Skippyjon Jones, Class Action

Skippyjon Jones, Class Action

Written by Judy Schachner

Illustrated by Heather Wood

Scholastic Inc., 2011

Fantasy

32 pages

This adventurous book is about a little kitten who wants nothing more but to go to school. However, school is for dogs! His mother tried to explain this concept to him. Somehow Skippyjon Jones makes his way to school one day. How with those drool filled dogs react to Skippyjon? Will he be able to successfully learn at school or will he have trouble with it? Read this book to answer all your questions!

The illustrations in this book are very detailed and vivid. The pictures help tell the story within this book by Judy Schachner. Heather Wood, the illustrator uses combinations of several different things to help create her illustrations in this book. She uses Aquarelle Arches watercolor paper, ink, pen, and acrylic. The pictures are spread across two pages throughout the book. All in all, the illustrations express a sense of emotion throughout the entire book.

I would recommend using this book in a second or third grade classroom environment. This book can also be integrated into a classroom three different ways. First, this book can show examples of several different poems. This book has a few different poems that are cute and simple enough to help introduce poems. Secondly, this book has several words that could be introduced. Each of these words could be farther investigated as vocabulary words as well. Lastly, this book is great for practicing rhyming words within a classroom.