Players in Pigtails By Shana Corey and illustrated by Rebecca Gibbon


 Players in Pigtails by Shana Corey and Rebecca Gibbon
              • Historical Fiction
              • K-3
Summary:
This is a story about a girl named Katie Casey. Katie is not what everyone thought a girl should be, her clothes were wrinkled, she could not knit or dance, and she did not like home economics. Katie WAS good at baseball, but her parents would rather her to play piano or paint and said what good is baseball to a girl. She tried out for the school baseball team every spring, but always got turned away before even getting a shot just because she was a girl. Finally, something happened and a women's baseball team was being formed. Scouts were sent out to find girls to play baseball, and were surprised to find a lot of girls playing baseball just as good as the boys, including Katie Casey. At their first game, the people in the stands laughed at them until they started to play. The story ends with Katie hitting a grand slam and everyone talking about how good girls were for baseball. 
Evaluation:
I think this is a great book to teach students about the history of baseball/softball, which is a subject not often taught. As a former softball player, I would want my students to know how it all began and this is a great book to do just that. This is also a great book to show the girls in my class that they can do anything they set their mind to, even if it is considered a "boy thing". 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I Have To Go! by Robert Munsch illustrated by Michael Martchenko

Image
  I Have To Go! by Robert Munsch illustrated by Michael Martchenko Realistic Fiction PreK-2 Summary: This is a book about a young boy who, at the beginning, decides he is never peeing again. Of course, that does not last very long and every 5 minutes or so he yells, "I have to pee!" He does this the whole time until he goes to bed and does not say anything. Until he eventually says, "I wet the bed". After he wets the bed, his family waits for him to say he has to go, after a while he yells, " Grandpa, do you have to pee?" his grandpa says yes and they both go pee, and the little boy does not wet the bed again.  Evaluation: I think this is a great book for younger children, because it addresses a problem that the younger students might have. The fact that there is a book written about this, helps to show that having accidents at night is not all that abnormal. I believe it helps the students to understand that this is a normal struggle and there is nothing ...
Read more

The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

Image
  The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt PreK-3 Caldecott Honor/Medal Summary: Duncan loved to color, but one day he got out his crayon box to find a series of letters from his crayons. Each of his crayons had a complaint, and Duncan needed to find a way to solve all of their problems. At the end, he does find a way to make all of his crayons happy. Evaluation: I think this is a great book to read in class. This book has a lot of humor in it, so it will keep the students' attention. I would read this book in between activities, especially if one of the activities involves coloring. 
Read more

Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto and Ed Martinez

Image
  Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto and Ed Martinez K-3 Multicultural Summary: This book is about a young girl, Maria, and her cousins. Maria is fascinated by her mother’s wedding ring. Maria’s mother leaves her wedding ring sitting on the kitchen table, so Maria decides to try it on. Shortly after she puts the ring on, she and her cousins begin making tamales for a holiday party. The children finish making the tamales and go upstairs to play. This is when Maria realizes that she has lost her mother’s wedding ring. It was no longer on her finger, so she concludes that she has lost it in the masa of the tamales. All of the children decide to go down and eat all of the tamales that they had prepared for the party, in order to try and find the wedding ring. By the time the children are to the last tamale, they are stuffed and have not found the ring. When Maria decides to go tell her mother that she has lost the wedding ring, she sees the ring on her mother’s finger. The story ends with t...
Read more