Journey vs Creepy Carrots

Mini Mighty Smackdown Mme Smith's Class

Journey  vs Creepy Carrots

Summary -Journey by Aaron Becker

Journey is the story about a girl living in the city who is bored and lonely.  She discovers a red crayon, which magically allows her to draw the creations she imagines.  The girl draws a door on her wall that leads her to a magical forest.  The girl finds a castle and while exploring she, discovers a purple phoenix type bird being captured by guards.  She does everything she can to rescue the bird but while she is saving it, she gets captured herself and drops the magical crayon.  This mystical bird returns the favour and frees the girl from a cage.  The bird leads her to a mysterious purple door and she follows him through.  The girl ends up coming out of a mailbox right on her own street.  She notices the bird fly directly to a boy holding a magical purple crayon.  They become friends and who knows what adventures await them.

Summary- Creepy Carrots by Aarron Reynolds

The story of Creepy Carrots takes place in Crackenhopper Field, which is a rural farm area.

Jasper the rabbit loves to eat carrots especially wild ones from Crackenhopper field. He is eating them all day and eating lots of carrots.  The next day he starts to feeling like he is being stalked by creepy carrots.  Jasper begins to see shadows and creepy carrots everywhere. He is terrified.  The young rabbit tells his mom about his fears and she doesn’t believe him. Jasper  tells his dad but he doesn’t believe him either.  They think it’s his imagination getting out of control.  Jasper gets an idea. He builds a fence and a moat around the field to keep the carrots inside.   It works perfectly. The carrots cheer and say that their plan to get rid of the rabbit worked!

Smackdown

Opinion

Journey won the Smackdown with a vote of 14/27.

We chose Journey because we loved the adventure part of the story. The illustrations allowed us to really use our imagination. Aaron Becker, drew his pictures showing character movement and his illustrations are very purposeful. Because Journey is a wordless picture book, people can really see the story in different ways. This is a book that demands the reader really pay attention to every detail on the page. If you like a book with suspense and that leaves you wondering, Journey is the book for you!