Title: Earrings
Author: Judith Worst
Illustrator: Nola Langner Malone
Publisher: The Trumpet Club 1992
Pages: 30
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Rating System: Early Elementary 3 (Recommended)
This book is for early elementary. This book is meant more for females because the main character is a girl who wants to get her ears pierced. The illustrations go along exactly with what the text says, which makes it easier for readers to understand. The text is short and has mostly sigh words within it. This book is very easy to follow along and beginning readers in elementary school shouldn't have a problem with reading it.
Summary:
This book is about a little girl who desperately wants to get her ears pierced so she can wear earrings. She wants them! She has to have them! She goes through so much trying to persuade her mom and dad to let her get her ears pierced. But will her parents let her?
Educational Purpose:
I will read this book to my class. After I read it, I will ask them to go back to their seats and draw a picture of something they really desperately want. Then, they will paint their picture. After it dries I will have them turn it over and write what they want and why they want it. I will send it home with the students when everyone has completed it. They will give this picture to their parents for a Christmas Present wish.
My little niece just recently got her ears pierced and this book would have been perfect for her as she went through that time. Little girls and boys are so proud to show off their new pierced ears to everyone, that this book can be engaging for students if you had a child in your class that just got their ears pierced. This book is adorable!
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