Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie is a verse novel by Julie Sternberg published in 2011.  Having never read a verse novel before, this novel was interesting to read as it took a few chapters for me to truly get into the swing of how to read a verse novel.  Once I got through the first few chapters, I was able to read the story extremely quick as it is a quick read for students about an engaging topic.  The story centers around Eleanor, a little girl who has a new babysitter that she does not love as much as her past babysitter. For this reason, this story would most appeal to girls and when using this book in my classroom I think it would be a great choice to give students to complete a book study about verse novels in order to allow students to have the availability to read a new kind of text centered around a topic that is easy for them to understand.  An interesting characteristic about this novel is that it contains illustrations in every chapter that aids readers in comprehension.  Many of the pictures are simply cartoons that touch on an aspect of the chapter. For example, one chapter is a letter from Mr. Campanelli, Eleanor's teacher, and the image associated with the chapter is a sketch of a postcard.  This story is one that engages readers from the start while offering them a new take on a novel through being written in a verse format
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