11/28/10

Baby Rattlesnake

Author: - Te Ata
Title: - Baby Rattlesnake
Illustrator: -Mira Reisberg
Publisher: -Children's Book Press
Year: -1989


Format: -Paper Back
Genre: -Multi Cultural
Reading Level: - Emergent Reader
Interest Level: -Early Elementary


Topics: - Differences, snakes, not getting everything they want.


Summary: - It is about a baby rattlesnake that cries because his tail does not have a rattle like his mother father, brother and sister. His cries keep the community up all day and night. They decide to give him a rattle. He doesn't use it right and ends up without it in the end.

Extension Activities: -
Have each child draw a snake with what they think the rattle should look like when he gets it, and where he should put it.