Title: Beatrice's Goat
Author: Page McBrier
Illustrator: Lori Lohstoeter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Year of Publication: 2001
Genre: Children's non-fiction
Horn Book Rating: 3
Summary:
Beatrice's Goat was a story about a poor girl from Africa who receives a goat as a present. Beatrice sells the goat's milk in order to raise money for her to go to school and she ends up raising enough for her to go to school.
Summary of Professional Reviews:
The author and illustrator being sent to Beatrice's village had a huge impact on the illustrations in the story. The illustrations were drawn to look just like her village actually looks. This gives the story an authentic feel because this is what her village actually looks like. This book gives us an inside look to life in this African Village while bringing us a great message.
Review by Anthony Germani:
This book has excellent illustrations to go along with a great story. Throughout the story the author makes you sympathize with Beatrice by making you feel sad for her because she doesn't have enough money to go to school. The author did a great job of capturing emotions, this book had me feeling every emotion. First I was sad that Beatrice didn't have enough money to go to school and then I was happy to see that her had work paid off and she got to go to school.The illustrations brought this book together which really made you feel the emotions I was talking about.
This book would be useful when teaching:
This book would be great to introduce a chapter on culture in Africa. This would make for a great social studies lesson because students could see the difference between the culture here and the African culture. This would give the students an inside look on to what the African culture is like.
Beatrice's Goat was a story about a poor girl from Africa who receives a goat as a present. Beatrice sells the goat's milk in order to raise money for her to go to school and she ends up raising enough for her to go to school.
Summary of Professional Reviews:
The author and illustrator being sent to Beatrice's village had a huge impact on the illustrations in the story. The illustrations were drawn to look just like her village actually looks. This gives the story an authentic feel because this is what her village actually looks like. This book gives us an inside look to life in this African Village while bringing us a great message.
Review by Anthony Germani:
This book has excellent illustrations to go along with a great story. Throughout the story the author makes you sympathize with Beatrice by making you feel sad for her because she doesn't have enough money to go to school. The author did a great job of capturing emotions, this book had me feeling every emotion. First I was sad that Beatrice didn't have enough money to go to school and then I was happy to see that her had work paid off and she got to go to school.The illustrations brought this book together which really made you feel the emotions I was talking about.
This book would be useful when teaching:
This book would be great to introduce a chapter on culture in Africa. This would make for a great social studies lesson because students could see the difference between the culture here and the African culture. This would give the students an inside look on to what the African culture is like.