Blog #4
INVISIBLE ALLIGATOR by Hayes Roberts
This is a very simple book of only 27 pages filled with cute art work that through
actions of the ‘Invisible Alligators’ helps children recognize behaviors in
themselves that sometimes they are not
aware they have. Very simple lessons
such as if you leave something out in the walkway, someone may trip over it,
the lesson being that a child has learned to pick items up and put them out of
the way.
The genre of this story is fantasy because the story is
about a problem that a young monkey named Sari is having and the invisible
alligators causing problems.
Motivational Activities:
Ask children to think of things they have learn to do after
reading the story. Follow up with their
comments to see how many other students realize that they know how to do these
types of things also.
Have children come up with their own make believe ‘trouble
makers’ and then explain how the ‘trouble makers’ actually help solve the
problem.
This book is very helpful in getting children to understand
their importance in their environment.
Each child is important to those are around them (family, school,
friends) and this story can help them figure out how each positive thing they
do, no matter how small, it important .
Hayes Roberts also wrote illustrated The Wiener Dog Magnet
and The Brave Monkey Pirate. He is
continuing his drawings, monkeys and other things at http://bluebison.net
Roberts, H. (2009). Invisible Alligators.
Retrieved from Magickeys.com: http://www.magickeys.com/books/
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