Imogene's Antlers

Title: Imogene's Antlers
Author: David Small
Genre: Fantasy

This is a fantasy book that is about a girl that wakes up one morning with antlers! Her mom cannot believe it, she keeps fainting at the sight of the antlers on Imogene's head. The rest of the family sort of embraces her overnight-grown antlers and begins to use them for things such as drying clothes, or putting food on the points to walk to another room to provide for others. The next morning she wakes up with no more antlers, but little to the families surprise, she has grown the feathers of a peacock!

This is a story I could do a read aloud in class and show students that it is okay to be, or look differently. Imogene wakes up one random morning with antlers and she does not seem too upset about it, in fact she accepts it. Students need to be more accepting got their looks and less self cautious of their appearance just because of people who might judge them and disagree their looks. I think this could be a great lesson to students.