Storybook Favorites

Storybook Favorites

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Rate My Rishi

         I really loved the overall concept, using Rate My Professor as the format for their story.  It was unique and I haven’t seen any other storybooks using this same concept.  It was also a great format for introducing and telling the reader about the different spiritual leaders.  It was awesome and fun because it had multiple voices telling stories.  It wasn’t a singular narrator, making this storybook completely different from the others because it didn’t have the same vibe.  It felt and looked like a website for rating Rishi, but you learned the stories of the rishi through the comments and pages.

Tales of Ganesha

         This storybook had the basic format that I feel a lot of the storybooks had, but it had a really interesting narrative voice.  I loved how it involved a piece of Norman by using the Campus Corner because it felt more personal and relatable than trying to imagine someplace far off that I have never been to.  It was easy to read and I liked how the text and the pictures were centered together as opposed to the pictures separating the text.  I liked how the narrator kept the readers interesting, splashing in relatable details like the OU/Texas game to make the event connected in our minds.

Fairytale Case Files: India


         First off, I am a huge fan of fairy tales AND crime TV so this storybook won me over with the title.  I immediately got the mysterious vibe from the heading page, and I like how the storybook’s theme was visible and prompt, allowing me as a reader to orient myself to the mood.  It really pulls the reader in by starting with a mystery, allowing the reader to be curious and raising questions by leaving the introduction with a cliff-hanger that allows for the creation of the stories.  I really enjoyed that format: the use of the introduction as the origin to the storyteller and the stories being told.

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