Tomie's Pancakes For Breakfast
DePaola , Tomie. Pancakes for Breakfast. 1978. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.
1998
Age Level: 4 – 7 years
Summary: The main character is a woman who, the night before the story takes place, dreams of having pancakes for breakfast. The next morning she attempts to make them, but runs into some trouble, including running out of eggs, milk, and syrup. In the end, her dog and cat end up eating all of her batter and ingredients, so she eats pancakes with the neighbor’s instead.. The very determined old lady comes across several unexpected obstacles will have to be surmounted before desire ultimately is fulfilled. Gives detailed frame by frame pictures of the pancake making process.
Theme: This wordless picture book tells a great story about hard work and not giving up. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” This book shows young readers that not everything we do goes according to plan.
Style: Tomie makes sure that there are always moralistic issues that are met such as in this story; Making sure that you have a good relationship with neighbors. Where milk, eggs, butter come from? Tomie has a specific visual style and storytelling skills are just so beautiful, iconic, and ubiquitous that Tomie books are almost a genre unto themselves. The book is told with a linear …show more content…
This book relies heavily on the illustrations because of its lack of words, but the illustrations tell the story beautifully. Little ones can "read" it themselves. Children can get big confidence boosts from reading books like this, so this book opens the reader to books that do have words. The illustrations in the book are age appropriate and allow kids to utilize the pages that have no text but just have frames of the different type of actions the characters has to go through in order to gather all of the ingredients that are needed to make pancakes for
1998
Age Level: 4 – 7 years
Summary: The main character is a woman who, the night before the story takes place, dreams of having pancakes for breakfast. The next morning she attempts to make them, but runs into some trouble, including running out of eggs, milk, and syrup. In the end, her dog and cat end up eating all of her batter and ingredients, so she eats pancakes with the neighbor’s instead.. The very determined old lady comes across several unexpected obstacles will have to be surmounted before desire ultimately is fulfilled. Gives detailed frame by frame pictures of the pancake making process.
Theme: This wordless picture book tells a great story about hard work and not giving up. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” This book shows young readers that not everything we do goes according to plan.
Style: Tomie makes sure that there are always moralistic issues that are met such as in this story; Making sure that you have a good relationship with neighbors. Where milk, eggs, butter come from? Tomie has a specific visual style and storytelling skills are just so beautiful, iconic, and ubiquitous that Tomie books are almost a genre unto themselves. The book is told with a linear …show more content…
This book relies heavily on the illustrations because of its lack of words, but the illustrations tell the story beautifully. Little ones can "read" it themselves. Children can get big confidence boosts from reading books like this, so this book opens the reader to books that do have words. The illustrations in the book are age appropriate and allow kids to utilize the pages that have no text but just have frames of the different type of actions the characters has to go through in order to gather all of the ingredients that are needed to make pancakes for