Puss
in Boots
Retold by John Cech
Illustrated by Bernhard Oberdieck
Sterling Publishing Company, 2010
32 pages
Traditional Literature
I
chose Puss in Boots because it is a
classic fairytale in the genre of traditional literature, and I think it is a
great story. This story is about a Miller's son that inherits a cat when his
father dies. The son is poor, all he has is this cat, and the cat promises to
make it worth his while to keep him. The cat starts bringing the king of the
land gifts in his master's name, Lord Fortunato, and this gives his master a
great reputation with him. Puss in boots ends up outsmarting and taking an
ogre's castle and land, and creates a new life for himself and his master.
The
text in this book is mostly formal and informal in relation to the
illustrations. There are a lot of vignettes and double page spread
illustrations in this book that are composed of soft colors. The lines in this
book show a great deal of texture making everything look very realistic. The
media used in this book by the illustrator are painting using watercolors and
drawing using pen and ink. The illustrations in this book are very beautiful
and are reflective of the time period of the story.
Puss in Boots is
appropriate for middle elementary grades and up, based on the length of the
text. For earlier grades, the teacher could read the book aloud to the
students. This book would be a great read aloud for first and second grade, and
a second grader may be able to read this book independently. This book would be
great for character education, because it focuses on friendship. It would be
great to use to talk about how it is not appropriate to take things from other
people in real life. It could be used to study the genre of traditional
literature for upper elementary grades or in a classroom library with several
other books of this genre. Puss in Boots
would be a great book to learn new vocabulary, from a different era, and learn
some historical information. This book has no awards or honors.
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