Picture Walk:

• Treat students to a picture walk through the book. Ask them to look for details in the illustrations that would provide clues to the period setting of the book. Have students make their guesses about the period setting and support their opinions with evidence from the illustrations. For example, students may notice that horse-dependent forms of transportation are in use and there are few automobiles pictured. They may infer that the story is set in the time period when cars were just starting to be used by people in America. Students may do research to find out when automobiles were first available to be purchased.