Summary: Napi is a story about a young Mazateca girl who lives with her poor family in Mexico on a riverbank. Every day the family sits together under a tree to listen to her grandfather tell stories. With each afternoon that comes, so does another color of life. Napi appreciates the brilliant orange, calm purple and dark green colors of the forest each day. She finds beauty in both day and night and dreams of becoming one of the herons that live in the tree on the river bank so she can fly peacefully and view from above the breathtaking colors of her habitat.
Implementation: In the classroom, this book would be great to teach that beauty can be found in anything. Tradition is also instilled in this story in regards to her grandfather telling stories. The illustrations in this story are wonderful. I think a neat activity to do with students would be to give them an image of something plain and “ugly” and have them color it with bright colors then write a story about it using strong adjectives to explain their illustration.
No comments:
Post a Comment