Title: I Can Be
Anything
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Genre: Realist
Fiction
Summary: “When I grow
up, what shall I be? Of all the many, many jobs, which one will be the best for
me?”
List: pumpkin grower, dandelion blower,
paper-plane folder, puppy-dog holder, puddle stomper, apple chomper,
mixing-bowl licker, tin-can kicker, barefooted hopper, bubble gum popper,
snowball smoother, baby-sis soother, gift unwrapper, jump and clapper,
cheek-to-cheek grinner, dizzy-dance spinner, cross-legged sitter, make-believe critter,
deep-hole digger, lemonade swigger, honeysuckle smeller, silly-joke teller,
best-paper saver, good-bye waver
*Fold out page, saying he will be every
one of the jobs!*
*Last page is a picture of him being
happy, throwing his hat in the air while a rabbit does the same*
Characters: boy
Plot: what job should
he be?
Theme: different
“silly, but real” occupations
Setting: N/A
Opinion: I think this
is a good book to read to child about jobs. These were all silly jobs but they
were somewhat realistic to children and I think this would be humorous while
reading, so it would make a lesson fun!
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