readers journal #13 When I Was Your Age

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

            I have just finished reading a great book called “when I was your age”. This book was edited Amy Ehrlich. The significance of this book is that it is written by a couple of people from when they were very young. I picked this book because I am curious on how other people lived when they were very young. There were six things I did before, while, and after reading this book. First there were 2 things I did before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this book is that I skimmed and scanned through the whole of the book to see what it will or might look like. Another thing I did before reading this is I focused on the cover page on the front and noticed the list of people written at bottom half part of the book. Second there were two things I did while reading this book. One thing I did while reading this book is I imagined every scene in the book according to what I remember. Another thing I did while reading this book is after each short story I would stop and memorize everything that happened. Third there were two things I did after reading this book. One thing I did after reading this book is went to every story to memorize what had happened. Another thing I did while reading this book is whatever I forgot or didn’t understand I would go through.

            The genre of this book is non-fiction memoir. A summary statement of this book would be “a book about other people when they were very young” and this is stated another title for this book “would be my life as a child.” The rest of this reader’s journal will be based on one of the six stories. On supporting detail is shrimp and this detail is factual. Another supporting detail is small and this is also factual. The third supporting detail was large and this too is factual. The essential message of this book is that size really doesn’t matter. A cause and effect in this story is the size of Paul is the cause and him getting bullied is the effect.one way I can compare Paul to my life is that we are both boys. One way I can contrast

Paul to my life is that he was short for his age and I am tall for my age. There were a total of five text features that I found in this book.

1.     Title- helps and gives the reader what the book will look like

2.     Sub-title- helps tell the reader what the following few paragraphs will be about.

3.     Italics- helps tells the reader and important word.

4.     Photographs- this helps the reader get a picture of what character looks like.

There was no other text feature other then theses that I had found the pattern of organization in this book is flashback. The authors purpose of writing this book is to inform the readers of other peoples lives when they were young.  The author’s perspective is that Paul as a little boy didn’t have a lot of fun. The point of view in this book is first person. There weren’t any vocabulary in this book that I didn’t understand.

            (text-to-self) This book reminds me of other boys in my class that are very short.

            (text-to-text) This book reminds me of the book bullies where it is about a bully who always picks on little kids and not people his own size.

            (text-to-world) This book reminds me of all the people in the world who are very short for example my brother who is 15 and my height.

            I would recommend this book to people who curious about adults when they were little kids. If I was in this authors shoes I would never be able to live.

            If I was to rate this book out of ten I would give it a ten out of ten because of the good idea and the valid information of the people.