Let's Read: Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Go Away,Big Green Monster! is a book of cut-out pages that page by page reveal a monster and then page by page make it disappear. The simple cuts and the bold colors appeal to both young children and old. It is as much of a delight to read to groups of children as it is to just one child snuggled up on your lap.
Go Away, Big Green Monster! is ideal for story hour.There are always requests to Read it again!
Monsters often evoke fear but Ed Emberley has created a safe, lovable monster that obeys when asked to go away leading to a study of emotions and as study of what causes us to react to situations with laughter, excitment or fear.
Taking a look at the artistry of Go Away, Big Green Monster! we will explore similar art styles, discover cultures that use cut-outs to create works of art and experiment with this artistic technique.
Here comes the Big Green Monster! ....
Storyhour with Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Go Away, Big Green Monster! is Understood by Second Language Learners
I have used Go Away, Big Green Monster! for story hour both in the US and in Costa Rica with children as young as 3 and as old as 8th grade with marvelous responses. The story is mostly in the illustrations wile the repetition of the phrase Go Away encourages audience participation making it an ideal book to read with English as a Second Language Learners..There are always requests to Read it again!
Go Away Big Green Monster
Pick up a copy of Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Amazon Price: $7.91 (as of 11/28/2009)
Big Green Monster has two big yellow eyes...
The story builds up adding layer upon layer of facial characteristics.
A Big Green Monster to Help you Face Your Fears
Monster stories for Beginning Readers
Big Green Monster is Lost
The Big Green Monster helps children face their fears. Practice telling the monster when to come and when to go away. Snuggle with the Big Green Monster while listening to scary stories. Ask the Big Green Monster to guard the scary stories when you are not ready to listen to them.
Children love to hear the story of the Big Green Monster read to them over and over again. To give purpose to a new form of writing we pretend that the Big Green Monster is missing.
Children delight in the idea that the Big Green Monster has helped them so much in getting rid of their fears that he is now lost. We talk about how people make posters to help find their lost pets and then make posters to help find the Big Green Monster.
Children practice writing words, painting creatively to express an idea and think about ways to persuade others to action by making these posters.
The children hang posters all around the school. After lunch we find that the Big Green Monster was so scared that he hid .... We bring him out and everyone takes turns giving him a hug and then we read the story again.
"Go Away, Big Green Monster! And don't come back, ...
until I say so."
Helping your Child Overcome Fear
Monsters Under the Bed and Other Childhood Fears: Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
Amazon Price: $23.00 (as of 11/28/2009)
How do you feel about Go Away, Big Green Monster?
Do you and your children love it?
Children squeal with delight whenever I pull out Go Away, Big Green Monster! to read to them. They love to join in with the admonition Go Away, Big Green Monster! in the second half of the book as the monster disappears page by page.
Note: Though nearly all children love the intensity of the book, for a very few the monster is just too real.
Did reading Go Away, Big Green Monster! help your child to overcome fears of monsters?
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Go Away, Big Green Monster Glyphs
Creating Big Green Monsters
- Activities to Accompany Go Away, Big Green Monster
Go away big green monster! Graphing eye color.
Big Green Monster Glyph and Class- Glyphs for Kids: How to Create Glyphs | Suite101.com
- Glyphs are non standard graphs to display a variety of information. The graphs are used to represent educational and personal information.
- Go away big green monster! pattern pieces in color
- Pattern pieces for creating Go away big green monster! glyphs.
- Go away big green monster! pattern pieces in Black and White
- Pattern pieces for creating Go away big green monster! glyphs.
Molas
The Cut Through Art of the Cuna Indians of Panama
Each page in Go Away, Big Green Monster is a solid color with shapes for the various features of the monster's face cut out. Molas are made from layers of cloth with shapes cut out to reveal the colors of the layers underneath creating the patterns.
Similar to the way Ed Emberley uses cut-out holes to reveal the design, the Cuna Indians of Panama use a cut-out technique to make colorful designs in their clothing.
Native Indian Artwork, Mola, PanamaPhotographic Print
Bachmann, Bill
Buy at AllPosters.com
If you are working with multi-ages or are homeschooling children of various different ages and abilities, connecting the Molas with Go Away, Big Green Monster will help to include the older children. These older children might try cutting and sewing their own Molas as well as look for other world cultures that use cut-outs in their arts and crafts.
Mola: Cuna Life Stories and Art
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 11/28/2009)
The Adjectives in Go Away Big Green Monster
Go Away Big Green Monster is a story of Adjectives
Each page in Go Away Big Green Monster highlights different parts of the monster's face. The words describing those parts are well chosen adjectives that add to the suspense of the story. You might like to follow up a reading of Go Away Big Green Monster with a study of adjectives:-
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Ed Emberley's official site
Learn more about Ed Emberley and his incredible artwork!
- Ed Emberley's official site
- Caldecott winner for Drummer Hoff, author and illustrator of more than 80 books, including Go Away Big Green Monster, The Wing on a Flea, ...
Ed Emberley on Wikipedia
Edward Randolph Emberley (born October 19, 1931 in Malden, MassachusettsUSM biography) is an American artist and illustrator.
More books by Ed Emberley
Besides writing Go Away, Big Green Monster, Ed Emberley also wrote:
Ed Emberley's style can easily be imitated by children. I keep a copy of the Drawing Book of Faces in the art center when we are studying Go Away, Big Green Monster. The children love to use it to help in illustrating stories that they write about monsters.
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Faces (REPACKAGED) (Ed Emberley Drawing Books) by Ed Emberley
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- Rewards4life Rewards4life Apr 9, 2009 @ 7:08 am
- Looks interesting. Must be a perfect read for the children. =)
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- Jimmie Jimmie Apr 7, 2009 @ 1:29 am
- I would love this book, I'm sure! Ed Emberly's drawing books are wonderful too!
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- lakeerieartists lakeerieartists Apr 7, 2009 @ 12:08 am
- Another excellent resource.
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