First grade's current author study is on author and illustrator Mélanie Watt of Chester and Scaredy Squirrel fame. Last week students watched a video clip of Mélanie Watt talking about the process she uses to create her children's books. The clip is on one of our favorite online databases Teaching Books. (If your student cannot remember the login for Teaching Books s/he can ask in the library at school.)
After reading the book Chester, students had the chance to look at a short "book" I made in the style of Mélanie Watt. For those who have not had the pleasure of reading Chester, the book is about Chester the cat who desperately wants to have a book written about him instead of an unnamed mouse. He repeatedly takes over the mouse's story using his red marker. Hilarity and chaos ensue as he asserts his ideas instead of those of Mélanie Watt. (There's even a good-natured defacing of Mélanie's photo.)
Check out what the first graders had Chester the cat do when they got hold of a red pencil and a copy of my book about the library. I'm especially fond of the curl at the end of my mustache.
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