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conulyGenre: Realistic Ficton?
Age Appropriateness: Primary
Media: Watercolor
Review: This story is about a family who is having a baby. The parents get lost on their way to the hospital and end up at the zoo. Instead of their human baby, they brought home an alligator. They go back to the zoo two more times trying to find their baby and bring home the wrong one, so their daughter goes to the zoo and finds the right baby. The mothers of the other animals come looking for their babies and break down part of the house, but in the end all appropriate mothers have their babies and the daughter saved the day.
Age Appropriateness: Primary
Media: Watercolor
Review: This story is about a family who is having a baby. The parents get lost on their way to the hospital and end up at the zoo. Instead of their human baby, they brought home an alligator. They go back to the zoo two more times trying to find their baby and bring home the wrong one, so their daughter goes to the zoo and finds the right baby. The mothers of the other animals come looking for their babies and break down part of the house, but in the end all appropriate mothers have their babies and the daughter saved the day.
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<i>Genre: Realistic Ficton?
Age Appropriateness: Primary
Media: Watercolor
Review: This story is about a family who is having a baby. The parents get lost on their way to the hospital and end up at the zoo. Instead of their human baby, they brought home an alligator. They go back to the zoo two more times trying to find their baby and bring home the wrong one, so their daughter goes to the zoo and finds the right baby. The mothers of the other animals come looking for their babies and break down part of the house, but in the end all appropriate mothers have their babies and the daughter saved the day. <b?This story could be seen as realistic fiction because the animals do not talk or anything and it is possible that a family could bring the wrong baby home, but it is hardly likely that they would bring a zoo animal home.</b></i>
I feel sorry for whoever's students these are, because their set-in-stone genres that they talk about are <i>not</i> going to work for picture books.
I'm starting to think about how I'd divide picture books, actually. I think I'd sort them by "dreamy" and "wordless" and "early reader" and "issues" and "alphabet" myself. It works better than fantasy or not.
Age Appropriateness: Primary
Media: Watercolor
Review: This story is about a family who is having a baby. The parents get lost on their way to the hospital and end up at the zoo. Instead of their human baby, they brought home an alligator. They go back to the zoo two more times trying to find their baby and bring home the wrong one, so their daughter goes to the zoo and finds the right baby. The mothers of the other animals come looking for their babies and break down part of the house, but in the end all appropriate mothers have their babies and the daughter saved the day. <b?This story could be seen as realistic fiction because the animals do not talk or anything and it is possible that a family could bring the wrong baby home, but it is hardly likely that they would bring a zoo animal home.</b></i>
I feel sorry for whoever's students these are, because their set-in-stone genres that they talk about are <i>not</i> going to work for picture books.
I'm starting to think about how I'd divide picture books, actually. I think I'd sort them by "dreamy" and "wordless" and "early reader" and "issues" and "alphabet" myself. It works better than fantasy or not.
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Date: 2009-11-21 07:30 pm (UTC)We can only hope.
I think I'll add "folk tale" to that list (including stories that aren't traditional but that consciously are written to sound that way). I mean, there are ways to divide up picture books - but fantasy and realistic and mystery and sci-fi and Real Literature aren't it.
Sorry for just repeating both of us there. I like to comment, but sometimes lack for what to say.