Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name:
Book Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Author: Shel Silverstein
Genre: Children’s Poetry
Illustrator: Shel Silverstein
Publisher/Year: Harper & Row/1974
Evaluate the Book for the following elements
Style and Language: Using examples for the book, explain the following: Word choices, dialogue,
rhythm, rhyme, and sentence length. Share unexpected insights or interesting information the reader
learns from this story. (5 points)
All the poems in the books were short sweet and detailed. Just enough to know what was going on in
each on. Very descriptive and interesting, where you wanted to keep reading until you got to the end.
I like band aids know all the places they were put even though there were no sores or scrapes.

Character: With examples from the book, provide the following- (5 points)
Who is the main character?
How can the reader relate to the character?
Who are the supporting characters?
There’s in no main character through out the whole book but in the poem ‘Pancakes is was Grace
who wanted the pancake on top. Anyone can relate because when you get the one on top it’s the
freshest and you get it first.
Supporting character would be Graces cousin Teresa who wanted the pancake in the middle.

Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)

Just a collection of short poems that include imagination like, Ickle me, pickle me, tickle me too
flying in a shoe and in walk the plank based on pirates commanding a boy to walk the plank. Even
Hector the collector of all the many things he likes to keep.

Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)

Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
I don’t think there is a specific place and time just a book that can be relatable to any reader or
person.
Main message in Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out would be to not wait
until it piles up and take it out as soon as possible to avoid the huge mess.
Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2 points)
It is a combination or realism and surrealism.

Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk): (2 points)
All the small illustrations were pen.
Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the illustrations: (3)
Line: Many lines to create each picture of each poem
Shapes: Simple shapes throughout the larger poems with more description
Color: No color, but if you imagine the colors on your own there’s a plethora of colors with the trash
and the collectables.
Texture: Although the illustrations don’t provide much texture the pictures look and have you felt
like they have so much texture to help create the image in your mind
Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space, and all pages the
same or different). (3)
Very blank and simple drawings. Whether it be a small person or a small scene from a line in the
poem there was not a lot of background or back drop images and texture.

Child Development Theory: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social Emotional to describe the
connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)

Social-Emotional Development:
Identify the age: _______6-11__________________
Explain the social development for this age and how the book relates
to the emotional level you chose:
There are many points in the book where even though you may feel defeated that its okay. Band-aids
although there are no cuts or sores band-aids just seem to help whatever it may be on the inside.
Shadow wash where you cleanse yourself and start a new chapter in your life possibly but relates it to
clothes.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: ______2________

Why?
Although the book can be read to younger children the poems seem to be read with even a deeper
meaning that even as an adult could be something completely different than another reading it.
 Book Extension Activity

Your Name: Shade Evans

Book Title: The Underwear Salesman and other jobs for better or Verse

Book Author: J Patrick Lewis

Publisher: Athenum Books for Young Children

Date: 6/28/2020

1. Pre-K/CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standard

1.PK.1 Identify words that rhyme.

1.PK.2 Identify the beginning sound of own name
1.PK.3 Identify letters in own name.

2. Objectives (What will children expect to learn?)

How to rhyme words and be able to identify similar words that rhyme with words in the book.
Continuing to identify their name and words with the same first letter of their name.

3. Materials and Equipment needed:

Each child’s name printed on paper

White board and white board markers magnets for names
Rhyming words from the book (preferred)

4. Teaching (What will you do?)

After reading to book talk about how the words sound like one another. Show children some
words printed from the book and what makes them sound similar and why. Continue talking
about the letters and have them recite the letters in their own names and continue to show word
with the same letter that start with each child’s name.

5. Closure:
Talk to children about what words sound the same and rhyme with other words.
Speak about letters and the letters in their own name and similar letters that start with their name
to continue onto maybe even words that rhyme with their name.