Owly Just a Little Blue

Citation:

Runton, A. (2005). Owly: Just a Little Blue. Marietta, Ga.: Top Shelf.

Lexile Score: N/A

Summary:

                This wordless, graphic novel follows the story of a friendly bird who wants to help a little bird family out. After several attempts to help nothing seems to be working the way Owly wanted it to work. Finally after a long rainy night, Owly comes to the rescue and finally is able to help the way he wants.

Evaluation:

                 Overall, I would not say this book is of high quality literature. The images are nice, but I don’t think they are very child friendly. The images are small and there are quite a few images on a page, which is not idle if you are showing this book to a class. Some of the images are also misleading and the children might not be able to fully understand what is going on in each frame.

                Although I do not think this book is of high quality literature, I do think this book could be a great creative thinking tool by the images. Because there are no words and some unless you look at all the pictures you will not understand what is going on, thus creating a great way to promote creative writing.

Literary Elements:

Text: there are no words in this book

Characters: Owly, Bird, Butterfly, Caterpillar

Genre: Graphic Novel

Mini Lesson:

                 For this book I would have students pick a page and write a story about that image. I would have students write about what happened before the image, what is happening in the image, and what happens after the image. I would use this book for free writes and for also getting students to think creatively.

Age:  7+