Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

Your Name: Joanna Simon

Book Title: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!
Author: Jon. Scieszka
Genre: Fractured fairy tale picture book
Illustrator: Lane Smith
Publisher/Year: 1989
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 author uses short and simple dialogue using no rhyme. The reader learns the true
story of the wolf when he goes out door to door to get ingredients to finish up a
birthday cake for his grandma.
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?
The main character is the wolf.
The reader is able to relate to the wolf in real-life situations where one side of the
story is often misheard getting misinterpreted.
The supporting character is the pigs.
Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)
The wolf is making a birthday cake for his grandma when he runs out of sugar. He
decides to see who can let him borrow some sugar so he can finish his cake. When he
visits the three pigs they all mistake his sneeze as him trying to blow their houses
down. Everyone in the town finds out and they publish an article calling him the “bad
wolf”.
Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)
Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
In a small neighborhood.
The message of this book is to try hearing both sides of the story before assuming
things that are not what it seems.
Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2
points)
Realism, impressionism, cartoon art
Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk):
(2 points)
pen, acrylic chalk, pencils
Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
illustrations: (3)
Line: curvy, straight
Shapes: circles, square, triangle
Color: dull colors
Texture: rough and patchy
Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
all pages the same or different). (3)
Illustrations take up most of the book on one page there is no illustration. Each page is
different with the same word length.

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 Preoperational and the age 2-7 years
Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
book to support your choice:
Children understand the world through language and mental images. The book does a
great job showing facial expressions in the characters where no text is needed in order
to understand what is going on between the pigs and the wolf.

1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

Your rating of the book: 2

Why?

This book does send out a message going back to the book The Three Little Pigs where
we learn the truth behind the wolf’s intention to blow down three houses. The author
does a good job letting their readers be on their toes to see the end results whether or
not the wolf will finish up his cake.