There is a lot of educating going on in the my school district and, one would hope, the rest of the country as well, around "point of view".
This is the first of two books that I've had the opportunity to hear read to first and second graders in the past seven days on the topic. Both are wonderful but offer two different approaches to the subject.
Buy this book and buy it right now.
This first is this brilliantly written and illustrated Do You Believe in Unicorns by Bethanie Deeney Murgula and I'm going to be very careful here because I don't want to spoil a single thing for you.
The book is written in a very creative way that both asks the reader if they believe in unicorns and offers explanations for what the spot-on perfect illustrations are showing (or not showing) the reader. I watched a second grade class of 21 students go full on debate club discussing the book from their individual points of view. Boys and girls alike were completely engaged in the debate. They were actively making predictions, offering alternate or additional explanations and thinking deeply about what they were seeing/hearing. There were a lot of, "but it could also be this..." moments in the room. Time was spent on each page as additional information, predictions and explanations were offered by a fully engaged class of seven and eight year olds attacking this book, its pictures and text.
In a world were we are moving rapidly towards an "if I'm right you have to be wrong" state of affairs what better than to teach students how wrong that can be.
I'm not sure if I said it before but....BUY THIS BOOK!
Illustrator: by the author
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763694681
ISBN-13: 978-0763694685
Date: 2018
Publisher: Candlewick
Price: $8.79 (as of the time of this post)
Where to buy: Amazon
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