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Award Long Form - Jambo Means Hello

This document is a book evaluation form for the picture book "Jambo Means Hello" by Muriel Feelings and Tom Feelings. The summary provides information about the book's genre, style and language, characters, plot, setting, themes, illustrations, and how it aligns with child development theories. Specifically, the book introduces the Swahili alphabet through illustrations and presents East African culture. It is set in East Africa and aims to teach the alphabet. The evaluation analyzes how the book fits Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development and Erikson's industry vs. inferiority stage of psychosocial development for children ages 2-11.

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Award Long Form - Jambo Means Hello

This document is a book evaluation form for the picture book "Jambo Means Hello" by Muriel Feelings and Tom Feelings. The summary provides information about the book's genre, style and language, characters, plot, setting, themes, illustrations, and how it aligns with child development theories. Specifically, the book introduces the Swahili alphabet through illustrations and presents East African culture. It is set in East Africa and aims to teach the alphabet. The evaluation analyzes how the book fits Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development and Erikson's industry vs. inferiority stage of psychosocial development for children ages 2-11.

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Fiction Evaluation Form

(Picture Books, Folklore, Modern Fantasy, Contemporary Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Multicultural Books)

Your Name Daphne Rodriguez Book Title: Jambo Means Hello


Author: Muriel Feelings Illustrator: Tom Feelings

Genre: Award Publisher/Year: Puffin Books / 1992\

EVALUATE THE BOOK USING THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS


STYLE and Language: Explain the language used – word choices, sentence length, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme.
Explain unexpected insights or interesting information the reader learns from the story. Give examples form the book for each
one:
Word choice: The word choice is descriptive and is an introduction to the Swahili alphabet
Sentence length: The sentence length is medium to long.
Dialogue: The dialogue starts off with a narrator and throughout the book; Then it is between Sadiq and his mother
Rhythm: N/A
Rhyme: N/A
Insights/interesting information:
CHARACTER – Who is the main character? Explain the character’s personality traits. How can the reader relate to the
character, become involved in the story? Who are the supporting characters? Give examples of each from the book.
Main character: N/A
Personality traits: N/A
How reader can relate to main character: N/A
Supporting characters: N/A
1. PLOT: (Explains the major events in the story.) Summarize the plot
Jambo Means Hello is an introductory to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East
African culture and lifestyles through vivid illustrations.
2. SETTING – Explain the place and time of the book.
THEME- What is the story’s theme or lesson?
Setting: The setting of the book is in East Africa
Theme: The theme(s) of the book is the Alphabet
ILLUSTRATION –Analyze the illustrations in the book (see Chapter 4 for details on the categories below.) Choose a 2-page
spread in the book to answer the following:
What Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)?
Realism
Illustration and Text: explain how illustration and text combined to tell the story.
Then, explain what illustrations show that text does not explain?
The illustrations gives readers a visual representation of what the word being defined means.
Page design --Describe:
The Borders: The borders are a thin white line along with a grey rectangle on the sides of the pages.
Use of white/dark space: The text is on both sides along with the illustrations
Text placement: The text is placed on the top center of both pages: the word defined is on the left with the
pronunciation underneath the word and the definition is on the right
Font size: Medium-Large
Placement of illustrations: The illustrations take up whole page on both sides
3. CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES – CHOOSE 2 of theories below and evaluate the book according to the developmental
theories. (How the book fits the developmental stage and age?)
PIAGET-COGNITIVE-INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage: Preoperational and the age: 2-6
Explain ONE cognitive development trait from the stage: In this stage, children begin to learn how to talk
Give examples from the book show how the book fits that trait and cognitive stage: This book gives children the
opportunity to learn a new language.
ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage: Industry vs. Inferiority and the age: 5-11

Explain ONE social development trait for this stage: Children need to cope with new social and academic demands.
Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage: Children can learn a new
language and feel proud of the accomplishment
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Identify the Age __________________________________
Explain ONE emotional development trait for this age:

Give examples from the book to illustrate that emotional development trait and this age:

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