Picture Book 12

A.    Author: Jan Carr

B.     Title: Splish, Splash, Spring

C.     Photographs: Dorothy Donohue

D.    Readability: 1.6

E.      Genre: Realistic

F.      Subgenre: Poetry  

G.    Theme: Spring

H.    Primary and secondary characters: 3 Friends  

I.       Award(s) date of publication:  

J.       Publishing company: Holiday House

K.    ISBN number:00-03605

L.     Brief summary: On a sloppy spring day, three friends run out and play. The sun comes out and the children play hide and seek with the frogs. The friends dig up worms and feed slugs to baby birds. Then the children play with their kites, running down the field, the kites get tangled and the children fall. As the day progresses the rain begins to move back in, the children race back to their house to dry off.  

M.Description of how you would use the book with students: This would be an excellent book to use with students when discussing spring. It also would be perfect to help students understand rhyming words.  Students can also be interactive with this, showing sequencing, they could draw pictures of rain, then they can move on to the sun and the activities that the children did in the sunshine, lastly, the end of the book with the rain again.