Yo! Yes?

Raschka, C. (1993). Yo! Yes?. New York: Orchard Books.

Summary: Two characters of different cultures become friends on a street using unique words. This story would be great when a new student arrives or at the beginning of the year when every body is sad, lonely and have little friends.

Reflection:  The artistic style used in this book is expressionistic.  On each page the two characters express their feelings and emotions through exaggeration.  It looks like they are acting out what they are saying through their body language.  The artistic media helps convey this style because pastel colors are used on the background while bright colors are used on the characters.  The illurstations are doublespread and extend over the facing of two pages.  Each character is looking at each other from each page.  The characters and words stand out in this story because the letters are in bold print and the character have a spot light shining on them and their shadows are showing. 

Questions:

1. Ask students to look at punctuation used.

2. Ask students to predict what will happen in the story.