Summary:
I read Toothpaste from Start to
Finish, by Tonya Lee Stone. The book
is a nonfiction book and explains to the reader how toothpaste is made from the
beginning (when it is first created), to the end (once it is packaged and
placed on the shelf).
Evaluation of genre:
The genre for this book would be
nonfiction. This book was very
informative on how toothpaste is made.
The author, Tanya Lee Stone used the Tom’s Toothpaste manufacturing
company to explain to the reader how they make their all-natural
toothpaste. The book is very informative
of how process begins, how the process progresses, and how the toothpaste is
filled in the tubes and packaged to be shipped to be placed on the shelf. Jill Brady was the photographer for this
book, she took many pictures to accompany the words so that the reader would be
able to not only read about how toothpaste is made, but they could also see the
process. I believe her pictures were
perfect.
Questions to Ask:
Have you ever heard of Tom's All-Natural Toothpaste?
What toothpaste do you use?
Do you know of any other all-natural products?
What did you like about the book?
Why do you think it is best to use all-natural products?
Do you think there is a different taste between the toothpaste you use and Tom's all-natural toothpaste?
Motivational
activities:
The children could create a
newspaper with the headlines “The Day We Went To Tom’s”. The children could write an editorial on
which toothpaste is better all-natural toothpaste or toothpaste made with
ingredients that we are unable to read.
The children could create advertisements for the different flavors for
the all-natural toothpaste. And the
children could pretend that they went to Main and visited the manufacturing
company and interviewed the founders of Tom’s all-natural products Tom and Kate
Chappell, and “interview” them as to why they decide to create this great
all-natural product.
The
children could write an Once/Now essay explaining how once on the grocery
shelves there were only toothpaste products that had ingredients that we were
not sure what the ingredients were made of or how to pronounce the names of the
ingredients. The children could explain why this product would not be such a
good idea to use. Then the children
could write their Now part of the essay explaining how there is Tom’s
toothpaste which is all natural. The
children could explain what the ingredients are in Tom’s toothpaste and why
they think that this toothpaste is better to use.
My Thoughts:
This is a great nonfiction
book! I think this book is the
equivalent of taking a field trip without actually going on a field trip. This book also opens up children’s minds to
know that there are careers that they could one day have when they are
older. I also liked this book because it interviewed
the founders of Tom’s toothpaste Tom and Kate Chappell and allowed them to
explain why they started their all-natural business. I think that this is great for children to
see that they if they are worried about how something may affect them they can
make changes. This was a very good book
because the book not only explained the how something is made, but it also
explained the why behind it.
Tanya Lee Stone writes many
nonfiction books. She was raised in a
home that was filled with books. When
she was growing up she would write stories and draw illustrations that would go
along with the stories. Miss Stone went
to Oberlin College where she studied English once she graduated she moved to
New York and became an editor. She has
written many nonfiction books and she has also written fiction books and
poetry.
References
Cullinan, B. & Galda L. & Sipe L.
(2010) Literature and the Child. 7th
Ed. Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Stone, T.L.
(2001). Toothpaste: From Start to Finish.
Blackbirtch Press. Woodbridge, CT.
Stone, T.L.
(2013). Tonya Lee Stone. Retrieved
from http://www.tanyastone.com/bio.html
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