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William Steig Doctor De Soto
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William Steig — King of Cartoons Illustrator of the New Yorker Illustrator of the New Yorker Author of children ’ s books Author of children ’ s books Cartoonist http://www.williamsteig.com
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Cover of the New Yorker
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Children ’ s Books
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Cartoons
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Progressive Plot (I) Exposition Narrator introduces Doctor De Soto and the whole setting. Conflict Doctor De Soto risks to let dangerous fox in. Rising action The dental procedure
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Progressive Plot (II) Climax The fox ’ s teeth were stuck with glue. Denouement The fox was stunned and left in a daze. End Doctor De Soto outfoxed the fox.
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Characters — Round Doctor De Soto The fox
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Setting and Theme Setting The special dental hospital Theme Obvious comparison between the fox and the mice Campaign between two intelligent mice and a cunning fox
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Style 3 rd person of view Short sentence Simple syntactic structure
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Illustrations Artistic style Cartoon style Color Many different colors Bright color Composition Within a square With little background Focus on characters http://www.ybook.co.il/books/F3621270/page1.asp
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Recommendable Website A website that contains many cartoons adapted from storybooks http://www.prairiepublic.org/education/pstv/gui de/scholasticdv.htm http://www.prairiepublic.org/education/pstv/gui de/scholasticdv.htm
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