Written and Illustrated by: Kevin O'Malley
Illustrated by: Carol Heyer and Scott Goto
This book is so unique! It creatively intertwines stereotypical boy and girl story qualities into one. Both boys and girls would love this story. The author uses two characters, a young boy and girl. Throughout the book the boy and girl create a story together. The girl begins their story by focusing on a fairy tale about a lady stuck in a castle waiting for her prince charming to come rescue her; the boy focuses on the cool superhero that fights the big, bad green monster. They begin to play off each others view points and by doing so their own viewpoints shift.. as does the plot of the story.
This story is recommended for students between the ages of 6 and 10. The illustrations within the book are comic-strip like. The author's did a fantastic job of creating visuals that accurately aid the words of the book. In addition, within the illustrations the characters have 'word bubbles'. Due to this, this story would be great to use in order to introduce the idea of putting dialogue into writing. (A great idea for a mini-lesson for a Writer's Notebook!).
I really enjoyed reading this book. I was always interested about what was going to happen when I turned the page. The relationship between the two characters is comical. Furthermore, both of the characters are easy to relate to. I would recommend this book to my students as an individual read or for a group activity. I would also consider reading it out loud to the class.
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