Title: This Is Sadie
Author: Sara O'Leary
Illustrator: Julie Morstad
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Awards: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Picture Books (2015) & Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize Nominee (2016)
Ages: 2nd and up
Summary:
This book introduces us to Sadie, a young girl with a large imagination. The reader gets to see lots of different things that sadie likes to imagine. She is on a boat sailing across the sees, she's a mermaid deep in the ocean, or a snail on a leaf. Sadie loves stories and shares her imaginative stories with the reader.
Illustrator: Julie Morstad
Genre: Modern Fantasy
Awards: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Picture Books (2015) & Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize Nominee (2016)
Ages: 2nd and up
Summary:
This book introduces us to Sadie, a young girl with a large imagination. The reader gets to see lots of different things that sadie likes to imagine. She is on a boat sailing across the sees, she's a mermaid deep in the ocean, or a snail on a leaf. Sadie loves stories and shares her imaginative stories with the reader.
Illustrations:
This picture story book makes wonderful use of space. When the reader sees Sadie she is sitting in a box, or in a bathtub, or somewhere else plain and real. The pages have lots of empty white space only showing a small image. However, when we see inside Sadie's imagination the reader sees the giant ship sailing in the sea or a deep ocean filled with fish and mermaids. The pages are full of color and no space is left white.
In the classroom:
Students will enjoy this story because it reassures them that stories and creativity are valuable. Students can create stories from nothing at all, just like Sadie. This book encourages creativity and curiosity. Students would definitely enjoy reading about Sadie's adventures and creating some of their own.
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