Publisher: Greenwillow Books; Pap/Cas edition (September 22, 1997)
Readability Lexile: 570
This is a story about two best friends named Chester and Wilson. They do everything together, but when a new girl Lilly moves in they are scared of her and they think she's weird. But, one day she helps them when some bullies are picking on them, and they discover that she's a lot like them and they all become best friends. This book really focuses on relaying the message to get to know someone before you make judgments.
This was another well done book by Henkes. It is truly amazing that his simple stories can be so well written and illustrated. You really got to know all the characters in this story, and you could see them grow throughout. The plot was very believable, and I think it relates to a lot of students. The language in the story sounded very natural, and it fit the characters very well because you really got a sense of them being elementary aged kids. The illustrations are authentic, but very similar to Henkes' other work. Again this book has a ton of personification in it and it is also full of adjectives and adverbs. This like many of his other pieces reflects students who are faced with a problem. I truly believe that text is a great way to understand problems. It would be really easy to transition into talking about being new and the feelings that go with that, accepting everyone, not judging people before you know them, and being that friend to the new person. All these issues occur in elementary, and they all should be addressed. This is just a nice easy way to do it.
This book could be used for early elementary, and I also think it could be used in the middle elementary. If I was going to use this story in a lesson; I would focus on adjectives again and also feelings again. These books would be great for a feelings unit that focuses on adjectives describing how we feel, and verbs describing how we deal with our feelings.
Thanks for reading!
Gorms
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