Title: Dear Hot Dog
Author and Illustrator: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN #: 978-0-8109-9732-5
Brief Summary: This is a book about every day things as if they were alive! Written as poems, the author introduces you to things that children see throughout their day and tells you what those things are thinking! In this book you can read about the adventures of toes, a toothbrush, pants and of course, a hot dog.
Evaluation: This book put a clever twist on personification, a common way of thinking for young children in Piaget's per-operational phase. Each poem explains the life and thoughts of these not so inanimate objects that children come across everyday! The pictures were drawn with scribbles, out of the lines, as if children had drawn them. At one point the formating of the words was completely turned on its side so the kids have to twist the book in order to read the words. So not only were the poems creative, but the formatting of the book was as well. This makes the book a lot more interactive! My favorite part about this book was its bright and vivid colors. I highly recommend this book to any child or poem lover!
Rating: 5 out of 5 hot dogs!
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