Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 3.3
Lexile Measure®: 520L
DRA: 38
Guided Reading: O
Genre
- Fables, Folk Tales and Myths
- General Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Social Studies
- American History
- Story Elements
- Character and Values
- Courage, Bravery, Heroism
- Culture and Diversity
- Honor
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About This Book
The legendary figure is captured in this striking picture book. The finest work this artist has done, both words and pictures catch the very essence of John Henry's fierce pride, a man to shame mere machines. Book Week.About the Authors or Illustrators
An American author and illustrator of children's books, Ezra Jack Keats illustrated jackets for adult and juvenile books and provided drawings for almost a dozen children's books by other authors before he wrote The Snowy Day (1962), one of the first picture books in which the central character is a minority child. It won the Caldecott Medal.
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