was the illustrations. They were both unique and captivating. In addition to the story being interesting, the pictures within it would definitely catch a student’s attention. I hadn’t done any background research prior to starting the book, so as I realized that it was nonfiction, I noticed that it would be even more relatable for students.…

    • 169 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The prose from ‘Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight’ by Alexandra Fuller is full of imagery that makes the reader understand the characters better, as well as the situation that the characters are in. The author uses eloquent language to support the imagery in the text. Her usage of language helps us get a broader view of what the characters are like and how these characters form a family, we also get a perspective of the business that this family is working in and how they are in a way discriminated by looks, a farmer differing from a buyer. And how the tobacco business is hard from the perspective of the farmers. The three major things that I have noticed while reading this prose was that there is a great amount of imagery, the characters…

    • 1102 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The introduction Boy Overboard, is a highly realistic fiction/child's literature book, that was released in 2002 by Morris Gleitzman, who wanted to recreate the story of a family escaping from to go to Australia, in the most realistic way possible. In this moving tale, Jamal and his family who live in one of the millions of villages in Afghanistan are force to leave. Jamal's mother has been running secret school for a while, and just like many other things in Afghanistan, it's illegal and doing such a crime can end up costing you your life. So when the evil government finds out about this “school”, the family are forced to desperately flee for their lives.…

    • 762 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The author of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves", Karen Russell, sets up epigraphs in place of chapters for effect. In the stage 2 epigraph the effect that are projected are dissociation and a sense of "general un-comfortableness". The nuns take a very brutal approach to the girls' self-esteem and mental well-being, even going as far as questioning them "do you want to end up being shunned by both species?" which is a preview of the disassociation effect. A preview of how uncomfortable the girls are feeling is that the nuns are sowing them a slideshow of former wolf girls who have "failed to be rehabilitated".…

    • 397 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The following is from Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Winnemucca wrote her book Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims in 1882. Winnemucca wrote this book to help highlight stories of her people and the interactions they had with white European and American settlers. Winnemucca hoped her writings would have the desired outcome of forcing change and getting public opinion and government officials on the sides of Native American tribes. Winnemucca portrayed cross-cultural interaction as inevitable. Nevertheless early interactions with white settlers and pioneers set the tone for all the following years of Winnemucca’s life.…

    • 977 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sometimes when you ask a question you truly do not want to know the answer. Though we as humans ask anyway due to our human nature which defines us as people, we may not always make the best decisions but our instincts tell us to find out more. Curiosity in the book titled: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Christopher Boone is a curious young boy, who wonders innocently about what kind of a person could possibly feel it necessary to harm a dog. He then dedicates his time to figure out who had taken its life and why.…

    • 1159 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Kids who having reading difficulties can read to their pet to help their reading grade. It's scientifically proven that reading to a dog can help you be better at reading by more than 12%. When you read out loud to a dog you can practice fluency, grammar, and punctuation. Also, some people did a study in Aug. 2011 about if dogs can help you read.…

    • 889 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays