Picture Book 11

A.    Author: Lois Ehlert

B.     Title: Market Day   A Story Told With Folk Art

C.     Illustrator: Lois Ehlert

D.    Readability: 2.1

E.     Genre: Realistic  

F.      Subgenre: Fiction

G.    Theme: Farm Life, Market

H.    Primary and secondary characters: Boy and Girl

I.       Award(s) date of publication:  

J.       Publishing company: Harcourt Inc.

K.    ISBN number: 0-15-202158-2

L.     Brief summary: This story is a families journey from farm to market then market to home. How they have to pick tomatoes and carrots. The story tells us of all the creatures who inhabit the lands along the way to the market. The families play at the market and make their livings at the market.

M.   Description of how you would use the book with students: I would use this because it is a rhyming book but it also shows students that you don’t always have to get produce and nicknaks at stores, you can go to a market! I can also ask them what they could bring to the market and we could make a pretend market and show how to tie into math by making change and purchasing things we put in our markets.