Written by: Kevin Henkes
Pictures by: Anita Lobel
This book is one of five books that I am reading as part of my author study. The audience for this book is recommended to be 2+. Although the book uses simple language, it's not "insultingly simple" or "boring" and the illustrations really help aid the story. There are three main characters in the story: 1) a magic seed, 2) a boy, and 3) a rabbit. Although these characters never really know one another, the book takes the reader on an adventure that affects each character differently. In the end each character is happy with the outcome it had been handed.
I really enjoyed the simplicity of the story. It was short, simple, and sweet. As I was reading this story, future lesson plan involving this book kept popping up in my mind. I could see myself using this story as a predicting/inferring lesson. There were many points in the story were I could stop the story and say "Ok! Now... what do you think is going to happen to the seed?" (or to the boy, or to the rabbit).
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