You Are My Sunshine adapted by Steve Metzger and Illustrated by Jill Dubin

Title: You Are My Sunshine 

Author: Steve Metzger 

Illustrated: Jill Dubin

Genre: Fiction, Song, Lyric Poetry

Award: None 

Age: 4-5 Years old

Summary:

This book is one of those familiar lyrical songs. Many parents will usually sing this songs to their children or vice versa. This book is a sing a long book. However, the lyrics is a little different than the original song. It adds more lyrics to it. The song is basically about the mom telling their child how the child is their only sunshine and makes the mom happy, when she may feel sad. Then it adds to the mom telling their child that the child is her only star shine, and the dad tells his child, the child is his only love shine. 

Book Evaluation:

1) I would recommend this book to my younger students because it is a sing-a-long book, and many of them would be familiar to it. I can see the Pre-Kinder and Kindergartners enjoying this book. Also, I like how there is repetitive rhyming words in which they can learn from. There are repetitive rhyming words, like sunshine, star shine, and love shine. 

2) I would recommend this book to the Pre-Kinder and Kindergarten grade level.

3) I would include this book in the unit of Language Arts. I can teach them rhyming words, verbs and adjectives, after their sing-along poem. Then, I can have them draw the adjectives of the poem for one day, and explain to me what adjectives are. The next day, they can draw the verbs of the poem. Then, the following day, they can create their own poem by using their own rhyming words.