The "I Love You" Story

The "I Love You" Story

By: Walter Paul Kelley

Illustrated by: Tony Landon McGregor

The reader can see that the cover of this book has hearts and hands the mean "love" that are represented in sign language. This book is a realistic fiction because it is based on "modern times with events, settings, and characters that could be in the real world." (Literature and the child pg 17) This book explains where love first began. Where the word "love" orginated from. The pictures in this book are well defined. What that means is that the reader can see lining around the objects or around the characters. The pictures are also very simple but show how the character's live back then. This book is appropriate for any age from k-5th grade.  Also, this book can be a multicultural book, because on page 5-6 the picture shows how american indians painted the word "love" (The "I Love You" Story pg 5,6) The book also explians that on page 6, that "love" is spoken in many different indian languages. (The "I Love You" Story) Student's can do an activity with this by looking up the other ways that the indians say the word "love". Also, this is a good book for student's to read because they can learn how to sign the word love. It is really good for students to learn at a young age about a different language because the information will stick easier and it is good for students to know multiple languages. This book will teach student's that you can still communicate the same if you can't hear very well. When my students read this book, they will be reminded that they should respect the way that other people communicate, and it is not nice to make fun of other people that communicate with his or her hands. This book is mostly pictures so the reader can get a good visual on how it was in the 1800's. Another activity that students can do with this book is learn how to sign a sentence using the word love in it and the sentence doesn't have to be long, just very simple. Reader Response:

1) What did you learn while reading this book?

2) Why is it important to know different languages?

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Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2010). Literature and the child. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. pg 17 Print.

Kelley, W. P., & McGregor, T. L. (2004). The "I love you" story. Austin, Tx.: BuTo. pg. 5,6 Print.