Tweak Tweak

Tweak Tweak
Written by Eve Bunting and Illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier
Publisher: Clarion Books
2011
Grade: Pre-K-K
Themes: Love, discovery and curiosity

Summary: This book is about a mother and baby elephant going on a walk. Mother elephant tells the baby elephant to tweak twice if he has a question. As they are walking, baby elephant becomes very curious and asks his mother about the frog, monkey, songbird, butterfly and crocodile. He especially wants to know what elephants can do.

Reflection: This is a great book for younger children.This book is all about discovery and curiosity. Younger readers will learn something about the animals just like the baby elephant did. The illustrations of the animals are very cute. I like the question and answer format of the story and the animal sounds.

Pre-Reading: I would tell the children a little bit about the book. Baby elephant has lots of questions for his mother about the animals they see on their walk. Some of the animals they see are frogs, monkeys, butterflies and crocodiles.

Post-Reading: I would tell the children to think about their favorite animal. They will draw that animal on a piece of construction paper. Then they will think about a question they have about that animal. They will write the question next to their drawing, a teacher will help them with this. We will also talk about the question mark before completing this activity.

About the Author:

Eve Bunting grew up in Ireland. Bunting moved to California with her husband and children. She had a strong desire to write and had many ideas from all her family in Ireland's stories. She enrolled in a Writing for Publication class at a local college. She has written many books with a variety of topics and books for all ages. Picture books are her favorite to write. She has won many awards.