Why Do Elephants Wear Purple Suspenders? by Judy Ziegler

Title: Why Do Elephants Wear Purple Suspenders? 

Author: Judy Ziegler

Illustrator: Judy Ziegler

Genre: Fiction, Poetry, Animal Fantasy

Award: None

Ages: 7-9 Years old

Summary:

This book is more of a riddle and a joke poem kind of book. It starts with a question at the beginning of every page and at the bottom of the page, appears to have the answers, faced upside down. As the pages turns, there involves different kinds of riddles and jokes in it. Throughout the poem, there involves different kinds of animals acting like people. For example, there is a polar bear eating hamburger, but they call it an Ice burgers.

Book Evaluation:

1) I would recommend this book for my class because it has humor. The pictures helps the riddle be humorous. The kids would enjoy this book.

2) I would recommend this book between the grade levels of second grade through fourth grade. 

3) I would include this book in the unit of Language Art, when I teach them the basics of writing. This would be a good book to begin speaking about punctuation. Before, I read the book to them, I would have them play an I Spy game. I would post different punctuation on the walls, and have them tell me how they would use that punctuation in a sentence.