One of my new favorite sentences from a book, yet a little puzzling: There's a lady in the locker room who says I'm delicious, and I like to get inside the lockers.

very good illustrations and I like a picture book that makes me think about how silly kids can be.

I like how she remembers things like a tree where they once saw an umbrella stuck in it. And how a cat named Maria from across the street steps out and smells the morning.

School Library Journal, August 2007, page 82:

"A young narrator describes a typical Wednesday. She wakes up early and spends time with both parents before her father takes her to the dog park and then to school...The text reads aloud smoothly..."

Citation:
Jenkins, Emily. What Happens on Wednesday. Lauren Castillo, Illus. Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, 2007

Annotation:
A little girl describes everything she does on a Wednesday from when she wakes up to when she goes to bed that night. This little girl describes what its like to walk around town with her father on her way to school, spending half of her day in school, as well as describing the errands she goes on with her mother after she is picked up from school.

Age/grade:
I would recommend this book to kindergarten and first grade students because it is a realistic story told from the prospective of the child in the story. Students in these grades would be able to relate to this story and the child in it. This story is appropriate for these grade levels because of the realistic elements presented in the story. The story also reflects emotions the child feels through out her day. The length of this story is appropriate for children in these grades because there are only a few sentences per page, so children won’t get restless sitting listening to the story. The text and font are also of a good size for beginning readers.

Description of how to use book:
I would use this book in a language arts and art activity. I would hold a discussion with the class about what kinds of different activities they do during the week with their family then I would have the children draw a picture of one of their favorite daily activities and have them write a sentence about what their favorite activity.

Description of artwork:
The illustrations looked as though they were created using chalk. The illustrator used a lot of nice, bright colors of reds, oranges, brown/tan, and black. The illustrations did a really nice job of showing that this story was from a child’s perspective by depicting the size of the child to objects that she passed by during her day. For example towards the end of the story the child stops at the library with her mother and is sitting on the counter at the library while her books are being checked out because she is too small to see over the top of the counter. The pictures also show the child’s emotions, like smiles when the child is happy. This allows the children reading the story to get a sense of the different emotions the child is feeling through out the story.