Eric Carle - Today Is Monday
Eric Carle, "Today Is Monday"
Children's E-Book | Putnam Juvenile | 1993 | ISBN 0698115635 | PDF | 1.16 MB | 12 Pages
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3– Featuring the artist's familiar bold and colorful style, this song was originally illustrated as a frieze in 1977. Now adapted as a picture book, it is a joyous invitation to "all the hungry children"–shown at a multiethnic banquet at the end of the book–to ". . . Come and eat it up!" Each double-page spread shows a line from the song, with a different animal for each day of the week, eating a different food. Most of the animals are eating a predictable food (a fox with a chicken, a pelican with a fish), but there are some nonsensical scenes (a snake with spaghetti, an elephant eating "zoop"). Overall, the verse has a catchy, cumulative rhythm, but it's the dazzling illustrations–gorgeously displayed with a mastery of design and form–that make this a simple, yet memorable, picture book. –Cyrisse Jaffee, Newton Public Schools, MA