William Steig Doctor De Soto William Steig King

William Steig Doctor De Soto

William Steig— King of Cartoons n Illustrator of the New Yorker n Author of children’s books n Cartoonist http: //www. williamsteig. com

Cover of the New Yorker

Children’s Books

Cartoons

Progressive Plot (I) n Exposition n n Conflict n n Narrator introduces Doctor De Soto and the whole setting. Doctor De Soto risks to let dangerous fox in. Rising action n The dental procedure

Progressive Plot (II) n Climax n n Denouement n n The fox’s teeth were stuck with glue. The fox was stunned and left in a daze. End n Doctor De Soto outfoxed the fox.

Characters — Round n Doctor De Soto n The fox

Setting and Theme n Setting n n The special dental hospital Theme n n Obvious comparison between the fox and the mice Campaign between two intelligent mice and a cunning fox

Style n n n 3 rd person of view Short sentence Simple syntactic structure

Illustrations n Artistic style n n Color n n n Cartoon style Many different colors Bright color Composition n Within a square With little background Focus on characters http: //www. ybook. co. il/books/F 3621270/page 1. asp

Recommendable Website n A website that contains many cartoons adapted from storybooks n http: //www. prairiepublic. org/education/pstv/gui de/scholasticdv. htm