Illustrated by Betina Ogden. In rhyming couplets, a young girl describes the joys of life on a busy farm. This practical book contains suggestions intended mainly for teachers who are just beginning to use big books and predictable books in their classrooms. Detailed ideas for presentation discuss rationale for each strategy and expected outcomes. Presented in this well-organized resource are suggestions for utilizing picture storybooks to define, discuss, and identify examples of 30 literary devices such as allusion, caricature, hyperbole, irony, poetic justice, reverse stereotype, and parody.
Introductory chapters analyze different types of textual and illustrative interaction.
An extensive source list cross-references numerous picture storybooks with their corresponding literary devices. Index of titles. Index of authors, titles, and devices.