Verdi

Verdi

Title: Verdi

Genre: Bluebonnet

Author and illustrator: Janell Cannon

Awards: Bluebonnet Award

Age Group: 6-10 year olds

This book is a cute little story of a python that learned to accept himself, I would definitely recommend for young readers.

Summary:

In the beginning Verdi does not want to be green snake he wants to say yellow forever. He sees the green snakes and thinks they’re so lazy and slow and he promises himself he will never be like that. Then when he starts to turn green he tries everything to avoid it but ends up hurting himself. Then the greens take care of him so he can get better. Then when he was better he laid for days until finally he did turn green. Then two yellows came one day and said look at him so lazy I will never be like that. Ashamed of what he had become he asked them “do you want to climb trees with me”. They say yes and he teaches them how do a figure 8. He realizes he can still be himself even if he’s green.

I believe I could use this book in my classroom because it has a great lesson on even though things may change that doesn’t mean you have to stop being yourself.

I believe the appropriate grade level for this book is 1st-4th grade. This book does have quite a few words to a page but is not too complex of vocabulary. The illustrations in this book really help visualize the story.

I believe I could use this book as an introduction to research on pythons or snakes. After reading the book the students will do further research on some snakes.

HAVE FUN READING!💙-Lacy