| Booktalk
#1
When summer vacation comes
around, what do you like to do? How many of you have ever planted
a garden or flowers before? After this discussion, I would ask what
kind of plants would be useful to a group of people or civilization and
why. This would lead into other useful things that civilizations
need in order to survive. Have on hand some illustrations of hieroglyphics,
buildings, and inventions when they call these out to help make your point.
Introduce the book, perhaps even showing some of the colorful illustrations
to catch their attention. ("Naomi Bates" <mira93@yahoo.com>)
Booktalk #2
Wesley definitely is not like
other boys at his school, not liking normal foods, or sports, or even the
latest hairstyles. The other children mock him, chasing him home, making
his life a torment. Ah, then comes summer vacation! Feeling out of place,
Wesley decides to make his own place, and uses his wonderful imagination
and skill to create a whole new civilization, which he names Weslandia.
Experience the amusing details of his creation, and watch how his classmates
now react to him and his new world. (Jeannie Bellavance bellavance@erols.com
for Pennsylvania
Young Reader's Choice Awards) |
