Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Picture Book #9 The Man Who Tricked a Ghost


Author: Laurence Yep
Title: The Man Who Tricked a Ghost
Illustrator: Isadore Seltzer
Readability: 4.9
Genre: Picture Book
SubGenre: Fantasy, Diversity
Theme: Do not trust everything you hear and see
Primary & Secondary Characters: Sung, his friend, and a ghost
Award(s) and date of Publication: 1993
Publishing company: Bridgewater Books
ISBN: 0-8167-3030- X
Summary and How I would use it in the classroom.

A brave young man named Sung was not afraid of anything because he said they were all created from the same thing therefore they are cousins. One day he went and visited his good friend until night fall. His friend tried to convience him to stay because people who walk through the forest a night usually disappear. Of course Sung being so brave decided that he was still going to walk through the night as he walked through the night he actually ran into the warrior who was actually the ghost. Sung then tricked the ghost to thinking he was a ghost, he then aquired all the ghost secrets, and even found out what he was afraid of. After finding out this information he used against the ghost and once they made it into the town he had the ghost captured.

This would be a great book for teachers to use to talk about conflict and resoultion. Teachers could have students write about if they were Sung how would they have tricked the ghost differently, who they have spat on him earlier, or would they have told early he was actually sung.

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