9) When A Dragon Moves In
Written by: Jodi
Moore
Illustrated by:
Howard McWilliam
Scholastic, Inc.
2011
28 pages
Picture Book
I picked
this book up because I’m slowly realizing my book preferences as a girl, and
felt like I should buy a book for the boys in my future classes. It turned out
to be a great book for either gender! It is about a family who goes to the
beach for a day. The little boy builds a perfect sandcastle, and imagines all
the things that would happen if a dragon moved in. His dragon gets him in
trouble for different things all day long, and he finally gets fed up. They go
home and the little boy vows to never build a perfect sandcastle again…until
tomorrow. We find out that really, there wasn’t a dragon, the little boy is
just misbehaving and blaming it on his “imaginary friend”.
Each
picture in the book really captures the “beachy” feel. The illustrations in the
book are drawn with a pencil and then colored with acrylic paint. Everything is
very colorful and gives a cartoon representation of all characters and
activities. Some pictures take up an entire page. Other pages contain two,
three, or four different illustrations. That kept the book interesting!
I would use
this book in a classroom up to fourth grade. It is a little too juvenile for
older students, but would be a good read aloud for younger ones. They could
even read it during free reading. It is a good story to help teach the fantasy
genre. You could use it in a lesson about chronological order, as well.
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