Book: Not Yet, Yvette
Author: Helen Ketteman
Illustrator: Irene Travis
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Publication date: 1992
Supports Diverse Protagonist
Picture Book
Lexile Score: 190L
Target Audience: ages 3 & up
Brief Summary
Yvette is so exciting about what her and her father are planning. Her father has a list of things to do before they are ready and every time they finish one item Yvette asks "Is it time yet, Dad?" and her father responds with "Not yet, Yvette." Yvette and her father clean the house, bake a cake, go shopping, decorate the house and patiently wait for the door to open. When it does, Yvette's father says "It's time Yvette" and Yvette yells "Surprise Mom! Happy Birthday!"
Evaluation: 30/32
Illustration - 4
Storyline - 4
Appropriateness - 4
Problems/Resolutions - 4
Stereotyping - 4
Relatability - 4
Readability/Cohesiveness - 3
Critical Thinking - 3
This book would be very useful to use in a classroom if you were trying to teach patience or even planning. Students can see how Yvette has to be patient and wait for the right time to yell "Surprise" so that all the plans work out. Also students could use the factor of planning as a learning lesson. For the whole surprise to work out, you have to plan it out and make sure everything is done so that you don't miss anything important. I would definitely use this in my classroom.
Literary Elements
1. Repetition - The author repeats the phrase "Not yet, Yvette" throughout the book not only because it is the answer to all of her father's questions but also because also because it is the title of the book.
2. Sequence - There is a clear sequence of events that must be done for the surprise to be successful and the reader could pick them out and make a list.
3. Foreshadowing - The end of the book is not clearly stated but as a reader, you can almost predict what is going to happen at the end. There is a building up of decorating and baking a cake and buying presents. The reader can foreshadow and possibly guess what is going to happen at the end just from all of the events that take place. If I were to teach a lesson on foreshadowing, I could use this book and others to show students how an author uses hints and events that can lead to a reasonable guess of the ending without actually saying it. Students could create their own writing that uses foreshadowing and leave the ending out so other students could guess what the ending might be.
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