Chopsticks
Authors: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Illustrator: Scott Magoon
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Copyright Date: 2012
# of Pages: 40
Genre: Multicultural Fiction
This book is the story about a set
of chop sticks who are best friends. They do everything together until one day
of the chopsticks gets broken while they’re practicing martial arts. The other
chopstick learns to do things on his own while the broken chopstick heals, and
they find out that having the time apart to find what they were good at
independently made them stronger friends.
The illustrations look like a
mixture between color pencil and water color. The author makes really good use
of background color to signify emotion and climax. All of the characters are drawn
with very expressive facial features. Texture is very organic with very curved
and smooth lines until there’s a climax or major event where the lines become
very sharp and jagged.
This book would be appropriate for
all school age children. You could use this book to discuss the Asian cultures
and celebrate have students try to use the chopsticks to find all they uses
they could write about doing with chopsticks besides eating with them. I loved
the illustrations and the story in this book. I would highly recommend this for
a classroom along with their other book Spoon.
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