Have You Seen My Dragon?

 

TITLE: 

Have You Seen My Dragon?

AUTHOR: 

Steve Light

PUBLISHER: Candlewick Press

COPYRIGHT: 

April 8, 2014

# of PAGES: 48
Genre: Fiction

     

          Steve Light creates this journey to help a little boy find his dragon. Throughout the story the reader travels across the big city to find the dragon. The boy thinks of all the places the dragon likes to go and the things they like to do together. By the end, the reader and boy find the dragon right where he left him. 

 The illustrator drew the illustrations in black and white with a marker. The illustrator uses color only to point out the items the boy mentions. When the boy first goes to look for his dragon, he thought his dragon might have been hungry so he goes to hotdog stand. The illustrator colored the hotdogs and nothing else in the picture. In each illustrator he adds numbers to count the object the boy mentions until they get to number 20.

                 

Content Area and Grade:  Science 1^st Grade

SCI.1.4- Design a solution to a human problem by using materials to imitate how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs (e.g., outerwear imitating animal furs for insulation, gear mimicking tree bark or shells for protection). *

SCI.AAS.1.4b- Observe growth and identify needs of plants and animals to meet their needs over a period of time.

                  The teacher can have the student explain how the dragon would have meet his needs while being away from his owner to survive and grow.