The Carrot Seed - A beautiful classic image ...

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Summary

Carrot seed, was first published in 1945, is a classic children's picture book. A little boy plants a carrot seed and take care of them immediately, even if each family member is no hope that it will grow. Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss, illustrated by Crockett Johnson, is a story with easy and simple illustrations, but encouragingly with a sharing with preschoolers through first graders text message.

History

In 1945, the books of most of the children had a long text, but the seeds of carrot, with a very simple story, only 101 words. The child, unidentified plant a carrot seed and every day, pulls weeds and waters his seed. The story takes place in the garden with his mother, his father and his brother also set and said, "It will not come."

Young readers will wonder they could right? Your hard efforts and hard work will be rewarded when bursts of tiny seeds leaves on the ground. The last page shows the current price, the child bears his carrots in a wheelbarrow.

The Illustrations

Illustrations Crockett Johnson are two-dimensional and easy as text emphasizes the children's and carrot seed. The characteristics of children and families simple lines are drawn: the eyes are circles with a dot; The ears are two lines; and the nose is in profile.

The text is always positioned on the left side of the double-page spread with a white background. The images on the right are empty yellow, brown and appear until carrots with green leaves and large bright orange highlighting the price of perseverance.

Author Ruth Krauss

The author Ruth Krauss was born in 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied at the Peabody Institute of Music. He received a bachelor's Parsons School of Applied Arts in New York. His first book, a good man and his good wife, was published in 1944 with illustrations by the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt. Eight of the books of the author have been illustrated by Maurice Sendak, from 1952, to dig a hole.

Maurice Sendak were happy to work with Krauss and holding his mentor and friend. His book, a very special house that Sendak illustrated, was recognized as a Caldecott Honor book illustrations. In addition to his books for children, Krauss also plays and wrote poems in verse for adults. Ruth Krauss has more than 34 books for children, many of them written illustrated by her husband, David Johnson Leisk including carrot seed.

Illustrator Crockett Johnson

David Johnson Leisk borrowed the name "Crockett" Davy Crockett, differ from all others in the neighborhood Daves. Later he took the name "Crockett Johnson" as a pseudonym because Leisk was too hard to pronounce. He is perhaps best known for the comic Barnaby (1942-1952) and Harold is known book series, beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon.

My recomendation

Carrot Seed is a nice sweet story that after all these years remained in print. The award-winning author and illustrator Kevin Henkes, carrot seed name as one of his favorite childhood books. This groundbreaking book with a minimum of text reflects the here and now, in the world of a child. The story can be shared with young children to enjoy and understand simple graphics plant a seed and wait and wait to develop.

On a deeper level can learn to early readers perseverance, hard work, determination and self-confidence. There are numerous outreach activities that can be developed with this book, such as: the story is told with face cards in a timeline placed; which acts in the history of pantomime; Learning other vegetables to grow underground. Of course, the most obvious activity to a seed. If you're lucky, the little watering will not be satisfied in order to plant a seed in a paper cup, but want to use a shovel, ... and do not forget the truck. (HarperCollins, 1945. ISBN: 9780060233501)

(Sources: Ruth Krauss paper, Harold, and Barnaby Dave: a biography of Johnson by Phillip Nel Crockett, Crockett Johnson and purple pen: A Life in Art by Philip Nel, Comic Art 5, Winter 2004)

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