Bake Sale
Written and Illustrated by: Sara Varon
Published by: First Second 2011
Grades: 3-6
Genre: Graphic Novel
Written and Illustrated by: Sara Varon
Published by: First Second 2011
Grades: 3-6
Genre: Graphic Novel
Synopsis: This graphic novel is about two friends Eggplant and Cupcake. Eggplant is a painter and Cupcake is a baker and in his own band. Eggplant gets an invite from his Aunt to go visit her in Turkey. His aunt works for a magazine which Turkish Delight, a renown baker, is in. Cupcake wants to go with Eggplant and be able to meet Turkish Delight, someone he looks up to. Cupcake quits his band and has a bake sale to save up for his trip. However, Eggplant loses his job and can’t get enough money. Cupcake thinks it is better for Eggplant to go on the trip to see his aunt so he gives him the money he saved up to go on the trip. After Eggplant goes on the trip, Cupcake wishes that he went instead to meet Turkish Delight. When Eggplant comes back from his trip, Cupcake wants to know how it was. Cupcake wants to make his bake sale better so that he can raise more money. He sees a sign for a contest, that reads “Bake Sale” and the prize is 2 tickets to anywhere in the world to go on vacation. Cupcake says no matter what happens it doesn’t matter because his friendship with Eggplant is more important.
About the Author: Sara Varon
Sara grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Her entire life she has been creating characters. She is known by others as a comics artist, printmaker, and illustrator. She is best known for Sweatherweather, a 2003 wordless comic. Her work includes many anthropomorphic animals, robots, snowmen, and baked goods. Her works include Robot Dreams, Chicken and Cat, and Chicken and Cat Clean Up. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sources used: http://www.ipcny.org/exhib/exhib_np/np_bio/varon_sara.htm
Pre-Reading Activities: Introduce what a graphic novel is and the components to it. Show them an example of a strip from a graphic novel and everything that goes into it. Explain that people create these for a living and that it takes a lot of time for them to create. Have the children take notes in the form of Cornell notes in their notebook to keep for a test on it later on.
Graphic Novel information: http://www.scholastic.com/graphix/Scholastic_BoneDiscussion.pdf
Graphic Novel lesson plan: http://www.mycapstonelibrary.com/PDF/GraphicLibrary-LessonPlan.pdf
Cornell note format: http://lsc.sas.cornell.edu/Sidebars/Study_Skills_Resources/cornellsystem.pdf
Post-Reading Activities: Children will continue their own graphic novel ending to the story. They will be given a graphic novel template that they will use to create it. They must have at least four pictures with a caption in each box to go with it. They will do a rough draft of this first, then give to the teacher to check for corrections before they will complete a finished copy to color. The graphic novels will be laminated and displayed around the room to show their ending. After this, they will write a paragraph describing where they would go and why if they won the vacation tickets from the bake sale. They will have to create a paragraph of at least 5-7 sentences.
Graphic Novel Template: http://donnayoung.org/f11/art-f/comic/bgsqstry.pdf
Graphic Novel information: http://www.scholastic.com/graphix/Scholastic_BoneDiscussion.pdf
Graphic Novel lesson plan: http://www.mycapstonelibrary.com/PDF/GraphicLibrary-LessonPlan.pdf
Cornell note format: http://lsc.sas.cornell.edu/Sidebars/Study_Skills_Resources/cornellsystem.pdf
Post-Reading Activities: Children will continue their own graphic novel ending to the story. They will be given a graphic novel template that they will use to create it. They must have at least four pictures with a caption in each box to go with it. They will do a rough draft of this first, then give to the teacher to check for corrections before they will complete a finished copy to color. The graphic novels will be laminated and displayed around the room to show their ending. After this, they will write a paragraph describing where they would go and why if they won the vacation tickets from the bake sale. They will have to create a paragraph of at least 5-7 sentences.
Graphic Novel Template: http://donnayoung.org/f11/art-f/comic/bgsqstry.pdf
Reflection: This was my first encounter with using a graphic novel. I have looked at graphic novels when I was a child, but it wasn’t until now that I really examined a graphic novel. I love the use of this graphic novel and the simplicity it brings with the pictures and short captions that go along with it. I like how the story can have deeper meaning for older children but yet a simpler meaning for younger children reading it too. I think that the length of the graphic novel is a bit long and that children may get bored reading it to find out the ending of the story. However, I also think that the ending leaves teachers a variety of activities and ways that they can incorporate this and the different themes in the book in their classroom.
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