Title:
Gossie
Author:
Olivier Dunrea
Published:
Houghton Mifflin Company
Copyright:
2002
Pages:
32
Category:
Children/Animals
I
choose this book because it was the perfect book for my daughter. My daughter has several favorite things, but her
all-time favorite is shoes. No matter what color or style she has to get them.
Gossie is a gosling, who wears RED BOOTS every day. She wakes up one morning
and discovers they are missing. She looks everywhere, under the hen, her bed,
and in the barn. She searches until she finds them on another gosling foot, her friend
Gertie. Gossie shares one of her
boots with Gertie.
Illustrations
are done in watercolor and cartoon ink by using earth tone colors to make it
look real. Using the watercolor gave a real feel to the character
emphasizing the mood. The text was written in 20-point Shannon.
This
book is appropriate for first grade classrooms and a great beginner
reading book, because of the sight words, usage, and repetition. This book can
be used for character education to show fairness and caring. I would use it to introduce emotions, how happy or sad a person can
be when they have lost their favorite item.
It can be used in science to show connections to farm animals that live
on farms and include the insects too. I loved how the author did not say Gossie
shared with Gertie, but it is illustrated in the book. This book has no honors.
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