Sunday, September 16, 2012

Picture Book # 5

Author: Christophe Gallaz and Roberto Innocenti

Title: Rose Blanche

Illustrator: Roberto Innocenti

Readability Score: Lexile: 430L, DRA: Not Available, Grade Level Equivalent: 3.1, Guided Reading: Not Available

Genre: Historical Fiction
Subgenre

Theme: European, Jewish, World War II, Prejudice and Tolerance, Holocaust, Sharing Kindness and Charity, Compassion and Honesty, Equality, Fairness, Death, Grief, and Loss

Primary and Secondary Characters: Primary - Rose Blanche

Awards/ Date of Publication: No Awards - 1985

Publishing Company: Creative Editions

ISBN: 978-1-56846-189-2

Summary: Rose Blanche is a young girl that lives in Germany during World War II.  She is unsure of where all of the tanks and trucks are going so she follows them one day. Rose discovers the concentration camps filled with children her own age.

Classroom Teaching Ideas:
1. Story elements: plot, character and setting
2. Conflict and resolution
3. Introduction of the Holocaust
4. Character Traits

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