Author: - Karen Ackerman
Title: -Song and Dance Man
Illustrator: -Stephen Gammell
Publisher: -Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Year: -1988
Format: -Hardcover
Genre: -Picture Storybook
Reading Level: -Assisted
Interest Level: -Early Elementary
Topics: - Caldecott award, grandparents, vaudeville, dress up, memories
Summary: -
The story focuses on three children who, when they visit their grandparents, get to learn about their grandpa's days on the Vaudeville stage. The story nostalgically describes the show that the grandfather puts on for his grandchildren in the attic, using his old costumes and old routines. Illustrations use colored pencils to show texture, mood, and motion.
Illustrator: -Stephen Gammell
Publisher: -Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Year: -1988
Format: -Hardcover
Genre: -Picture Storybook
Reading Level: -Assisted
Interest Level: -Early Elementary
Topics: - Caldecott award, grandparents, vaudeville, dress up, memories
Summary: -
The story focuses on three children who, when they visit their grandparents, get to learn about their grandpa's days on the Vaudeville stage. The story nostalgically describes the show that the grandfather puts on for his grandchildren in the attic, using his old costumes and old routines. Illustrations use colored pencils to show texture, mood, and motion.
Extension Activities: -
--Have the students put together a Vaudeville-style show of their own. For older classrooms, students could combine this with some level of research about the Vaudeville era.
--Compare and contrast the forms of entertainment that students enjoy and that students' grandparents and parents enjoyed when they were younger.
--Have the students put together a Vaudeville-style show of their own. For older classrooms, students could combine this with some level of research about the Vaudeville era.
--Compare and contrast the forms of entertainment that students enjoy and that students' grandparents and parents enjoyed when they were younger.
