Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Joselin Guillen

Book Title: I am Martin Luther King
Author: Brand Meltzer
Genre: Biography
Illustrator: Christopher Eliopoulos
Publisher/Year: penguin young readers Group, 2016
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)
The language of the book is clear, the author use simple words and examples to
explain what was going on in the time of Martin Luther king, such as the protest, the
speech “I have a dream”. I like how the author use bubbles dialogue to express what
Martin feel and says.

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?
Who is the main character? Matin Luther King
How can the reader relate to the character? Matin Luther King is an historical person
who fought for the rights of the African Americans, so I think that people of color can
relate to him because thanks to him Africans Americans have the same rights as
whites
Who are the supporting characters? Parents, wife, daughter, teacher
Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)
This book talks about the life of Matin Luther king, and how him being with a dark
color of skin was treat different, he talks about how black people was treating
without respect and how they have different rights.
Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)
Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
Place: United states
Time 1953- 1968
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)

Acrylic
Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations: (3)
Line: buses, television, stairs.
Shapes: circles, triangles, lines, squares
Color: bright
Texture: soft
Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
all pages the same or different). (3)
Every page has different things, I like that this author use a cartoon art so every page
is different and kind of like a comic

Child Development Theory: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social Emotional to

describe the connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)
Piaget:
Name the stage Formal operation and the age: 12
Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
book to support your choice:

Understand world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reason

Erickson:
Name the stage_____________________ and the age_______________________
Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
book to support your choice:
Emotional Development:
Identify the age: _________________________
Explain the social development for this age and how the book relates
to the emotional level you chose:

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: 3

Why?

I think this book is friendly to kids to understand how people was treat different just
because the color of their skin.