Author: Jenn Bailey
Illustrator: Mika Song
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: Kindergarten - 4th
Summary: Henry, a little boy with autism, was looking to make a friend in classroom six. It had to be someone who shares, likes the same things as him, and listens. A couple of hours go by and nothing goes the way Henry wants. Luckily, a girl named Katie was similar to him. They had a great time building blocks to create the perfect building with rectangles, cylinders, squares, and no triangles or broccoli.
Evaluation & Comments:
Illustrator: Mika Song
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: Kindergarten - 4th
Summary: Henry, a little boy with autism, was looking to make a friend in classroom six. It had to be someone who shares, likes the same things as him, and listens. A couple of hours go by and nothing goes the way Henry wants. Luckily, a girl named Katie was similar to him. They had a great time building blocks to create the perfect building with rectangles, cylinders, squares, and no triangles or broccoli.
Evaluation & Comments:
I think that all students can relate in someway to Henry or even the students in the classroom. This teaches a valuable lesson of treating everyone the same way when you're making friends with someone new. You never know what someone is going through or that anyone has a disability unless they directly say it. I would teach that lesson on top of trying to collaborate and adapt to one another because they may be your best friend if that one thing is disregarded.
For an activity, students would individually write down what they find in a friend and what they think are good qualities of themselves or their best friend. after they finish, we would come together as a class and discuss what they write down as we are completing a class concept map of all the things they share out.
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