Sort of silly sory of how your major body parts got together one day in order to get their eat on. ( )

This Liberian folktale tells the story of how our head, arms, body and legs all came together. This story highlights the use of teamwork as well and I think that this book would be perfect for a younger childs science class. The pictures in this book are also very African centered and awesome. I would recommend this book to any lower grade teachers. ( )

The first thing that stuck out to me about this book is the illustrations. I think they will really catch the children' eyes. This book would nice fun book to read. It could also be used to teach body parts, there's a lot of potential in a variety of questions to be asked. The language is simple and the story is short so this would be good for younger audiences. I think it is interesting that the author wrote the book with the characters being the body parts and saying "said head" instead of the head said. ( )

Head, Body, and Legs is a cute Liberian folktale about the human body and how it came to be. In this story the head starts off alone and rolling around eating grass and mushrooms, however he began to thinking about what it would be like to eat cherries from a tree. That is when Arms comes and attaches to the Head. They then acquire a body and legs. Originally all of the parts were out of place so they swapped around until they created the correct human form. ( )

I really did not like this book. First off, I found the illustrations to be really creepy. They just looked like strange shapes to me and I couldn't even tell where the story took place. The only drawings that I liked were the animal drawings. Secondly, I found the actual story very disturbing. The limbs of the body and how they came together was very strange to me. And the wording seemed wrong to me. The way the author phrased all of the sentences seemed grammatically wrong to me. This story was not one that I would ever bring into a classroom. A story where limbs were separated from the body is not a story I would want children to read. ( )