Publication Date: 2014
Type of Book: Realistic Fiction Picture Book
This picture book tells the story of a family that is moving from one place to another. They have two children, a boy and a girl. The children are sad and don't want to move. They had to say goodbye to their house and their neighbors. You see their journey to their new home and what they see along the way. When they get to their new home you see everything that is now new to the the family. In the end you see that the little boy made friends with the neighbor next door and he realizes that moving maybe wasn't so bad after all.
I personally was not a fan of this story. I didn't like how it was written using incomplete sentences that contained two or three words. These words were all very easy and must be geared towards beginning readers. I have always been told that the best way to teach students to read is in context. This book to me doesn't use the text to create a story. Instead the text provides fragments of information that the reader has to piece together to create the story. I would have liked it better if the text was an actual story instead of just words describing what is on each page.
I would recommend this story to children who are in kindergarten or first grade and just learning how to read. This story uses very basic and simple words that describe the illustrations. This book would be too simple for students any older than first grade. The author also doesn't include proper punctuation such as periods, so students shouldn't use this text to help them learn about proper sentence structure.
Image References:
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Bye-Good-Deborah-Underwood/dp/0547928521/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443583823&sr=1-1&keywords=bad+bye%2C+good+bye
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