Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Psychic Pets

Title: Psychic Pets, supernatural true stories of paranormal animals

Author: John Sutton

Publisher: Scholastic Inc. www.scholastic.com

Publication date: March 1998

Genre: Animals

Audience: Gr. 6 - 8

Overview: Psychic Pets is a compilation of different stories of animals that have done unusual actions or saved their owners lives across the world. It also explains how different animals have been seen along the history by humans. The book also includes explanations about some behaviors and offers tests and open discussion questions for the readers.

Activity: It could be suitable to let the children do the test on the book and compare results within smalls groups. Also, in groups of three of four they could read a story to the rest of the class and discuss their feelings about it within them and show them to their mates, also using the questions provided in the book. It could be interesting also if they could espress their personal feelings about pets and their experience with them to their mates.

Reviewer's Name: Luis Jar

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