After reading What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom I realized there are many different kinds of picture books. I always remembered picture books being fun stories about make believe characters but after these books my opinion certainly changed.
I was completely shocked when I began reading What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? I went into the book expecting it to be about some animal that had a really big tail or something like that what they did with their tail. I didn't expect it to be an informative book about different animals and what they actually did with their noses, ears, tails, eyes, mouths, and feet. I liked how the book only showed you a part of the animal where you had to guess what animal it was and what they did with it. I had no idea what some of the animals where or what they did with that body part. This would be a great book to get kids interacted and guessing what animal they thought it was and what that animal did with each part. I also liked how the back of the book had more information on the animals. This is a great book to integrate with other areas of the curriculum. The children could each pick an animal in the book and do a project on that animal.
I loved reading Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. At first I wanted to go through the book and look at all the pictures without reading. They were beautiful pictures that caught the reader's attention. The different fonts also caught my attention. I liked how the narration, what Harriet was saying, and what God was saying were all in different fonts. I thought it made it a lot easier to read. I also liked how the author provided information on slavery before reading the book and more information on Harriet Tubman after the book. The information on slavery helps the reader to have a better understanding of what was happening with slavery. The information on Harriet Tubman helps the reader know more about her life. The children have just read a book with a little about what she did but this provides a lot more information.
Overall I thought these were great books to use in the classroom.