Bibliographic Information: Steptoe, J. (1998). Stevie. In The 20th Century Children’s Book Treasury. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knope Inc.
Brief Annotation: For a short period of time, a young boy living with his mother experiences life with a younger foster brother. He becomes frustrated with his foster brother, Stevie, as he is forced to play with him. He finds himself upset when Stevie leaves and goes home with his own mother.
Genre: Picture book, Fiction
Grade Level: k-2
Readers who will like this: Children who have siblings; Children who are foster children; Children who live with foster children; Children who have thought they didn’t like someone, but found out later that they did.
Response/Rating: 2; this book is a very good book at explaining a different culture than what most children have at home. I found the simple pictures to be amazing; through color they showed emotion that was being felt by the reader. It was interesting to read a book with a different dialect then my own, which I can imagine would be difficult to read aloud. Overall this was a very well written book, with beautiful pictures.
One question you would ask before a read aloud: Have you ever changed your mind about someone, at first you didn’t like him or her, but once you got to know him or her you did?
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