“The cat knew them all, and they all knew the cat“
I would love to use this book in my classroom to describe that we are all unique and see things in a different light, just like the cat! That does not make one right/wrong, and embrace our differences!
pickThey all saw a cat, by Brendan Wenzel published in 2016, won a Caldecott award in 2017. This book was a great picture book showing the different perspectives of how we see the world. There were lots of different shapes and sizes and colors of characters to show the way that animal “sees“ the world. Not only was there lots of texture and color but the theme flowed beautifully throughout exploring the unique illustration.
You can use this story and relate it to science. You could do how different animals' eyes work, preditor and prey, and also the habitats of the different animals that were mentioned.
pickThis book was a Caldecott winner in 2017. The pictures show how different animals all view a cat and sometimes the emotion that comes with that (ex: the mouse). I also read this as a cat being seen by the world as a whole. Being visible and not feeling alone. The different uses of colors, patterns/methods represent texture and feeling.
I think this would be a great book to use in an elementary art classroom when teaching students about lines, patterns, and perspectives.
pickCaldecott Honor Book 2017
Within the story, there is a lot of contrast in terms of the colors, the patterns, and the perspectives used. I like how there is contrast between different animals throughout. The illustrator uses various patterns to show art through different ways. The illustrators uses dots, lines, various medias (pencils, shading, coloring)
