RJ #22

Dear Mrs Zrhien,

I currently finished: BILL Pete: An autobiography By: Bill Pete. Bill Pete is a well-known children's book author that was good friends with Walt Disney. He actually worked for Walt for 27 years. His life-span was from January 29, 1915- May 11, 2002. For Disney he worked on

14 movies, including Alice in wonderland & Cinderella. He is an amazing illustrator his pictures where fantastic! And I thought it was cool that every page had drawing and there were no “chapters” in the book.

Two before:

1. I read about him online
2. I went on a website about the book to see what other people thought about it.

Two during:

1. I studied the illustrations.

1. if I did not understand something I would re-read it

Two after:

1. I summarized the book in my head
2. I discussed it with my mom

The P.O.O. Is chronological order because it was going by time. The sub- P.O.O. Is time sequence. The genre of this book is Non-Fiction. The sub-genre of this book is autobiography. The P.O.V. Is 1^st person because the main character was speaking. The authors purpose was to entertain reader's with his story.

This book was very specific about his life, but in a good way I now realize. I thought it was so cool that he worked with Walt Disney, and that back-in-the twenties it cost five cents for a box of Cracker Jack and other things that would cost $1-$5 today & that he is such a good illustrator! I liked the drawings of famous Disney Cartoons, & the fact that they looked exactly as put in the movie (because he he helped make the story board!). His father was mean and money hungry, he and his brother's got along well, he was never good in school, he even failed completely (except P.E.) with straight Fs. He went to art but had to leave because he could not afford it, then he started working for Disney as a in-betweener just drawing Donald Duck al day, then got moved to story board, and it started from there.

He used “fancy” words that, at first to me, did not make any sense in-which they were placed until I re-read them. The figurative language are: Similes & Metaphors.

I would rate this book 8/10. It was great and so were the drawings but sometimes he got a little too detailed and I would lose interest once & a while. I would recommend this to kids ages 8-15 who like to read about authors/ autobiographies.