If You’re a Monster and You Know It
Written by:
Rebecca Emberley
Illustrated
by: Ed Emberley
Orchard
Books
2010
32 pages
Poetry
I chose this book from the library
shelf because of the colorful illustrations and creative writing adapted into
singing. If You’re a Monster and You Know It is a ballad poem written to the
tune of the classic children’s song If You’re Happy and You Know It. This book is written for young children to
move and sign along as the story is read.
Throughout the book the author uses onomatopoeia such growl, stomp,
snort, smack, twitch, roar. The book is
written to encourage humor and repetition of movements. The book even has a free download for the
song at www.scholastic.com.
The
illustrations in this book are illustrated by the author’s father, Ed Emberley.
The artwork was created using Freehand. This must be a type of collage
technique. The illustrations were
created used what looks like neon-colored paper on top of a black
background. The display text for the
book was set in Decaying Kuntry. The
text on the pages was set in Iron Latch.
The text placement for the book is both formal text placement and very
informal text placement. Some pages have
the text above the pictures and some pages have the words in a different font all
across the page in between the illustrations at different angles. The illustrations are used as double-page
spreads.
This
book is appropriate for young children in preschool, kindergarten, or possibly
first grade. This book is simple enough
to catch their attention and encourage some fun by memorizing phrases and
singing along with the teacher. I would
use this book to talk about onomatopoeia sounds. Also, this book can be an example of a book
that is based upon a song and is meant to be sung. Talking about rhythm and repetition are other
areas that can be discussed. I liked
this book because this would be a fun book to do with small children. They love to sing and participate in books
read aloud. This books has won no
awards.
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