Teacher's+comments+(Riley)

=There should be a distinction between a folktale, a fairy tale and a bedtime story. //Beauty and the Beast// is a fairy tale. The Frog Prince is a folktale. Should a bedtime story be shorter and suitable for children who can't read? Should it be tranquil, so a child is not disturbed? I really don't know, but I think you should try to distinguish this genre from fairy tales and folktales. =

== I am no expert on this genre, but I would think it varies, depending how much the child can read. Some stories for 3-5 year-olds are simpler in vocabulary, so the child can start to identify the words. You have also completely omitted the pictures. How much of the story can be told by the pictures? Do they actually tell the story by themselves or are they dependent on the words? Do pictures just repeat what is already in the words or do they add to it? ==


 * The illustrations are very cute. The only place they lacked detail was when you spoke of his clothing, while the pictures did not have enough detail below the head to show that. You also stated in your "User's Guide" that the pictures should represent most everything in the text. This is certainly not true in this text. you would need about twice the number of pictures to cover everything in the text. I think in the case of this genre you might have had 2-3 short examples and then illustrated the one you liked best. What you produced is very good, but I suspect you could have done better. **