Monday, June 18, 2012

Picture Book 13


A.    Author: Michele Benoit Slawson
B.     Title: Signs For Sale
C.     Photographs: Bagram Ibatoulline
D.    Readability: 3.5
E.      Genre: Realistic
F.      Subgenre:   
G.    Theme: Fathers and Daughters, Selling, History
H.    Primary and secondary characters: Daughter and PaPa
I.       Award(s) date of publication:  
J.       Publishing company: Penguin Books
K.    ISBN number:0-670-03568-8
L.     Brief summary: A traveling sales man and his daughter hit the roads selling neon signs! The daughter takes photos of all the stops, ensuring to get the buyers point of view. They ride through town in their light blue convertible, helping out all their previous buyers and even making a sale to a man who promises he will never buy a neon sign. As the book comes to an end, the daughter aspires to be just like her father, selling millions of signs and making cities light up with enthusiasm.   
M.   Description of how you would use the book with students: This book can be used to tell children to follow their dreams. At the start the drug store owner, would not buy the sign, but because the daughter had careful words and persistence she got her goal! It also can be used when discussing the 1950’s, this story has a traveling salesmen, which today we do not see many if any of. Students can use this to make their own traveling sales and have a presentation that is a pitch of their best idea!          


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