Bibliographic Citation: Wood, Audrey. Silly Sally. Harcourt Children's Books, 1992. 32 pages. ISBN: 978-0152744281.
Format: Paperback
Age Group: Ages 3-4 Years
Annotation: Sally has an upside down adventure on her way into town.
Reflection: Silly Sally is funny story that continually repeats the line “Silly Sally went to town, _______ backwards, upside down” throughout the book. Subsequent pages show Sally meeting various animals and the text uses rhyming and action verbs to describe the interaction. The main line is repeated but with the substitution of the new action verb introduced in that scene. The book teaches animal names and action verbs, and gives children the opportunity to make a prediction about what happens on the next page. After meeting the sheep, Sally and the animals fall asleep, “Now how did Sally get to town, sleeping backwards, upside down?” is asked to get children to guess. The next page brings in a new character, Neddy Buttercup who does the opposite of Sally, “walking forwards, right side up.” The following pages show him tickling the animals one-by-one and repeats the action verb associated with the animal, prompting children to repeat what they remember happening previously in the book. The book ends with Sally being woke up by Neddy Buttercup and tickling him back, and Sally getting to town “walking backwards, upside down” which is repeated from the first line of the book.
Categorization Tags: Humorous stories, Stories in Rhyme
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