There’s nothing wrong with seeing the world differently.Īll of these are lessons you can learn from events that occur in this story.Afraid of the teacher and unable make any friends, Chibi passes his free time alongalone at study time, alone at playtime, always a forlorn little tag-along.

Don’t judge people because they don’t look or act like you. Crow Boy Taro Yashima Viking, 1955, 1983 From the dust jacket, Chibi has been an outcast since that frightening first day of school when he hid under the schoolhouse.You shouldn’t make fun of people because you don’t know what their real life is like. Taro Yashima is the author of Crow Boy (3.94 avg rating, 1668 ratings, 243 reviews, published 1955), Umbrella (3.77 avg rating, 836 ratings, 112 reviews.So possible themes for Crow Boy might be: Chibi is a young boy who is excluded on the playground because he is different he has autism. However, in the end they learn that he has a lonely, hard life, and he actually has quite a bit of useful knowledge. People think he’s dumb because he doesn’t talk much. Now, it’s important to keep in mind that the theme is not typically something that the author just comes out and says.įor example, in Crow Boy, a shy student is made fun of in school. It’s often something the reader infers from events that happen–a sort of lesson or idea that they can apply to real life. The theme of a text is a message that the author might be trying to send the reader through the story. You can hear/watch the story being read aloud by clicking the picture of the book below. Today we revisited a read aloud we did last year, Crow Boy by Taro Yashima.