Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash

This children book is about Mrs. Nelly who lives in a pretty big farm. One day in the spring, she pushes a seed on the soil to plant a squash and magically the minute she did it, the squash started to grow. The author uses a cheerful bright illustration to show how the squash grows as a big as ahead to fat and bumpy squash. The ink cartoon illustration in this book provides a distinct sense of humor to describe who the enormous vegetable roll out of the garden to destroyed the neighborhood, flatten the cat, ran over toes, and pulled up the house of Mrs. Mcnosh. The author also uses this sentence “scaring the pants of two elderly gents” to expand the story’s silliness through the picture that shows them frighteningly leaping from show more their pants and fleeing in just boxers from the squash. This story can be a good choice to make the children think about what Mrs. Can do to solve the big problem. I will use this book for funny story time. show less

I have noticed in Sarah Weeks books is the use of dialogue. This use helps understand the story and draw ourselves into the story more. The story is about a squash that grows so large that Mrs. McNosh can live inside it.The great squash grew so fast and large, Mrs. McNosh could not decide what to do with it. In the end, she ends up sleeping in the squash.

On a fine spring day Mrs. McNosh decided to plant some squash but to her surprise right went she planted it, it started growing and wouldn't stop. Grew so much it was knocked the clothes line, the fence, and even squished the cat. It got as big as a house and Mrs.. McNosh was getting worried she didn't know what do it but finally she decided to pick it. It stopped growing but now she had another problem on her hands, what she going to do with a squash as big as a house. She had an idea, she stayed up all night to carve it out and made a house. This is a good fantasy book because it talks about gardening with is common activity but also has a fantasy twist to when the squash grows as big as a house and she eventually lives in it.

Mrs. McNosh grows a squash. The squash grows out of control and get so big that she doesn't know what to do with it. She then comes up with the conclusion to sleep inside the squash and she did! This story was fun and I think children will enjoy the rhyming. I also I think they will enjoy to see what she is going to do with this huge squash.

This book is themed around Mrs. McNosh's squash. I like this book because of its comical elements and its simplistic nature. It is an easy story for children to follow along with. I would use this story in my teaching to just simply share a great trade book with them. I would recommend this book to grades K-2.

Genre: Fantasy
Media: Ink and Colorwash
Age Appropriateness: Primary
This book is about Mrs. McNosh who planted a squash. It grew and grew and grew One day she finally "picked" it, but what was she to do with it? She decided to carve it out and then she lived in it. This book is more of just a funny story that little kids would enjoy listening to. This book is a good example of fantasy because it is not realistic. No one could ever grow a squash big enough to carve out and live in. The character in this story, Mrs. McNosh is a round character because we know a lot about her.

This book is an example of a fantasy book. The story would not happen in reality, but it is relatively believable. A squash wouldn't grow big enough for someone to hallow out and live in it, but they ready would believe this imagainary story. The plot of this book is person against nature. Mrs. McNosh must figure out what to do with her extremely large squash. In the end the conflict is resolved by making the squash into a house. I would use this book in a primary classroom. The teyp of media used is pencil. There small details and shading used in the pictures.