I Want to Grow Up! by the Read Conmigo Team

Specifics
I Want to Grow Up! ¡Quisiera Ser Grande! by The Read Conmigo Team, Illustrated by Justin Dial
Published by Infinity Insurance, 2016
https://www.readconmigo.org/books/Little%20David%20RCM%20JPEG%20Book.pdf

Target Audience
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This book would be a good read aloud for a younger class, first to fourth grades

Summary
This book is about a chick who can not easily do things such as playing the guitar or karate kicking. His older brother is good at it though, so he wants to get older in order to get good at those things. After his parents explain things to him, After that, he goes to the Children's Day festival at his school. He reads about all the different things he could be when he grows up, and he pretends to be them. After that, he realizes that being a kid is actually fun. This book is bilingual, so there's English first, and then underneath that is the Spanish version of the same text.

Evaluation
This book was weird in that the main character was a chick, and his parents were both chickens, but when the character went to the festival, he had a friend who was a lion, and the rest of the people were actual people. The character in the story grew when he realized that he was okay being a kid, because he can be whatever he wants. The theme of the story, that it's good to be a kid and have fun and dream and not be good at everything, is a good message for a classroom. The setting and characters are the only thing that seem unrealistic.

Lesson
The lesson for this book will definitely have to do with personification, as the main character is a chick. We will discuss why the author chose to have a chick as the main character, and why he is friends with a lion. The choice of having this book be a bilingual text will also be discussed. This book would be read on Children's Day, so that the book serves its purpose of reminding students that being a kid is good. There will be a writing prompt about what each student wants to be when they grow up, and what they would like to get better at by practicing.