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A Ball For Daisy (2011)

by Chris Raschka(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

037585861X (ISBN13: 9780375858611)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Schwartz & Wade

review 1: A Ball for Daisy is a wonderful example of how a story can convey feeling strictly through the use of color. The story revolves around a small dog that finds a ball next to him after his nap and goes on an adventure with it at the park. Sadly, the ball is popped but he receives a new one at the end. Raschka does a fantastic job conveying the dog’s mood by using lighter watercolors for happiness and darker purples and blues for when the dog is sad. Each page is filled with color and although the illustrations may be simpler it is very easy to understand what is happening. This would be a great resource to use with young kids when teaching them about different colors and moods. When the colors change on each page the teacher can ask his/her students how they are feeling fr... moreom those colors and how they think the dog is feeling. Raschka, C. (2011). A Ball for Daisy. New York: Shwartz & Wade Books.
review 2: This book represented the best picture book to me because there were no words at all, but the story was told more clearly to me than any other book I read. It was about a dog that was in love with a ball and took it everywhere with him, he slept with it played with it, when on walks with it, the ball was his best friend. His owner and him went to the dog park one day with his ball of course and he was running around playing with his ball when another dog ran up and started playing with the ball too. They both were chasing each other then all of a sudden his ball popped. His owner threw the ball in the garbage and he went home really sad, when he got home he even started crying. That night he slept alone and when he went to the dog park the next day without a ball he was also really sad. Then he noticed the dog that popped his ball the day before, had brought his a new one. They played with it together and then he took it home and ended back as the happy dog he was before. This book let me use my imagination to put my own twist to the way the story was going. I felt the emotion through pictures of what the characters, dogs, were feeling. The definition of a picture book is a book containing many pictures that tells a story without text. That is exactly what this book did to me because I could feel everything the dogs were feeling throughout this story. I also loved how the illustrations weren’t super realistic and they had more of a cartoon look to it, it fit the age level of this book well. The poster I made reflects this book because I drew a dog in the center with a bunch of balls around it because the dog was in love with a ball throughout the whole story, one of which was blue and the other was red. The story also represented kindness because when the dog had his ball popped by another dog, the other dog brought him a new one the next day. That showed how he was being kind to strangers. Another theme that I took out of this book was that things will always be better in the end. Even if you’re faced with something that is hard for you, something good will eventually come out of it. This relates to the story because when the dog got his ball popped he was so upset and went home and moped about it, and then the next day his friend brought him a new ball and he was happy again. The pictorial style had a lot of emotion involved. For example, when the dogs ball popped you could see how he upset he was because he was crying and looking at the ground. The illustrator changed the whole posture of the dog every time he was feeling a different emotion, which is how I followed the story. The pictures in this book were also very cartoon-like which I personally think draws attention to young readers because it keeps them intrigued in what they’re reading. A little kid reading this book through pictures would also be able to identify what’s going on because of how clear the pictures are. This book meets the Caldecott Medal criteria because it recognizes a child audience, which is one of the main standards medal winning books, need to meet. It also set a mood and tone for what was going on in the book through every picture there was. Each page represented a different scene in the book and each time you could completely tell what was going on. In addition, this book was so clear to understand there was never a moment while reading this when I was wondering what was going on, or what a certain picture was about. It all just came right to my brain when I looked at each picture. Those are the types of books I love to read and will also love to share with a classroom of my own one-day. It amazes me how good a book can be that is solely just pictures, and unlike most people in our generation, those are my absolute favorite types of books. Overall, I was very impressed with the way this book was illustrated. Classroom Use: Since this book just consists of pictures i would have my students turn what they're seeing in the book into their own story about what happens. I would give them some kind of handout that has a graphic organizer to make it easier to get their thoughts organized. Genre: Wordless picture bookFormat: Hardcover picture book Reading Level: PreK- 1st gradeTheme: FriendshipTopic: Sharing is caring Gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status: There was no inclusion of any of those topics in this book, it was a wordless picture book about a dog so those aspects weren't apparent in it.Citation: Raschka, C. (2011). A ball for Daisy. New York: Schwartz & Wade Books. less

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