by Christy Landreth, Drury University
This WebQuest is designed to allow students the opportunity to evaluate children's books, finding what style, figurative language, illustrations, and techniques, they find most effective. They will research these authors and illustrators to help choose a writing style, as well as an illustration style for the children's book they will create.
Introduction
Yertle the Turtle ...And Yertle the Turtle, the king of the trees, The king of the air and the birds and the bees, The king of a house and a cow and a mule... Well, that was the end of the Turtle King's rule! For Yertle, the King of all Sala-ma-Sond, Fell off his high throne and fell Plunk! in the pond!
Artemis Fowl...The warning was lost on Artemis. He was already somewhere else. A familiar electric buzz was crackling over his skin. This was the beginning of something. He could feel it.
Gertrude McFuzz...For there was another young bird that she knew, A fancy young birdie named Lolla-Lee-Lou, And instead of one feather behind, she had two! Poor Gertrude! ...This just isn't fair! I have one! She has two! I MUST have a tail just like Lolla-Lee-Lou
Why do we love our favorite children's story? What is Figurative Language? What makes these stories so vivid and fun to read? What kind of pictures make these stories so exciting to see as the pages turn?
*Let's create our own stories after we decide what it is that makes a story great in our eyes!