Title: “One Fine Day”
Author / Illustrations: Nonny Hogrogian
Publication Date: September 1st 1974
Genre: Fiction, Predictable, Folktale
Awards: Two times, “Caldecott Award Winner”
Introduction
Summary: One fine day a fox wandering in the forest finds a pail filled with milk being thirsty drinks the milk. The milk belongs to an old lady who becomes so angry, chops the fox tail for lapping up her milk. The fox demands its tail to the old lady as he would be teased by his friends. The women insist on having her milk in order for the fox to have his tail. The fox is off on an adventure where one thing leads to another.
Writing Style / Format: The story “One Fine Day” is an Armenian folk tale retold by Nonny Hogrogian. She did a wonderful job by translating this story. The rhythmic, cumulative text will have small listeners read along and match words to the pictures before the story is ended. The “One Fine Day” story is so predictable and rhyming which makes the child to read more.
Illustrations: The illustrations are bright and appealing. It has two kinds of paints, the water colors and the crayons. There are lots of orange, yellow, green, brown and purple make it pretty charming and very vibrant with …show more content…
However to work with them is a real challenge and needs a real skill. I would guess for a child who is in first grade may be familiar with letters but not sure how much they may be writing them. I would teach the letter ‘F’ for fox, by tracing the letter ‘F’ in upper and lower case with their figure and also ask them to produce the sound of the letter. Then I would encourage them to color the fox in the coloring page, and trace the word fox. This way the child learns the letter ‘F’, the sound of letter ‘F’, learns the animal and the word Fox. However this has to be repeated on consistent basis until the child masters the