Fiction Evaluation Form

(Picture Books, Folklore, Modern Fantasy, Contemporary Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Multicultural Books)

Your Name: Daisy Martinez Book Title: Finding Winnie

Author: Lindsay Mattick Illustrator: Sophie Blackall

Genre: Fiction Publisher/Year: Little, Brown Book for Young Readers

EVALUATE THE BOOK USING THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS

STYLE and Language: Explain the language used – word choices, sentence length, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme.
Explain unexpected insights or interesting information the reader learns from the story. Give examples form
the book for each one:
Word choice: Familiar language with some extended vocabulary words
Sentence length: Pages with short and very long sentences
Dialogue: Third person
Rhythm: Nice slow rhythm
Rhyme: Very little rhyming words “how/cow and train/rain
Insights/interesting information: “There was a war far, far away-beyond the end of the country.”

CHARACTER – Who is the main character? Explain the character’s personality traits. How can the reader
relate to the character, become involved in the story?
Who are the supporting characters? Give examples of each from the book.

Main character: Winnie the Bear

Personality traits: Remarkable and disciplined
How reader can relate to main character: Readers can relate by feeling how Harry felt when leaving for war. He
felt homesick and found something to bring him comfort and remind him of home.
Supporting characters: Harry and soldiers

1. PLOT: (Explains the major events in the story.) Summarize the plot

Harry rescued a baby bear when he was on his way to World War l. He named the bear Winnie after
his hometown Winnipeg. Harry taught Winnie all the drills the soldiers learned. Harry drove Winnie to
a zoo as he wanted to keep her safe as they were going to France, and it would not be safe.

2. SETTING – Explain the place and time of the book.

THEME- What is the story’s theme or lesson?

Setting: Day time /World war l

Theme: Putting your loved one’s safety first

ILLUSTRATION –Analyze the illustrations in the book (see Chapter 4 for details on the categories below.)
Choose a 2-page spread in the book to answer the following:
What Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)?
-Style of the book is cartoon art
Illustration and Text: explain how illustration and text combined to tell the story.
Then, explain what illustrations show that text does not explain?
The text contains a lot of information, and the picture does not illustrate the whole information on
each page

Page design --Describe:

The Borders: White boarders
Use of white/dark space: Use of very little white space. Pages throughout the book are mostly full of
illustration
Text placement: Top, middle, and bottom
Font size: Small
Placement of illustrations: Full center page and sides of the pages

3. CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES – CHOOSE 2 of theories below and evaluate the book according to the
developmental theories. (How the book fits the developmental stage and age?)

PIAGET-COGNITIVE-INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage: Preoperational and the age: 2 to 7 years_____

Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage: Rapid development of friendship

Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage:
-“I know you want to come, buys it’s safe.”
-“It’s the most important thing, really. Even if we’re apart, I’ll always love you. You’ll always be my
Bear.”

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Name the stage: Industry VS Inferiority and the age: School-Age_____

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage: Learn and master new physical skills

Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage:
-“She might have been the best navigator in the whole army. If you hid something, could she find it?
She could!"

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age __________________________________
Explain ONE emotional development trait for this age:

Give examples from the book to illustrate that emotional development trait and this age: