The Missing Donut by Judith Henderson - ADVISABLE

The Missing Donut by Judith Henderson, illustrated by T.L. McBeth. PICTURE BOOK. KIDS CAN PRESS, 2018. $13. 9781771387880

BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K, EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

Told is seven separate stories, each story uses one big word and builds the tale around defining and remembering the word. There is a Sprinkle Fairy and Sprinklers used in each story that alert the reader to the big words. The final story reviews each big word.

My kids are still using the words they learned in this book, especially “smithereens”. The stories themselves are random and not particularly notable, but the form could be used to model how to write stories based on the students’ own vocabulary words. 

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher