Once Upon A Time

Title: Once Upon A Time
Author/Illustrator: John Prater
Genre: Fantasy
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: K - 2nd grade

                                                    
Summary:
In the book, Once Upon A Time, a boy is in his neighborhood where nothing seems to happen so he makes up wild day. Throughout the story, you can see each page progresses with different illustrations from different fairy tales. Such as Humpty Dumpty, Little Red Ridinghood, and so on. As it progresses the different fairy tale characters are progressing as well as if they are in their original story, such as Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf and Humpty Dumpty falls off. While that is going on, the dialog is brief and is just talking about what the little boy is doing with his mom until his dad gets home. It ends with the dad starting to read a story to his son and the fairytale characters are going home as well.

In my classroom, I would use this book to assess the students to make sure they were remembering and knowing about the different fairytales in the book. I would use this book after we went over the fairytales illustrated throughout the book.

I think K through second grade would benefit the most from this story because of how short it is, and it does not necessarily teach a moral lesson but it expresses imagination which is necessary for young children to have and keep.

In my classroom, I would use this for a sentence stem of "Once Upon A Time" and have the students write their own fairytale.