Teacher's Pets # 5

1.      Author: Dayle Ann Dodds
2.      Title: Teacher’s Pets
3.      Illustrator: Marylin Hafner
4.      Genre: Picture book/Fiction
5.      Theme: Pets, classroom environment, and responsibility
6.      Primary and secondary Characters: Ms. Fry and Moe the Cricket
7.      Date of Publication: 2006
8.      Publication Company: Candlewick Press

In Ms. Fry’s classroom it is share day and all of her students bring in their animals.  The students are only supposed to bring their animals for one day but Ms. Fry takes care of a variety of pets until the very last day of class.  All of the students took home their pets except for one student that decided to leave his beloved pet behind.  I would us this book of a young age group to teach them the different sounds that animals make.  I would also read this book to my class before or after we have a day of show and tell.