Author: Cynthia Rylant
Title: Mr. Putter & Tabby Write the Book
Illustrator:Arthur Howard
Readability: Kindergarten through Second
Genre: Chapter Book
Subgenre: Realisitic Fiction
Theme: Achieving Goals, Anyone can be an author of a great story
Primary
and Secondary Characters: Mr. Putter, Tabby, Mrs. Teaberry, Zeke
Publishing
Company: Harcourt
Award(s) and Publication year: 2004
Award(s) and Publication year: 2004
ISBN
number: 0-15-200241-3
Summary
and how the book will be used with students:
Mr. Putter and his cat are sitting in the house on a snowy winter day and decided that they were going to write a book, a mystery novel. Mystery novels were Mr. Putter's favorite books to read when he was younger. The next day Mr. Putter decided that he was going to finally begin writing his book. He started by heading a paper Chapter 1 but soon was distracted by cooking, eating, then took a bath and was tired from all the days activities. On the third day Mr. Putter woke up ate breakfast and then started to think about how he was begin his book. Once Mr. Putter started thinking he began thinking about the good things and decided to write those down. After writing the good things down, Mr. Putter visited his neighbor Mrs. Teaberry and Zeke, her dog. They ate a snack together and then Mr. Putter read her The Good Things. Mrs. Teaberry said she loved it and even called it enchanting. Mr. Putter told her that he wanted to write a mystery novel but ate too much. She told him not to worry because they were not many writers of good stories. Mr. Putter felt better and treated them all to vanilla malts. After arriving back home Mr. Putter could not wait until the next big snow to write again.
I would use this book in the classroom to introduce younger children to chapter books. This chapter book is only three chapters long for about forty pages. I could teach children that chapter books does not have to be very long to be a good book. We could also use this book to talk about weather and explore what they would do on their snow days.
Mr. Putter and his cat are sitting in the house on a snowy winter day and decided that they were going to write a book, a mystery novel. Mystery novels were Mr. Putter's favorite books to read when he was younger. The next day Mr. Putter decided that he was going to finally begin writing his book. He started by heading a paper Chapter 1 but soon was distracted by cooking, eating, then took a bath and was tired from all the days activities. On the third day Mr. Putter woke up ate breakfast and then started to think about how he was begin his book. Once Mr. Putter started thinking he began thinking about the good things and decided to write those down. After writing the good things down, Mr. Putter visited his neighbor Mrs. Teaberry and Zeke, her dog. They ate a snack together and then Mr. Putter read her The Good Things. Mrs. Teaberry said she loved it and even called it enchanting. Mr. Putter told her that he wanted to write a mystery novel but ate too much. She told him not to worry because they were not many writers of good stories. Mr. Putter felt better and treated them all to vanilla malts. After arriving back home Mr. Putter could not wait until the next big snow to write again.
I would use this book in the classroom to introduce younger children to chapter books. This chapter book is only three chapters long for about forty pages. I could teach children that chapter books does not have to be very long to be a good book. We could also use this book to talk about weather and explore what they would do on their snow days.
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