Children’s Literature Evaluation
Your Name: Thuy Trinh
Book Title: Good Night, Sweet Pig
Author: Bailey, Linda
Genre: Picture book
Illustrator: Josee Masse
Publisher/Year: Kids Can/2007
Age group this book is intended for: 2-5 years old
Evaluate the Book for the following elements
Style and Language: (5 points)
Share 3-word choices that will support the intended age group and explain why.
How will the sentence length hold the intended age groups interest?
Share 1 sentence that will define the book for this age group.
Word choices: repeat, count, describe
Repeat: Repeated words help children listen more and help develop language in
speaking.
Count: Counting words help children remember order numbers and increase thinking
ability.
Describe: Descriptive words help children gain more knowledge about the daily
activities that children see.
The sentence length is a bit long but fully describes a character in each sentence, this
gives children an overview of who this character is and what talents they have.
This is an interesting story write about go to sleep of the little pigs, suitable
preschoolers, with the temptation at the height of the pigs' antics being hard to resist
but still having to go to bed.
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: The pig number one
The pigs are so cute. Because they are still little, they love to play and don't want to
go to sleep. They also like to show off their interests and talents, but they understand
that they still have to go to bed at night.
The supporting character: The pig number two to ten
Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)
Pig number one tried to go to sleep but the other pigs, from pig number two to pig
number ten, were take turns entering her room and showing off their talents and
interests. Poor pig number one, the pigs were everywhere in her room, she started
weeping and asked the other pigs “if they would please go away”. They happily took
turns leaving, starting from pig number ten to the last is pig number two. Finally, pig
number one also went to sleep with the wish "good night, sweet pig."
Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)
Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
Setting: the place is the room of pig number one and the time is night because the
title is good night.
Theme: Children have had a long day of learning and playing, and sleep is very
important. When going to bed, children should not use any entertainment activities
anymore, otherwise they will not be able to sleep, which will affect their health and
intelligence.
Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2
points)
Style: Cartoon art
Cartoons is characterized by its use of exaggerated features and bright colors. The
illustrations in this story are colorful and very bright.
Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk):
(2 points)
Media choice is painterly. It uses paints, pen, crayons, oils watercolors.
Give 3 examples of how the illustration will hold a child’s attention.
(3 Points)
The little pig wearing a nightgown is so cute, children will be
curious and pay attention to whether the pig sleeps well or not.
The second illustration is the picture when all the pigs are everywhere in the room.
This is a colorful picture, it make children feel a bustle and excitement like a festival.
The third illustration is the last page of the story when the pig number one close her
eyes. This helps children understand that no matter how happy they are, it's time for
bed, they have to sleep.
Page design-placement of the illustrations: Describe how the placement of the
illustration will support children’s interest. (3)
The placement of the illustration of the illustrations really brings surprise and
excitement to children. Because each illustration has a certain humor, and the
number of characters increases in each succeeding picture with a count of one to ten
as they appear and decreases from ten to one as they leave one after another. The
illustration has fully drawn the props the pigs use to demonstrate their interests and
talents.
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: Pre-operational and the age: from 2- 7 years old
During this stage, children's thinking is not yet logical or concrete, and they struggle
with concepts like cause and effect. They also have difficulty understanding other
people's perspectives, their thinking is still centered on their own world view. For
example, in the story, The other pigs did not notice that the pig number one wanted
to go to sleep, they did as they pleased. Maybe they think that their actions create a
joyful and not the cause of disturb for others.
1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended
Your rating of the book: 3
Why? This is a story that helps children learn math, count numbers in order, and at
the same time help them have a comprehensive view of the world that everyone has a
talent, but we must respect others and their time.
Book Extension Activity (25 points):
Must be the same story as your evaluation.
Your Name: Thuy Trinh
Book Title: Good night sweet pig
Book Author: Bailey, Linda
Age range for this activity: 3-5 years old
Date: 22 October, 2023
1. Infant/Toddler/Pre-K/CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standard (5 points)
(List the actual standard that will support your activity)
1.PK.4a Count to 10
1.PK.4b Count to 10 by demonstrating one to one correspondence using
objects.
L.PK.6 Identify animals and their homes
1.PK.1 Identify words that rhyme
1.PK.3 Identify letters in own name
2.PK.3 Identify pictures to aid in comprehension.
4.PK.5b Respond to or ask a question about an event, text, or picture.
7.PK.3 Listen with increasing attention span to gain new vocabulary.
8.PK.3b Speak in complete sentences using at least three words.
2.Objectives (What will children expect to learn?) (5 points)
Students can follow instructions.
Students can distinguish colors.
Students can count sequentially from one to ten and from ten to one in
order.
Students can recognize numbers from one to ten.
3. Materials and Equipment needed: (5 points)
Video: Good Night, Sweet Pig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujM8GuZa7ns
Video: Counting 1-10 Song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR-cfDsHCGA
Pencils, crayon, color pencils
Sheets of paper with shape of numbers form one to ten
to trace and color.
4. Teaching (What will you do?) (5 points)
Ask student seat on their chair at their table.
Give each student a sheet of paper with shape of numbers.
Ask student count from one to ten and ten to one together.
Ask student take a pencil to trace number first.
Ask student use crayon or color pencils to color shape of number
Ask student color one color for one number.
5. Closure: (2 points)
Collect the sheet of paper
Watch video: Counting 1-10 Song
Watch video: Good Night, Sweet Pig
6. List 3 additional books in this genre to extend the learning: (3 points)
The Water Hole by author Graeme Base (2001)
Chicka Chicka 123 by Authors: Bill Martin Jr. Michael Sampson, and
illustrator: Lois Ehlert . (2004).
Click, Clack, Splish, Splash by author: Doreen Cronin, Illustrator :Betsy
Lewin 2006
