How to Code a Sandcastle by Josh Funk, illustrated bySara Palacios. PICTURE BOOK. Viking, 2018. $17. 9780425291986
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) – ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
After introducing herself to the world, Pearl announces that
today is the last day she can build a sandcastle. Previous attempts have
failed, but today she has brought Pascal, her robot, to help. Pascal will do
anything she tells him, as long as she tells him in code. She then proceeds to
break down the instruction to “build a sandcastle” into smaller, doable steps.
By the end, she has used a code-following robot to build an entire kingdom.
This book introduces some basics of coding through an
activity that kids can relate to. Various coding conventions are introduced,
such as breaking a big task into smaller steps, looping, sequencing,
if-then-else clauses, and reusing the same code again and again. With the
current emphasis on coding instruction, this book is essential to support such
curriculum.
P. K. Foster, teacher-librarian
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