I'm in Charge of Celebrations |
Publication Information
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Author: Baylor, Bird |
Illustrator: Parnall, Peter |
Title: I'm in Charge of Celebrations |
Date: 1986 |
Publisher: Scribner's |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 0-684-18579-2 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
fiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
A desert (Native American?) woman is asked if she is lonely and replies by telling about all the natural wonders she witnesses. The title comes from her idea of marking the calendar for the following year to celebrate whatever she saw. The illustrations show the narrator to be a teenage girl, but her age is not significant to the text. The author uses a fair amount of text for a picture book, although the vocabulary is simple. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This type of free verse would be easy to imitate (although hard to do well). It could be part of a unit on the environment or a unit on solitude vs. loneliness or a unit on self-esteem. Or, since it evokes a strong sense of place, it could be used as part of a regional or geographic unit. Teachers may ask students to make a list of their celebrations, to discuss them, and perhaps to write a poem or song about them. |
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