Thursday, June 2, 2011

Corn

By: Gail Gibbons (2008)
This informational book is all about corn as you could probably gather from the title. The book goes over where corn originated from, the different uses of corn, and the different types of corn.

I thought that this book was really interesting because I learned a lot of different facts about corn. The book did a really good job giving facts, while also providing pictures to show what they were talking about. There were many good illustrations of the different parts of the corn plant and the different types of corn as well. I did not know that corn was used in so many different things and this book was really helpful in pointing that out.

I think that this book would be really useful in a classroom that was learning about plants, Native Americans, Thanksgiving, or farming. This book covered all of these different topics and linked them all to corn. This book answers many questions about corn, but there are also some things that I think students would want to find out because of the new knowledge that they gain from the book. This book could lead to research projects on what was really eaten at the first Thanksgiving and about the different types of corn. I think that this book would also be really well received by students because of the friendly format with which the information was arranged.

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