Can I have a Stegosaurus, Mom? Can I? Please!? is a book about a little boy who begs and pleads with his mom for a stegosaurus. He gives his mom reasons as to why he needs one, like protection from scary monsters, a trick-or-treat buddy and so he won't have to eat his vegetables. He gives all these reasons because he found a gigantic eggs in the forest and has been sitting on it waiting for it to hatch. By the end of the story the egg hatches AND....... it's not a stegosaurus! What will he be begging for instead?
I think that this is a cute book for kids with very imaginitive children language. I think that it will be relatable to children because when they want something they can come up with some of the best reasons as to why and this book captures that.
I think that this book could be used as an introduction to a creative writing unit. Through the whole book every page starts with "Can I have a stegosaurus, mom? Can I? PLEASE!? If I had a stegosaurus, mom..." (Grambling, NP). You could read the story and then have the children use the beginning part to come up with their own reason as to why they would need a stegosaurus. You could also let them choose what to put ask for instead of a stegosaurus.
The drawing in the book are also very cool. They are very soft pencil drawings with muted colors. The illustrations give the effect like you are dreaming.
I'm sure that I have a lot of "Please Mom, can I?" in my parenting future (for now its a pretty adament squeal)! This sounds like a really fun book and now I'm interested in knowing what actually hatched! I liked your idea of the creative writing assignment. I think that kids would be eager to share their ideas.
ReplyDeleteThis does sounds like an engaging book. I liked your idea of using it as a mentor text for a writing unit.
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