![]() ![]() ![]() Jenny also surprises her teacher with her pictures-first technique. Jenny's writer's block vanishes when her mother points to the pictures she has drawn of the disappearance and says, "They tell a wonderful story." Adding words to her drawings, Jenny reads her imaginative tale of guinea-pig-napping to the classroom. It is a joyous day when their neighbor Mr. As the days pass with Patches still missing, Jenny finds some comfort in drawing pictures of what she imagines might have happened to Patches. Jenny makes posters they put up around town. Worse still, when Jenny gets home she finds that her beloved guinea pig, Patches, is missing. So when her teacher gives a writing assignment, Jenny's first question is, " Could I draw a picture instead?" To Jenny's dismay her teacher clarifies that although pictures are fine, the words must come first. ![]() In this edifying picture book, Kroll ( William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania, 2000) reveals that there is more than one way to tell a story. ![]()
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