Sandra SteenBesprekingen

This book is about two children that are in a car wash and all the different places their imagination take them while inside. For example, they see the giant scrubbers and they see it as a giant octopus.
media - oil pastel??

Reading this picture book put a smile across my face throughout the whole story. When I first saw this book in the store, I immediately know I had to buy it just because I loved the illustrations so much! Each illustration fills the entire page and appears in a “scrap book look” with pictures cut and pasted together, beads glued on, 3D stickers, and colored pencil drawings. In my favorite illustration, the “seaweed”, which is what the twins refer to the mop-like cleaners in the car wash, takes up three-fourths of the pages and appears to be turquoise pieces of felt glued onto a painted yellow pole. I had to touch the page just to make sure that this photo is not 3D. Next the language in this book is written similar to the style of a poem. The sentences are very short, and include tons of metaphors that relate the car wash to being under the sea. For example, the book says “What’s that? Giant arms. Octopus. Whomp! Thomp!” In this scene, the twins were describing the giant rag that moves the soap around on the car to be an octopus. With this example, you can see that there are not many complete sentences on that page. This type of writing appears to be the same way children speak when they are just beginning to learn how to talk, which makes this book very relatable to children. Overall, the plot of this story was very interesting with the way the authors made the car wash appear to be a submarine ride under the sea. I thought that this was very neat because children have very vivid imaginations just like that. The big idea of this story is for the readers to allow their imagination to wonder. As soon as I began reading, my imagination began to wonder as I pictured a carwash like being under the sea.

Realistic fiction. It is a very easy read, lower levels like kinder or 1st. The story is about a family going out for lunch but first they need to go to the car wash. They go inside the car wash and the kids are all entertained they pretend they are in the ocean with all the animals. After the car is washed they go get lunch.

This book breaks all the grammer rules but is a great little book for car wash.

I love reading this book to kids because they really like the imagination part and they like yelling car wash at the end!!

Review: While sitting inside their car, two children enjoy the interesting sights and sounds of the car wash.
Genre: Fantasy
Critique: While this book is dealing with a real event (the car wash), it turns it into a fantastical underwater event. This is done using figurative language, as each part of the car wash is given an underwater metaphor. For this reason, the book could be more informational than fantasy (as it is supposed to be metaphorical rather than real), but the pictures definitely tip it more onto the side on fantasy.

Age: Primary
Genre: Fantasy
Media: Gouache, acrylics, pencil and objects
Review: This book is fantasy because as the children go through the car wash in their car they imagine the being under the sea and parts of the car wash being animals. The illustrations represent this fantasy world that the children are creating.
Use: read to enjoy, imaginative writing prompt, art lesson

While sitting inside their car, two children enjoy the soapy sights and watery sounds of the car wash.

This is the story of a family who goes through a car wash and of the two children imagining it as an underwater journey with attacks from sharks, and octopuses, sharks, and hurricanes. It is a very simple book with a lot of onomatopoeia and few complete sentences.

Media: Collage (acrylic paint, colored pencil, and lots more!)

two kids use their imagination when going through the car wash, they use their imagination and go under the ocean and experience many different experience and animals.

A good example of fantasy because it tells the story of a family who has the joy of going through an automated car wash and in it finds things like a coral reef and an octopus. The wavy brushes become seaweed and the showers bring about a hurricane. Ultimately, this book walks through the imaginations of the children in the car and allow the reader to use their own imagination. The story itself is amusing and entertaining with the exterior of the car being initially dirty, going through the car wash to clean it, getting lunch, and ending with the interior of the car being dirty. This story easily relates to every family who has had the opportunity to go through a car wash and see the sights while venturing through it. The use of onomatopoeia is rich in this book as are short phrases in place of complete sentences. The clear intent of the authors is for the reader to use their own imagination in reading the book as well as in everyday life.

Media: mixed media

This is a very basic example of fantasy. It is about a little boy who goes through the car wash but while in there is in the ocean, etc. It is a fun story that seems believable because I think students have been through car washes and I know I used my imagination in car washes when I was young. But it's fantasy in that the car wash transports the car to a whole different place.
The setting is not necessarily believable, but is very fitting for the story. They go through the ocean and under water, which is likely for a child to imagine in a car wash. They author does not really explain the setting very much, but the illustrations depict them very well so the reader feels like they could be there.
Age Appropriateness: Primary
Media: Mixed Media

This book is a good example of fantasy because it takes place in a car wash which is a realistic setting, but then the car is transported to different places as it goes through the car wash, like coral reefs, and dark caves. The characters in this story are flat because we do not get to know them and they are static because they do not go through any changes, what is more important than the characters in this book is what happens in their imagination as they go through the car was.
Media Used: Mixed Media
Age Appropriateness: Primary and Intermediate

A fun playful book for very young learners. It will use a lot of imagination to read aloud. Very short but will be fun.

Better for younger students. It had fun illustrations and showed how a car wash can be an adventure.