Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People Ear By: Verna Aardema

Book Genre: Fiction/Multicultural Literature

Publishing Info: Dial Books INC and 32 pages

Awards or honors received: The Caldecott Medal

Summary: This book is an African story of a Mosquito who tells a story to an iguana. The iguana does not want to listen to the story, so he puts sticks in his ears and walks off which start a lot of events. All in all the Mosquito is at fault for all the events that happened.

Personal rating and reason for rating: *** Good – I think its good because of the way the author can pull the readers in with the pictures and the story.

Reading level: 4.0

Interest level: K-3

Possible uses of the text in integrated units of study (reading and writing across the curriculum):
This book could be used to demonstrate how stories change from person to person. The students could line up and play the telephone game. This is where the first student starts a sentences and passes it to the next until you reach the last person and that person tells what they heard.

This book could be used for sequencing activities. Students could sequence the events that happen in the story.

Potential Problems or Difficulties: I don’t see any.