Skippyjon Jones: Lost in Spice
Written and Illustrated by Judy Schachner
Dutton Children's Books, 2009
30 pages
Fantasy
“Holy green gorillas,” gulped Skippito. “It's a Martian-ito!”
Skippyjon Jones LOVES Mars. He loves it so much that he borrows some red spice from his mom so that he can turn his bed into Mars. Soon Skippyjon Jones finds himself on a Martian adventure. He joins his friends on the surface of Mars. He gets separated from his friends and makes friends with a one eyed martin who looks almost like him, minus the fact that he only has one eye. Skippyjon finds his way back to his friends and soon comes face to face with five green Martians. His twin is with the group and he has to fight his twin for his sock monkey. The Martian twin lets go of his sock monkey and Skippyjon is sent flying back into his bedroom out of his closet door.
Schachner used acrylics, pen, and ink to create the illustrations for this book. Schachner uses lots of vibrant color in this book. She mainly uses red since the main setting is Mars. While Skippyjon is in space she uses lots of reds for the surface of Mars and dark blues for the surrounding sky. The way she uses the colors makes the reader feel like they are actually on the surface of Mars. She does a great job of making the reader feel like they are actually on Mars.
This book would be great for younger children. Young children would really relate to Skippyjon's imagination. This book would be a great book to read during a space unit. This book would also be a great book to read as a basis for a writing assignment about what students think they would find on Mars. Also the book contains lots of Spanish words so as the teacher reads the story the teacher could teach them what the words mean. It would be great to use in a class that had some ELL students because the teacher could have them help her translate the words.
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