Big Mama Makes the World
Publication Information
Author:  Root, Phyllis	Illustrator:  Oxenbury, Helen
Title:  Big Mama Makes the World	Date:  2002
Publisher:  Candlewick	City:  Cambridge, MA
ISBN, paperback:  0763611328	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    legends, tales, and myths, fiction
HSE Descriptor(s):
Summary:
A simple text and colorful illustrations retell the creation story with a mother as the creator. Some readers might be offended by the non-traditional creation story. Others could find the illustrations childish.
Teaching Ideas:
This book could be used in a small text set on creation myths for a discussion of similarities and differences. Readers should enjoy discussing and writing about the differences that a mother-creater makes in the creation story. Learners could re-write the myth with a child as the creator. What would change? Teachers might use the author's comment on the origin of the story (back flap of the book jacket) as a writing prompt for students to tell their stories.
Teaching Strategies:
Book Conversations    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf
Discussion Webs    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/discussion_webs.pdf
Helping Students in the Writing Process    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf
Venn Diagrams    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Family > mothers > mother-child relationships Literature and Language > mythology Literature and Language > storytelling Religion/Philosophy > creation myths

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