The Little Scarecrow Boy illustrated by David Diaz

The Little Scarecrow Boy is written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by David Diaz. This sweet children's book is about a little scarecrow boy that wants to be fierce just like his father. His father is training him to be just like him and scare away all the crows from the field; however, he will not let him go out to the fields until he grows older. Little scarecrow boy becomes impatient and heads to the field without this parent's permission. He tries five times with five different scarecrow faces to scare away a mean crow and finally after the sixth time he succeeds and the crow flies away in fear. Just then daddy scarecrow finds his little boy and

beams because he is so proud of this little boy. From then on, the little boy grew up to become the fiercest scarecrow in all the fields.

This is a short and sweet story about parents raising and training their son to be the best little scarecrow boy he can be. The little scarecrow boy learns to scare the crowns away because he has listened and learned from this father. The illustrations by Diaz are vibrant and bright using many warm Autumn colors. The pages are portioned well with the use of color and font and he uses a nice clean white border around all the pages which continues throughout the entire book. The illustrator also illustrates on the front papers and end papers of the book. It begins with a warm sunny sky and the theme is carried out and then ends with the same warm sunny sky.