Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: ​Montserrat Navarro

Book Title: ​Remarkably You

Author & Illustrator: ​Pat Zietlow Miller and Patrice Barton

Genre: ​Multicultural

Publisher/Year: ​Harper Collins / 2019

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: bookish, unparalleled flair, speller, rope-jumping queen

Dialogue: none

Rhythm: loud, crowd, shy, by, sprout, about grown, own, size, surprise,
smart, start, fray, dya, prize, wise

Sentence Length: 2-3 short sentences 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:​ ​You

The book is very relatable because the characters are children and the
book is in 1st POV which helps students relate even more.

Supporting characters: children

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

The story is about affirmations about YOU and how it is okay to be you.

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 a community throughout the day.

Theme: Be who you are!

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:​ sprinkler, water, hair, trees

Shapes:​ circles: balloons, wheels, seeds rectangle: building

Color:​ green orange yellow

Texture: ​pants, brick wall, grass, t-shirt

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 a few sentences 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: ​7-8 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 emphasizes
on the importance of being who you are. It makes children feel like they
are not alone and there are people who are the same way as them.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: _______​3​______

Why?

This book is so beautiful. When I read it, it’s like saying affirmations. I love
how unique each character looks and how the book reminds the reader of
how they are courageous and special and it is okay to be who you are.