I Like To Be Little

Title: I Like To Be Little
Author/Illustrator: Charlotte Zolotow and Erik Bleguad
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Age Group: K - 3rd Grade
                                                      
Summary:
In this short story, I Like To Be Little, it is about a little girl who wants to stay little forever and is telling her mother this. Her mother questions her and tells her it is nice to be a grown-up. Her reasons vary from being able to skip, not wear shoes in the Summer, coloring whenever she wants, being able to jump in a pile of leaves and so on. Her mother agrees that not all grown-ups do those things, however, she says, when you grow up you can be the mother of a sweet girl like her daughter is and be able to experience all those things again. Lastly, the daughter ends the conversation saying that for now, she is going to enjoy being little.

In my classroom, I would use this book as a read-aloud and talk about the differences in being a child and being an adult and then asking what they want to be when they grow up and having them write about it.

I think the age group for this bool is K through 3rd which is appropriate because it is an easy read-aloud or independent read for the older kids, as well as the pictures in the book are captivating.