Picture Book 10

A.    Author: Kathryn E. Lewis

B.     Title: Carrots Don’t Talk

C.     Illustrator: JoAnn Kitchel

D.    Readability: Cannot find

E.     Genre: Fantasy

F.      Subgenre: Fiction

G.    Theme: Carrots

H.    Primary and secondary characters: Boy and Girl

I.       Award(s) date of publication:  

J.       Publishing company: Silver Burdett Ginn Inc

K.    ISBN number: 0-663-59389-1

L.     Brief summary: A boy and a girl were playing in the field. The boy said he was hungry so he went to the garden to pull out a carrot. Every time he pulled the carrot cried “Do not eat me.”  The boy then heard a dog talk, then a tree. He ran back to the girl to tell her of his findings. The girl told him that it was time for him to go to bed. The boy went back home and the girl had her apple, and was about to take a bite out of her apple and the apple makes a joke, the girl looked stunned!

M.   Description of how you would use the book with students: I would use this in my class to start a project. I would have a food or an inanimate object talk and they would have to work on writing a story, short like this book. It helps with having students work on sentence structure and