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Title: Pinky and Rex
Author and Illustrator: James Howe and Melissa Sweet
Publication Year: 1990
Title: Pinky and Rex
Author and Illustrator: James Howe and Melissa Sweet
Publication Year: 1990
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Plot summary: Pinky and Rex are best friends that live next door to each other. One morning Pinky's little sister wakes him up to go to the museum. Pinky is very excited to get to go to the museum with his best friend Rex, but both aren't really sure that they want Amanda to come. At the museum Amanda is bored but Pinky loves looking at the animals and Rex loves the dinosaurs. At the end of the trip they go to the gift shop. Pinky, Rex, and Amanda all want the same stuffed animal pink dinosaur. But they do not have enough money to buy it separately so they buy it together and decide to share it. Series: Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee Pinky and Rex Go To Camp Pinky and Rex Get Married Pinky and Rex and the Bully Pinky and Rex and the New Baby Pink and Rex and the Mean Old Witch Pinky and Rex and the School Play Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin Pinky and Rex and the New Neighbors | Strong vocabulary: Canoe, tyrannosaurus, stegosaurus, pterodactly, ores, and quartz are all terms used at the museum. Students will have a hard time sounding out the words but with the help of context clues, images and maybe even an adult they will be able to figure it out. Figurative Language: The names of the children reflect their interests. For example Pinky loves pink (alliteration) and Rex loves dinosaurs (Rex is short for T-Rex or tyrannosaurus-rex). Relationship of Pictures to Words: The pictures and words have complementary relationship. Not every page has a picture so the words fill in the gaps of information left out by the pages without pictures. Themes/Central concepts:
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