This was a very cute book about how students think about what to get their teacher for Teacher Appreciation Day. In this book all of the students get their teacher Mrs. Shepherd all types of apples, wear her favorite color green, paint her pictures of her pet dog and clean her blackboard. All of the students except for Maybella Jean Wishywashy. Maybella can't make up her mind what treat to bring, what color to wear, what picture to paint or what to clean, so she goes all out and does everything to the extreme. She has a hard time making up her mind so she always says, "Eeny meeny miney mo. So many choices, I just don't know." This book is really neat to read because the text is different. It uses a different type of font that makes it look more handwritten than typed. Also, when Maybella says, "Eeny meeny miney mo," the font color changes from black to red. It is really neat to see this and students would really enjoy this. As I was reading this book, I kept thinking what would Maybella do next. It was great to see how when all the other students in the class were all doing pretty much the same thing, Maybella didn't mind being the one who was different from everyone else. The illustrations were done by Thor Wickstrom and were very good. They were very detailed and showed how many different things Maybella was gathering to bring Mrs. Shepherd.
This book would be great for having students come up with ideas about being different from the rest of a class or group. It shows them that it is ok to not follow the pack and to branch out on their own and do their own thing. This would be a great book to read during morning or afternoon reading circles and discuss it with the students and ask if they have ever gone against what everyone else was doing.
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