Rex, Adam. 2007. PSSST! New York: Harcourt. ISBN 9780152058173
Adam Rex writes and illustrates picture storybooks that will captivate the students and cause them to laugh out loud, while begging the reader to share the stories again and again. In PSSST!, Rex tells a story of a girl visiting a zoo and she is stopped by various animals and asked to bring back items such as tires, trashcans, and paint. After taking the money that the animals provide for the items, the main character returns to each animal to deliver the requested items. Students will be thrilled to see what the animals create with the items in the end. This energetic story provides a great opportunity to show how voice is used effectively in writing, as each animal has their own distinct style of talking. The brown pencil sketches creating the backgrounds makes the brightly painted characters pop out on the page, bringing the student’s focus to the characters and their expressions. Children will enjoy the “comic book format” as many pages have six panels of scenes taking place in the story.
Adam Rex writes and illustrates picture storybooks that will captivate the students and cause them to laugh out loud, while begging the reader to share the stories again and again. In PSSST!, Rex tells a story of a girl visiting a zoo and she is stopped by various animals and asked to bring back items such as tires, trashcans, and paint. After taking the money that the animals provide for the items, the main character returns to each animal to deliver the requested items. Students will be thrilled to see what the animals create with the items in the end. This energetic story provides a great opportunity to show how voice is used effectively in writing, as each animal has their own distinct style of talking. The brown pencil sketches creating the backgrounds makes the brightly painted characters pop out on the page, bringing the student’s focus to the characters and their expressions. Children will enjoy the “comic book format” as many pages have six panels of scenes taking place in the story.
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