This book is about a young girl Jenny who loves to draw pictures all the time. Jenny also owns a pet guinea pig, which gets lost one day. Jenny is then assigned to write any story for homework but writing doesn't come easy to her. While Jenny is trying to find her guinea pig she draws pictures of the journey which then she ends up adding words to her pictures and it becomes her story she had to write for homework and patches gets found in the end.

Jenny draws, then writes, as sstory about losing and finding her pet guinea pig.

Summary: Jenny loved to draw pictures. One Monday, she got an assignment about write a story, but she has no idea to write this story. What's worst, she lost her guinea pig at that day. She was so upset, then her mom suggested to her make some posters in order to find her pig. She draw new pictures every day about her pig, finally, her neighbor found her pig and sent back to her. She was very happy but she still don't know what is she going to write her story about. Her mother suggest her write a story about how she found her pig, then Jenny found it was easy to add words now that she had done all the pictures. When she brought her story to class and read it out, she gained lots of compliments.
Genre: Contenporary realistic. Because write a story as an assignment would real happen in school.
Age app: Primary
Media: digital picture ( )

I love how this book teaches so many different lessons for both the student and the teacher. It talks about how one child overcame her struggle to write a story by using an event from her own life. For teachers, it shows that there are multiple ways of reaching the same result. (Realistic Fiction)

In my opinion, this is a great book. I was first drawn to this book because of the colors on the cover, and then when I opened up to skim the pages, the colors were just as vibrant, so I had to read it. I really liked how the author organized the story, and had one solution solve two problems. Jenny needed to write a story for class, but could not think of a story. She wanted to draw pictures but her teacher said, “Not unless it goes with the words. Words first!” This left her discouraged. Then, she lost her guinea pig, Patches, and decided to draw pictures of him to help find him. “I have an idea,” Mom said. “Why don’t you make some posters? We’ll put them up around the neighborhood.” She eventually found Patches because of her drawings, and she also was able to come up with a story based her drawings of lost Patches. The pictures are very descriptive and show a lot emotion. For example, “No,” said Jenny miserably. “I haven’t thought of anything.” Not only is Jenny’s facial expression miserable, but you can tell that the people she is talking to are very worried also. The central message of this book is that not everyone solves a problem the same way. When Jenny’s teacher tells her she needs to write the story before she draws the pictures, “her mind was like an empty sack.” Eventually Jenny is able to write her story based off of pictures she has drawn and proves to her teacher that every one is different. “Nice job,” said Mr. Griswold. “Words first, pictures second.” No,” said Jenny. “Pictures first, words second.” ( )