Age Appropriateness (Primary, Intermediate, Middle School): Primary
Review/Critique: This book talks about the creation of geese and goes through their life cycle up until migration. The mother and father geese build a nest for their family and stay with them until the geese are able to fly away themselves. This book fits realistic fiction because it is accurate scientifically. The book follows the same life cycle and pattern as a real geese would.
Comments on Use: As a teacher, you could use this book in your classroom as a fun way to talk about life cycles or if you have a unit on birds. Personally, I found the book boring and probably would not use the book in my classroom.
Medium: Watercolor ( )

Summary: This book is about a mother goose and a father goose and their adventure raising a family of baby goslings, one of which is more adventurous than the others. The story then focuses on him with the pictures but narrates that mother, father, and babies with words at the same time.
Critique: This book makes a good realistic fiction because the author is able to make the geese family come to life without giving them human characteristics like a fantasy book would. Instead, the animals behave exactly as someone would expect animals to behave but still in a fictional way since the author has no way of telling this as a true story he was a part of. ( )

Age: Primary, Intermediate
Media: Watercolor

The genre of this book is informational. It tells the story of how geese live and the things that they go through to make sure that the baby geese stay alive. It also provides pictures of the different things that they do to keep safe.

Genre ~ Informational ~ After reading this picture book, children will have a better understanding of geese. They will have built on their knowledge of birds and learned more about the working world around them. This is a great example of an informational book.
Media ~ watercolor ( )

The illustrations in the story help move the plot along. The story talks about the goslings staying close to their mother, safe and warm, but the illustrations always show one of the goslings wandering away. This creates tension and conflict, especially when the reader is led to believe that the rest of the geese left this gosling behind when they moved. The conflict is resolved when the family is reunited and they move south together.
This book is realistic fiction because it is told from the point of view of someone watching the geese. The geese are not telling the story. This could take place with any family of geese.
Media: Ink and Wash ( )