Title: Red Wagon
Author: Renata Liwska
Illustrator: Renata Liwska
Publisher: The Penguin Group
Year of Publication: 2011
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews Rating: Horn Book-2, Kirkus Starred Review
Summary: Lucy, a fox, wants to play with her brand new wagon. Before she is allowed, her mother asks her to use her wagon to get vegetables from the market.
Summary of Professional Reviews: The Horn Book Reviews rated Red Wagon a 2. While Lucy is running errands, she uses her wagon to create imaginary adventures. Horn Book believes that the "soft-hued pencil illustrations imaginatively enhance the straight forward text."
Review By Lauren Miller: Lucy wanted to have fun and play with her new wagon. Her mother asks her to complete the mundane chore of going to the market. The author turned this dull task into exciting adventures, simply through her illustrations. The drawings were light in color and brought more meaning to the text. For example, when it begins to rain, Lucy uses her wagon as a boat, sailing through the ocean. I found the ending ironic. The last page says, "Finally, Lucy was free to play with her wagon," when in reality, she played with it throughout the entire story.
This book would be useful when teaching:
Author: Renata Liwska
Illustrator: Renata Liwska
Publisher: The Penguin Group
Year of Publication: 2011
Genre: Fiction
Horn Book or Kirkus Reviews Rating: Horn Book-2, Kirkus Starred Review
Summary: Lucy, a fox, wants to play with her brand new wagon. Before she is allowed, her mother asks her to use her wagon to get vegetables from the market.
Summary of Professional Reviews: The Horn Book Reviews rated Red Wagon a 2. While Lucy is running errands, she uses her wagon to create imaginary adventures. Horn Book believes that the "soft-hued pencil illustrations imaginatively enhance the straight forward text."
Review By Lauren Miller: Lucy wanted to have fun and play with her new wagon. Her mother asks her to complete the mundane chore of going to the market. The author turned this dull task into exciting adventures, simply through her illustrations. The drawings were light in color and brought more meaning to the text. For example, when it begins to rain, Lucy uses her wagon as a boat, sailing through the ocean. I found the ending ironic. The last page says, "Finally, Lucy was free to play with her wagon," when in reality, she played with it throughout the entire story.
This book would be useful when teaching:
- A lesson on using your imagination. The students could create their own stories using their imagination like Lucy did in the story.