My Shadow

This was a fun poem and the mouse illustrations certainly lend to that, but I wasn't particularly moved by the book as a whole. It's a nice book, and it could be a lot of fun to share it with the right audience of children, but it wasn't particularly memorable.

I loved this book! It was a super cute, short poem. The author focused on rhyming, so it kind of had a little tune to it. I really liked this book because it actually made sense. The rhymes were perfect, and the way the shadow is shown, it is relevant to people. I can relate to this book because shadows are so silly and this book really shows what shadows are.

This book illustrates Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, My Shadow. The illustrations bring the words to life. They depict children from all over the world doing activies while acompanied by their shadow. The AABB repitition gives the book a sing song feel and would be great to teach kids some fluency patterns for this type of poem. The words on each page are limited and the illustrations will expand the meaning of the text.. It could be a great read aloud when teaching about a light or shaodows, as well as perspective taking. The reader personifies their shadow. There are some higher level vocabulary words that could be good examples of how to use context clues to figure out unknown words. Te book is rich in text and the illustrations are show more beautiful. I would use this book with children up to sixth grade. show less

This is a very cute book that would be great for a younger audience. The illustrations were awesome. This book is about a young boy who refers to a shadow almost as if they are a person, coming out during the day but lazy and sleeps at night. You could use this to talk about shadows and how they are made and when the sun sets were a shadow goes.

This picture-book edition of Stevenson's poem is a good introduction to classic poetry for young readers.

This poem talks about a shadow that is with someone everyday except when the sun was not up. He says he walks, sleeps, and plays with him. The shadow is lazy, a coward, and is different sizes everyday.

My reaction is this poem is really cute and innocent. The thought is from a perspective of someone that does not know or understand what a shadow is. This poem also rhymes.

This book could be good around ground hog day. There is a lot of talk about whether more winter or spring will arive. This poem could also create a project to go outside when it is sunny then when there is no sun to see what the poem is saying when his shadow supposively goes to sleep

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Summary:
This poem tells about a kid describing his shadow. He doesn’t know it his shadow; he just makes fun of it. Throughout the poem he says a lot of different and interesting things about his shadow.

Personal Reaction:
I think this is a very cute poem. I think it is for young readers. It could be a good poem for teaching young kids about their shadows.

Classroom Extension ideas:
1. Have children draw pictures of what their shadows do.
2. Ask children about times that their shadow has maybe scared or surprised them.