Study the sample illustration from What a Truly Cool World by Julius Lester, illustrated by Joe Cepeda. (New York, Scholastic, 1999.) It is best to examine the entire book to see the interrelationships established among the illustrations and text.
It is important to read the accompanying text to this illustration.
Choose
the answer that reflects your interpretation of the illustration:
Perhaps
for this book, a little background is needed to help in your interpretation:
"When
God finished making the world he felt as bright and sunny as love.
He had never made a world before and, if he said so himself (and
he did), he thought he had done a very good job." Then,
Shaniqua, the angel in charge of everybody's business, comes
bursting into the room and tells god that what he has made is
kind of boring. God decides he needs to do some more creating
to make the world more beautiful. The above illustration
occurs after god has created flowers.
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the answer that reflects your interpretation of the illustration:
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