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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

THE LAND OF LOST THINGS/ EL PAIS DE LAS COSAS PERDIDAS














Author (last name first):
Bursztyn, Dina
Publisher, Date of Publication: 
Arte Pulico Press/ 2011

Grade Level/ or Age Level: 
Kindergarten-3rd
Classification:Fiction 


This is an imaginative story of a boy who loses his blue pencil and wonders where it has gone. His wonderings lead him through another world, i.e. a world of the lost things. Along his imaginary trip in the world of the lost, the boy finds other items that he has lost in the past: e.g. a gold button, a pair of scissors, a mitten, and a sock. These items take on different forms and functions in the land of the lost, but the boy recognizes each one. Although the boy encounters familiar belongings, he does not find his blue pencil. The book ends with the boy choosing to continue his drawing with a brown pencil and his wonderings and make-believe worlds aloud, in writing and though drawings. There are endless possibilities for lesson applications and the use of this book. 

Reviewed By: Angelina Chapa (Graduate Student, West College of Education)

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