Pistes d'exploration

Make predictions as the book is read aloud. Do you get better at predicting as you make your way through the book?

Discuss the different pairs of things. Find other ways that the pairs are alike. 

Answer the question at the back of the book. Make a class book of the answers along with the pictures that go with them.

Invent other pairs following the style of the book.

Make a list of things that are usually in pairs: salt and pepper, horse and carriage, peanut butter and jelly, etc.

Choral read along with the story. Predict possible answers before turning each page. 

Talk about what you see in the pictures.

Using the book as a model, create a class list of things that are alike. 

Create a picture book using the story as a model. Begin with the comparison at the end of the book. 

Did You Say Pears?, Up Above and Down Below

Mots-clés

Humour , Picture book , absurd , comparisons , differences , questions

Commentaire descriptif

This quirky, offbeat picture book presents over a dozen pairs of related items, such as a bike and a motorcycle, a spoon and a fork, a cupcake and ice cream, and others, and asks why they are alike. For the answer, readers are invited to turn the page, where a completely unexpected response, comically illustrated in gouache, watercolour and ink, awaits them. How, for example, are a starfish and an octopus alike? “They both don't knit,” is the clever reply. Children will especially enjoy “How are trousers and underpants alike?” followed up by a pair of proper Parisian ladies in a restaurant wearing these items on their heads because—of course—“They both don't make good hats.” Imbued with a child-friendly sense of humour and concluding with an open-ended comparison, this book invites creative thinking and stretches the imagination.