[LM_NET] HIT: picture book - interconnectedness

[Kathleen Baggs <kbaggs@LINDENWOLD.K12.NJ.US>]

My request was:

Although I am at a high school, I have an ESL teacher who is looking for
a picture book that shows the interconnectedness of events. The story
should show how seemingly unrelated events in the end make sense; how we
often can't see the big picture (until the end of the story). Can anyone
help me with this one?

Here are the suggestions: 

 

How about Flotsam?

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Have you considered the "Zoom" books by Istvan Banyai?

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Maybe the book FORTUNATELY by Remy Charlip?

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Hi. Would Fortunately by Charlip be what you're looking for? The "good
luck" is on colored pages; the "bad luck" is on gray pages.

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I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but "Once Upon a
Banana" comes to mind. It is by Jennifer Armstrong and is a wordless
book. It begins with a juggler with a monkey and shows a sequence of
events similar to dominoes falling.

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There's a Caldecott winner named Black and White that does this with 4
interconnected stories.

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Maybe Black and White by David Macauley?

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Black and White / David McCaulay

This would be a good one for high school students.

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If you give a mouse a cookie

Why mosquitos buzz in people's ears

Fortunately,

Mrs. Mack

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The only one that comes immediately to mind is the old "For want of a
nail" rhyme/poem/song, which of course I can't quite remember now that I
want to.

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The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash is a great cause and effect book.  Also
Black and White, which uses an unusual format to tell four different
stories that turn out to be one story in the end.

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I'm sure you've already received this response a million times over, but
the Caldecott award-winner Black and White by David Macaulay does the
interconnectedness thing very well, but there aren't any words in it (if
that makes a difference.)

 

In addition, if your teacher is interested, the computer-animated movie
Hoodwinked also does a wonderful job of showing how seemingly unrelated
actions interconnect in the end.

 

 

Thanks to all who took the time to think about it and to email me with
the titles!

 

Kay

 

Kathleen D. Baggs

School Library Media Specialist

Lindenwold High School

801 Egg Harbor Rd.

Lindenwold, NJ 08021

856.741.0320 ext. 1300

Fax 856.741.0350

kbaggs@lindenwold.k12.nj.us

 


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