Nancy Paulsen Books (2016)
The book that I decided to evaluate at the end of this course is I hear the Pickle by Rachel Isadora! This book is all about the five senses that children learn that they have, and their ability to use these senses. The book begins describing the five senses and how they are used. Everyone to four pages in the book has one sense on it. The first four pages are all about hearing. The author describes different things that a child would hear from day to day. The author talks about birds chirping, bees buzzing, and parents talking. All of these examples in the book talk about things the child can hear. The author then talks about things that the child cannot hear, like worms, or food. For the first fifth of the book, the author talks about all the different things that children can and cannot hear. For the second fifth of the book the author describes smell, and how we use our noses to smell. The author gives examples of good smells and bad smells. Things that children would often smell would be the dinner their mother is cooking, or how good their deodorant or perfume smells in the morning. Bad smells would include dog poop, and body odor. The author uses to describe good and bad smells in a way to teach children the correct behaviors. This book also teaches children's that they should not smell bad and they need to take care of their personal hygiene. The third fifth of the book the author describes sight, and different things children would hear day in and day out. Children would see their friends at school, they would see the T.V and the book they are reading. The author explains things that children would not see like air! The author explains that there are things that children will be able to see and that they will not be able to see. The fourth out of the five parts of the book the author introduces touch. The author describes good things to touch and bad things to touch. She gives examples of touching books that you read, touching a friend when they are sad, and touching sand at the beach. Bad things to touch include cactuses, poop, and hot objects like a stove. While this book is very basic and just giving examples of the five senses its also teaching children important things to not touch! The last of the five senses is taste. The author talks about all kinds of healthy foods to eat and gross fast foods to not eat. The author instructs the children and encourages them to eat healthy foods instead of eating junk food. The last page of the book the author talks about a pickle just to be silly, using all five senses.
This book is incredibly basic for children of all ages, but it helps to identify things that they should and shouldn't do. The book includes wonderful pictures that matches the text to keep children engaged, and it uses a fun font and awesome descriptive words to make the book even more silly. This is a picture book that students can read on their own or with their teacher in class. This book is special because it can be used in classes of all ages, from preschool to third grade. For preschoolers this book can be used to just identify their five senses and make them aware of these senses. As a preschooler they are constantly learning all about themselves, so learning their five senses would be a lot of fun. For third graders, this book can be used to tell them what they can and can?t touch, or eat! This book can be used to reiterate their five senses but focus on the sense of taste and teach them about good foods to eat and bad foods to eat. Children nowadays are more into electronics and junk food and they are getting fatter. This book can teach them about healthy foods and foods that they should eat more often.
Overall, this book is a great book for all ages. The main idea of this book is about the five senses and how to use each of the five correctly. I think that the pictures can be a little juvenile and they might have trouble engaging older students but other then that the book is fantastic. I think this book would be great for young kids. After reading this book the teacher can play a game, sing a song, or make an art project in class about the five senses, and they teacher could instruct the kids about safe and healthy ways to use their five senses. I really enjoyed reading this book and I think it is a book that can benefit any teacher, in any classroom, in any grade!!
Review by Justin Woodford
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