This month we decided that the books that should compete are Sisters by Raina Telgemeier and Cardboard By Doug TenNapel.
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The book Sisters is about Raina and her sister Amara always fighting nonstop. One day when they went on a road trip to Colorado to go see their family, they started to get closer and closer to each other.
The book Cardboard was about a little boy named Cam who lost his mother and his dad had to take care of him. When it was Cam’s birthday his dad didn’t have any money so he bought him cardboard to make something with him, but the cardboard was magical and this neighbor name Marcus stole some and started to make monsters that come to life and take over the world.
We decided we should go to 3 and 4 grade. A lot of the students in 3rd grade chose Cardboard and in fourth grade it was even- some kids chose Cardboard and Sisters.
This up here is the graph of how many voted for Cardboard and Sisters. Sisters has 84 votes and Cardboard has 103 votes.One of the 4th graders said “I love how Cardboard has adventure and action”. Another 4th grade said that sisters reminds me of me and sister and how we fight a lot but not as much anymore.The rest of the 4th and 3rd grades said that the both books are very funny and grabs their attention.As we can all see Cardboard won, but both of the books are special in their own ways.
In my opinion i think anybody of any age can read these both books, but I only chose 4th and 3rd grade because those are the grades I read those books. Honestly, I think that a lot of the kids chose the book that grabbed their attention, but it doesn’t matter if the book has a pretty cover or not its about if the book inspires you or catches your attention about what is happening.Maybe next time digital committee will choose a two book that are easier and will catch the little kids attention.
Stay tune for next month which we will be doing Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi vs Bone by Jeff Smith.