Daywalt, Drew.
THE LEGEND OF ROCK PAPER SCISSORS
New York : Balzer + Bray, 2017
IL K-3, RL 4.4
ISBN 0062438891

(2 booktalks)

Booktalk #1

Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.  How did this game ever get started? Long ago, in an ancient and distant realm called the Kingdom of Backyard, there lived a warrior named Rock. Rock was the strongest in all the land, but he was sad because no one could give him a worthy challenge. So off he went in search of a worthy opponent. And the rest is history.

Booktalk #2

“Rock, paper, scissors. Rock, paper, scissors. Rock, paper, scissors.” [To be chanted while playing the game -- within seconds the kids will be playing with you.] Do you like to play this game? Do you ever wonder how games like this get started, or invented? Well, Drew Daywalt and Adam Rex did, and they set out to write and illustrate a legend about it. In this story, Rock, Paper, and Scissors are trying to find worthy opponents to compete against, and end up finding best friends in each other. If you want to know two people’s versions of how and why this game got started, read The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors by Drew Daywalt! ( Prepared by: Susannah Hogan, Wellford Elementary School, susannah.hogan@spart5.net for South Carolina Book Award)