Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse a fiction picture book

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse written and illustrated by: Kevin Henkes.

This book is published by: Greenwillow August 19, 1996.

This book is appropriate for grades K-2.

Lilly is a mouse that goes to school. She is in Mr. Slinger's class. Lilly loves to take things to class. One day she takes her purse and gets in trouble while playing with her purse. Lilly learns the importance of following rules and behaving in class.

This would be a good book to teach story mapping skills: plot, characters, problem, solution, and setting.

This is a fun book and makes you think of a time when you got in trouble in school.

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