Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Picture Book 16


Title: My Father is Taller than a Tree
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Wendy Anderson Halperin
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Subgenre: Poetry
Theme: Father-Son relationship
Date of publication: 2010
Publishing Company: Penguin Group

Summary: This book beautifully portrays the relationship between a father and child. The book has a picture that matches everything the father and son are doing together. As they are playing, working in the yard, riding bikes and reading before bedtime, they are bonding and enjoying spending time together.


In the classroom, it’s important to show diversity and this book does that by using the different names for fathers that are used in different cultures such as ‘pop’, ‘mi papa’ and ‘pa’. 

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