Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: ​Montserrat Navarro

Book Title: ​Water Can Be

Author & Illustrator: ​Laura Purdie Salas & Violeta Dabija

Genre: ​Informational

Publisher/Year: ​Millbrook Press ™ / 2014

Evaluate the Book for the following elements

Style and Language:​ Using examples for the book, explain the following:
Word choices, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme and sentence length. Share
unexpected insights or interesting information the reader learns from this
story. (5 points)

Word Choice: “drink-er” “snuffer”

Dialogue: none

Rhythm: sea, free hatcher, catcher feeder, speeder soaker, cloaker

Sentence Length: about 2 words per page.

Character:​ With examples from the book, provide the following- (5 points)

Who is the main character?

How can the reader relate to the character?

Who are the supporting characters?

Main character: Water

There is no character besides the topic being water but children can
relate by already knowing some of the ways water can be.

Supporting characters: none

Plot:​ Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)

This story is informational about different ways water is used.

Setting​: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)

Theme:​ What is the main message of this book? (2 points)

This book takes place in an ocean, school, river

Water is used in so many ways.

Illustration​: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories

Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon

art)? (2 points)

Cartoon art

Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons,

acrylic, chalk): (2 points)

Oil watercolors

Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in
the illustrations: (3)

Line:​ trees, jellyfish tentacles

Shapes: ​circles for tadpoles, heads, clouds

Color:​ red, yellow, blue

Texture: ​water, sprinklers, hair

Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and

dark space and all pages the same or different). (3)

Picture takes up the whole page and about two words per page.

Child Development Theory​: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social

Emotional to describe the connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)
Emotional Development:

Identify the age: ​5-7 years old

Explain the social development for this age and how the book relates

to the emotional level you chose:

At this age, Piaget refers to it as Preoperational as children understand

the world through language and mental images. This story gives several
examples of ways water is used, its informational for children to learn the
many uses.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: _______​3​______

Why?

This book was simple and fast to read, yet very informational about how
water is used. I loved the imagery and how a child the age of 5 can
understand it and analyze the forms of water.