Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth
Author: Alison McGhee
Illustrator: Harry Bliss
Publisher:Sandpiper
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: Humor-Children's Book
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: Rated a 3 on Horn Book
Summary: First day of first grade is always scary but is even scarier when your told that your new teacher wants your teeth. This story is a humorous story about a first time first grader's journey to the first day of school.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth rated a 3 on Horn Book Reviews. The review retells the story and helps to make the realization of how this story can help transitioning kindergarteners understand the comfort moving on through humorous words and illustrations.
Review by Alicia Watson: Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth is a humorous story helping young children understand that sometimes there are rumors that aren't true. The mood of the story changes from humor to suspenseful through the series of events. Bliss does a great job connecting the illustrations to the written text through using bright, clear photographs of the characters involved. The structure of the written text, helps students stay intrigued and excited to see what is coming next.
This book would be useful when teaching…
Illustrator: Harry Bliss
Publisher:Sandpiper
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: Humor-Children's Book
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews rating: Rated a 3 on Horn Book
Summary: First day of first grade is always scary but is even scarier when your told that your new teacher wants your teeth. This story is a humorous story about a first time first grader's journey to the first day of school.
Summary of Professional Reviews: Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth rated a 3 on Horn Book Reviews. The review retells the story and helps to make the realization of how this story can help transitioning kindergarteners understand the comfort moving on through humorous words and illustrations.
Review by Alicia Watson: Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth is a humorous story helping young children understand that sometimes there are rumors that aren't true. The mood of the story changes from humor to suspenseful through the series of events. Bliss does a great job connecting the illustrations to the written text through using bright, clear photographs of the characters involved. The structure of the written text, helps students stay intrigued and excited to see what is coming next.
This book would be useful when teaching…
- Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth can be used at the end of the kindergarten year in order to encourage transitioning students who may be frightened to move on. Understanding humor and connecting literature to personal feelings, can help students relate to topics that are occurring in their life. The students can record their feelings at that point of time in the year.