One Day, The End.

One Day, The End.: Short, Very Short, Shorter-Than-Ever Stories Hardcover – October 6, 2015
Author: Rebecca Kai Dotlich ID: 1620914514

From School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 1A series of cleverly crafted tales involving a precocious girl doing ordinary things in a creative and energetic manner. Nine “shorter-than-ever” stories of a dozen words or less become considerably more sophisticated when readers delve into Koehler’s dynamic cartoon illustrations. While brief, the text plays an integral role in each story. The first tale reads “One dayI went to school. I came home. The end.” This spread shows the narrator involved in six different activities, including climbing over the letters of the word went while chIDg a cat. Dotlich and Koehler are ideally teamed and offer a genius method of encouraging narrative dialogue, as well as attention to text. Not quite wordless, each simple story sets the stage for the illustrated adventures, which tell the rest of the story. The colorful images represent nine individual tales, yet there is a cohesiveness among them, with images linking back to earlier tales. VERDICT These very short stories are ideal for sharing, providing opportunities for word recognition and writing prompts, dialogic reading, and narrative discussion.Gaye Hinchliff, King County Library System, WA

Review

“A series of cleverly crafted tales involving a precocious girl doing ordinary things in a creative and energetic manner. Nine “shorter-than-ever” stories of a dozen words or less, become considerably more sophisticated when readers delve into Koehler’s dynamic cartoon illustrations…. Dotlich and Koehler are ideally teamed up and offer a genius method of encouraging narrative dialogue, as well as attention to text…. These very short stories are ideal for sharing, providing opportunities for word recognition and writing prompts, dialogic reading, and narrative discussion.” —School Library Journal

“Retro, digitally created illustrations are clear and uncluttered, yet provide ample details that allow readers to fill in the gaps of these oh-so-brief tales….this entertaining collection shows that storytelling can be easily accomplished and can consist of more than just words.” —Booklist

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Age Range: 4 – 8 yearsGrade Level: Preschool – 3Hardcover: 32 pagesPublisher: Boyds Mills Press (October 6, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1620914514ISBN-13: 978-1620914519 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 9 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #9,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #318 in Books > Children’s Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Activity Books #513 in Books > Children’s Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Family Life #660 in Books > Children’s Books > Humor

This is a wonderfully unique book filled with two sentence stories such as "One day I lost my dog. I found him. The End". Though the idea seems simple on the surface, when you take the very first sentence to heart, the brilliantness shines through. The book begins, "For every story there is a beginning and an end, but what happens in between makes all the difference". This is true of all the super short stories in the book, and it gives the child an opportunity to fill in the middle (either based on what is pictured or by adding things from their imagination).

On a deeper level, this is true of life. In between all the "big moments" are all these little moments- seemingly mundane routine tasks. Sometimes it’s easy to just gloss over them. But especially with kids the "little moments" turn out to be the most important ones of all. This book is a great prompt to start the discussions that will lead to talking about the million "little moments" from the day.

Recommended based on the uniqueness of the idea and the story both at face value and as a story prompt!

My 10-year-old son read this book and immediately read it again, taking more time to study the art. Then he called for his 8-year-old brother: "Read this. It’s not like other books. The middles are in the pictures, see?" They spent a long time enjoying the very last page, too, because they kept going back to see where the bookshelf titles came from. FUN!

Very cute story about one sentence stories. Primary kids (K, !, 2) would see themselves in this story since they tend to write one sentence stories with "The End" after each one. Great mentor text for teachers trying to show students that elaboration is key when writing.
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