Recommended Grades K-2. In Max Celebrates Ramadan (Picture Window Books, 2009) developing readers can go with Max, a young boy with a round and smiling face, to his friend Omar's house to join in Eid-Al-Fitr ("Celebration of the end of fasting") feast. Omar and his extended family teach Max the traditions of the Islamic month of Ramadan and share their celebration with him. Illustrated by Mernie Gallagher-Cole in simple lines and bright hues, characters are represented with a variety of skin tones but with the commonality of round, laughing, smiling faces. Author Adria F. Worsham works in new vocabulary having to do with the Islamic holiday within a repetitive structure designed for newly developing readers as part of their Read-it! Series. This easy-reader is labeled under the Red Level, specially designed to "present familiar topics using common words and repeating sentence patterns," according to the Read-it! guide on the opening page. Though sentences are simple and repeat in structure, struggling readers may trip over the non-familiar words that don't follow the phonetic structures they may be learning. With the guidance of a mature reader, young readers can learn as much as Max about Islamic holidays and traditions. Recommended, ***
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Max Celebrates Ramadan
Recommended Grades K-2. In Max Celebrates Ramadan (Picture Window Books, 2009) developing readers can go with Max, a young boy with a round and smiling face, to his friend Omar's house to join in Eid-Al-Fitr ("Celebration of the end of fasting") feast. Omar and his extended family teach Max the traditions of the Islamic month of Ramadan and share their celebration with him. Illustrated by Mernie Gallagher-Cole in simple lines and bright hues, characters are represented with a variety of skin tones but with the commonality of round, laughing, smiling faces. Author Adria F. Worsham works in new vocabulary having to do with the Islamic holiday within a repetitive structure designed for newly developing readers as part of their Read-it! Series. This easy-reader is labeled under the Red Level, specially designed to "present familiar topics using common words and repeating sentence patterns," according to the Read-it! guide on the opening page. Though sentences are simple and repeat in structure, struggling readers may trip over the non-familiar words that don't follow the phonetic structures they may be learning. With the guidance of a mature reader, young readers can learn as much as Max about Islamic holidays and traditions. Recommended, ***
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