Discuss what the characters on the page are doing and what the characters off the page might be doing at the same time. Prompt students to look for details that might tell them what time of day it is on different pages (the color of the sky, the absence or presence of electric lights, etc.). Rats are nocturnal animals and most of their scenes in the book happen at night or dawn. RAT FAIR can be used to talk about sequencing and time of day. For example: How many different words can you make from the letters in RAT ART FAIR? (Be forewarned one of them is FART!)
You can also pick any word or phrase and ask the students to see how many new words they can make by rearranging the letters.
You can use this as a jumping off point to explore other anagrams such as STOP and POTS. RAT and ART, two of the three words used in the book, are anagrams. How might a teacher or librarian use your book in the classroom? My wish is that readers feel like they’ve been welcomed into the rats’ secret world and leave with a sense that they’ve been included in something special. I hope the rich illustrations in this book feel as warm and inviting to young readers as they do to me. What do you hope your young readers will take away from your book? On a deeper level it’s a story about perseverance, creativity, and kindness.
It’s a light-hearted look at what would happen if rats set about building a fair for themselves. RAT FAIR is a nearly wordless picture book about a group of rats who find letters fallen from an ART FAIR sign and put them back together to spell RAT FAIR. This nearly wordless picture book is full of so much kindness and joy–I just love it! And wait until you see the amazing tools Leah has to offer for using Rat Fair in your classroom! You will LOVE this! I am so thrilled to welcome my friend and debut group member Leah Rose Kessler to the blog to talk about her new picture book Rat Fair.
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