This is a wonderful picture book about the life of a scarecrow. The writer, Cynthia Rylant does a great job writing from the perspective of an actual scarecrow. The text has great detail about the setting and the features of this particular scarecrow. Lauren Stringer, the illustrator, does a wonderful job with the pictures and setting the tone and scene of where this scarecrow lives.
I would use this book in my classroom during a writing lesson. Along with characters and plot, almost all stories need to have a setting. It is one of the parts of a story that makes it truly special and unique to that particular piece. I want my future students to be like scarecrows in their writing, looking around and doing a great job describing what they see through the button eyes.
I want to read this book. This book sounds like it would be a great book to use if you wanted to give examples of a setting when writing in your classroom ;)
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