Stone Soup

This book is great because of what it teach and how 3 staving soldiers came with 

a great idea to unify a town that was completely  separated.

This is a great idea for a dramatic play after  reading the story.

Seven Blind Mice

The great thing about this book is the lesson that it give us and the reason why

it won a Caldecott Award.

My favorite Part about the story is that we all have 7 different point of view

nothing is what it seems just like the book said, while the seven little mouse keep

guessing what that big thing was drinking water, the last one and wiser old mouse was the one to figure the riddle up and discover it was an elephant at the end.

It look like spilt milk

It look like spilt milk.

Is a great book for children of ages 2-4 while there are letters in the book the 

great thing about this is that you can also make your own story by looking

at the pictures and retelling the story on your own words. This is a great

book also to use with children that have special needs.

Fairy Tales Versus Reality.

In this unit I will explain a little about why so vary tale where so important back in the days and also the impact that has in kids. Is not just a story if you analyze you will discover what each story has to say and of course as a children we all want to have a happy ending and have our prince charming and our princess, this will help you to understand deeply that well sometimes not all of us have a happy ending but it shore does teach us a lesson.

This are the dreams as prototype for narrative tales.

In the ID we have:                               Superego:

The Hero                                               The villain 

The Young                                             The old

The Quest                                              The fighter agains heroes 

The Desire                                             The bad stepmother

The Brave                                              The deters 

The Magic                                             The jealous one

The Marriage                                         The one that prevent marriage/ evil one

Bruno Bettelheim described the superego as our morality values, how someone humble and with some kind of special magical power and remain truth to himself,things that we grow up learning and sometimes people forget about them and why some of the most famous characters in this stories at the end they don't have nothing. Also Charles Brenner supper Freud but whit a different point of view he things that day dreaming is good for kids it let them explore and expand their imagination whit out, something that is not real like spells and magic something that in the past if you recall was consider as which craft, thats the reason why some of this book where banned in the first place. But it also makes the week feel very important and invincible, with all his/her power, the most beautiful or handsome in the town or the most popular. In Fairy tales you will see that the poor always defeat the strongest and handsome person and wins everything and as always they live happily ever after.

But Bettelheim was better because he also try to make understand that in the real life nothing of that happens to regular people, but it teach children's a great thing to fight and to keep their moral values with them, how not only in very tale we all have mean stepmothers or bad stepsisters. It show you how you can also establish a home and succeed and non of this books are related to Oediopal themes  like some of the folks  or narrative persons said back in those days.

Now thank to the Greeks we can distinguish tragedy,from comedy and drama.

The Red Book

This is a wordless picture book for kids of all ages. A young girl finds a magical red book that reveals another world where a boy has the same book and can see her as well. The girl finds a way to join her friend at the end of the book and leaves you wondering. It is a delightful story with simple yet telling colorful illustrations.

This book is a good choice for introducing the genre of magical fantasy to young readers. It offers children an opportunity to discuss the story as they look at the details in each successive frame. For older children, they could write text to match the pictures and practice targeted literary skills.



                                       Here is the story  for the "Red Book" red out loud.

                                    After reading this book or viewed you can make some
                                   great collage, that show places, people transportations etc.

                                   The great thing about this book is that you make your own story
                                   by just seeing the pictures in the book and how you does it ends.

The Boy of The Three-Year Nap

This story is categorized as a realistic tale, and I can see why! The boy is extremely lazy, while his mother is a hard worker. His mother wants him to go work but the boy comes up with a plan so he won’t have to. He pretends to be a god, and goes to the merchant demanding that his daughter marry Taro. He knows that she will never marry him unless their house was in better condition. His plan works, and the merchant has people come and fix up his house, meaning Taro won’t have to. At the end, Taro has to supervise the merchant’s store, which means he will no longer have any time for naps, which is what his mother wanted all along. This story has a very realistic plot and I would enjoy using this story to teach my students about why laziness is not a value. It’s a story I could see being passed down from generation to generation to teach children to value work. This story would also be good to compare the Chinese culture with, and to discuss what theme might be.This book is for older children's from 6-8.

                                  After reading the story ask some questions.

                                  1- what time do you wake up?
                                  2- Do you help around the house?
                                  3-What are your duties in the house when you are not in school?
                                  4-With your family make some soup or rice and share it at school.
                                              
                                               


                                 Here is a recipe  that you can make at home with a little help.

Crow Boy by Taro Yashima

Crow Boy
Taro Yashima
Viking: New York 1955

This book is a great way to introduce the topic of bullying through a multicultural lens. This story centers around a boy that does not fit with the social and cultural norms of his classmates throughout his school career. He continually is bullied and made fun of until the sixth grade when a teacher takes interest in him and creates opportunities for him to show his talents and knowledge. This account of prolonged bullying and the resilience of a single student who does not fit in the social norm uses what seems to be colored pencil illustrations that allow for shading, multiple color use, and abstraction within each illustration. Each classmate's face along with the main character's face are somewhat blurred and allow for a greater audience for this story, since it is not esoterically identified with Japan and Japanese culture. The theme truly carries this story of an outcast boy who is later admired for his crow calls and becomes called "Crow Boy".

The Japanese culture is portrayed sparsely in this account, but it is clear, from the illustrations and some parts of the language, that this story takes place in Japan. The colors that are used, such as yellow, bright blue, pink, and green, are not typical to Japanese traditional arts, but bring a great vibrancy to the story and a lighthearted nature to parts of the story that are more optimistic. The faces are somewhat abstracted so the characters are not expressly Japanese, but the cultural elements, such as a lunch of a rice ball wrapped in a radish leaf and a raincoat made from dried zebra grass, show Japanese elements are included in this story.

I would definitely recommend this story to grades 2-4. This is a short picture book with bright illustrations that covers an interesting theme that is extremely applicable and relevant to American students today. Although this book was written some time ago, the topic of bullying, respecting multiple intelligences, and encouraging unknown talents in students are still truly important for students to understand. Overall, I think that this book shows some authentic cultural details with vibrant illustrations and a terrific theme.

After reading the story make some questions.

1- How would you field if you where crow boy?

2- Do you know someone that looks like crow boy in your class or neighbor ?

3- What would you o to make "Chibie" feel better?

4- What does "Chibie" means? it means small boy

After this you can make some craft using things that you can find in the feel,

like acorn rap or dried leaf and try to make your own Chibie or Chibie clothes.