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Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Empty Pot

Demi. (1996) The Empty Pot. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Brief Annotation: Ping is a little boy and like all the other children is given a seed to make a plant grow for the emperor. For whoever grows the bigggest and best plant will be the next emperor. But Ping's plant does not grow no matter how much he takes care of it and has to bring an empty pot to the emperor despite everyone else's big plant. He then find out what the emperor was up to all along.

Genre: Fiction(culturally diverse)

Grade Level: K-4

Readers who will like this: Readers who like culturally diverse stories and stories about the underdog making it on top.

Response/Rating: 4; I loved this story and felt the pain poor Ping was going through and then got all excited about the ending of the story.

Question: Have you ever felt not good enough or like you let someone down?
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