Summer

The children were asked to read Diana Mayo's "The House That Jack Built" along with Aardema's "Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain" in order to compare them. They learned that both are cumulative stories. They were encouraged to add the word cumulative to their vocabularies by making up their own short, cumulative stories and repeating the word cumulative in front of the group.

Three of the children summarized the comparisons of the books using the concept of cumulative stories.

Sherelle Harris
Children's Librarian
So. Norwalk Librarian

"Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain" and "The House that Jack Built" are both made up of cummulative words, with the same sentence but different words are added on.
--Emerald K

"The House That Jack Built" and "Bringing The Rain to Kapiti Plain" have some of the same ideas. They both have animals in the books. In both books the information repeats.
--Tim H.

Something that both books had in common were that they were both cumulative. Cumulative means to build on the book "Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain" was about Ki-pat who helped bring the rain to Kapiti Plain because the rain was very belated. "The house that Jack Built" was about Jack. He Built a house and all these things and animals were in it and it builds on which is cumulative.

My favorite part of "The House that Jack Built" was when the maiden all forlorn and the man all tattered and torn got married. My favorite part of "Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain" was when Ki-pat got a son named Ki-pat. Both stories are cumulative which means to build on and they also have in common that they both rhyme. My favorite rhymes comparing the two books are the ones in "Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain". The books were confusing because they were building on so many lines and they all rhymed. That is the end of my book review! --Joann P.