Sunday, February 24, 2013

#19 Magic Lemonade


Title: Magic Lemonade
Author: Joyce Dunbar
Illustrator: Jan McCafferty
Publishing Company: Crabtree Publishing Company
Copyright Date: 2002
# of Pages: 48
 

Genre/Category: Fantasy

 

 


I chose this book simply because it looked interesting. Zoe has a very good imagination. She pretends she is a queen, while her friends think she is nothing but a bossy boots. When Zoe offers her friend lemonade, she finally convinces them that she is a queen. After they have a feast with food and lemonade, she then admits that she is not a queen, she is a magician.
 

            The illustrations in this book look to have been done with watercolors or paint. The colors are very bright and stand out. They use bubbles to represent what the characters are thinking about in their head. The pictures take up most of the page and many of them are double page spread.
 
          This book would be appropriate for children in second and third grade. One way I would use this book in the classroom is by teaching kids about using their imagination.  I would share with them that it can be good to pretend. I would also use this book teach children that it is not good to be bossy and selfish. Another way I would use this in class is by helping children to increase their vocabulary comprehension. This book has not won any awards.

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