Kelly's+book+report

**Name: Date:** 11/30/09 __ **Book Report** __ **Directions: Answer all 8 of the questions/statements in complete sentences. Feel free to add a related picture to your report.** **1.** ** What is the title of your book and who is the author?** Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett illustrated by Brett Helquist. **2.** ** Name and describe two main characters.** Calder he is very good at detecting things and is very brave, and Petra is a girl and she is basecly the same as Calder brave and good at detectig things. **3.** **Write a summary of your book.** This book is called Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett and Illustrated by Brett Helquist. A painting called Vermeer has been stolen and 2 kids Calder and Petra want to find out who stole the painting so they set out to find Vermeer. The kids called a museam to see if a painting called Vermeer was there because the kids got a letter saying things about Vermeer the lady said it is not because there is a show. In the news paper o the fist page it said the Painting Vermeer has been stolen.The kids got to University of Fargo Hall almost a century old because that is were the painting is were it is at mostly.The kids went in the basement and was trying to find cluse but no good there were no cluse.The kids finally found out who stole the painting when the kids were running home they saw a guy named Fred run into a tree house holding the painting Vermeer.

I think that the end of the book makes the book good when the kids saw fred holding the painting and going into the tree house. **Big Question #2: What would make this book better?** As a critic, it’s important to be honest. And honestly, some parts of some books are pretty bad. I think that if the book was more clear it would be better. What the problem is in the story and what is going on in the book.
 * The following questions were taken from :** http://www.ttms.org/say_about_a_book/say_about_a_book.htm 
 * Big Question #1: What makes this book good?  **
 * Big Question #3: What’s the one most important thing the author wants you to know?** This is the main idea. It’s almost as though you could squeeze a whole book down to a __single sentence__ and say that’s what it was all about.

**Big Question #4: Why did the writer write this?** Why did the author bother to tell this story? What is it about this particular story that the author thought was so important? Was it just for fun or to teach something? I think the writer wrote the story because they liked mysterys and the enjoy writing.

**Big Question #5: What does the audience need to know to understand and enjoy the book?** In other words, what background knowledge would be good to have prior to reading this book? The audience would need to know the main idea, the characters names and about the characters, and how they solved the problem.