Robert the
Rose Horse by Joan
Heilbroner is a children’s fiction picture book about Robert the Horse.
Robert lives on a farm and is readily exposed to roses. Roses make Robert
sneeze, not any old sneeze but a huge KERCHOO. Robert thinks his only option is
to move to the city to get away from roses. Once moving to the city Robert gets
a job as a working for a milk man, taking the milkman and his wagon around the
city. On his trip around the city one day, Robert came across a man with a rose
in his jacket. Robert sneezed and the wagon and milk went everywhere. Robert
was fired from his job. He then began to look for a job again. After many days Robert
found a poster advertising for police horses. Robert rushed in and got the job.
He was very proud of his job. One day he sees a bank robbery, managing to find
a rose and stop the robbers with his sneeze. Robert was a hero and given some
roses to say thank you, but he didn’t sneeze. Robert managed to sneeze away his
allergy to roses.
I think this book would be a very good teacher
resource in a primary classroom as it is very funny and will keep students
engaged whilst teaching them morals and underlying messages. This book conveys
morals to the reader such as having allergies doesn’t have to hold you back
from your achievements, use it to your advantage. Alliteration is used
throughout the text with the repetition of a letter in a sentence such as ‘The robbers ran
right at Robert’. Assonance is also used throughout the text to
demonstrate same vowel sounds that are repeated closely together ‘He took the
milk man and his wagon all around the city’. The author also uses onomatopoeia with
words such as KERCHOO and SPLASH to make the reading of this text more
interesting.
Catherine
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