Lois Podoshen

Paco and his grandmother plant a small salad garden.

A boy and his grandmother look forward to eating food from
their garden, but a woodchuck gets there first.
■ Realistic fiction
■ Third person
■ Past tense
■ Cover illustration portrays hope rather than reality
■ Possessive apostrophe in title
■ Pictorial map of garden
■ Some repeated two-sentence pattern, but remainder has varied
structures
■ Ellipsis near sentence beginning and not at page turn
■ No text on final page, open-ended
■ Two adjectives for objects
■ Text ranges from one to four lines
■ Only one character speaks
■ Pronunciation guide on inside front cover
■ Explanatory note on inside back cover
■ Repetition of word for emphasis… (lisätietoja)