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Gone is gone, or, the story of the man who wanted to do housework by Wanda Ga'g. Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 

ISBN-10:  0816642435

Illustrator: Wanda Ga'g

Media:  Pen and Ink

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Gone is gone, or, the story of the man who wanted to do housework by Wanda Ga'g. Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2003.  

ISBN-10:  0816642435

Illustrator: Wanda Ga'g

Media:  Pen and Ink

5Q/5P

Curricular connection:  Women’s studies. Similar curricular relationships can be found in social history, politics, feminism, and traditional gender roles in the academic field of Women’s Studies and Fine Art.  A comparable connection can be found in the books Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House, Dorothea Lange (Portraits of Women Artists for Children), Gone is Gone, or, the Story of the Man Who Wanted to Do Housework and Amelia to Zora:  Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World.

Reading level: 5^th grade

Onomatopoeia defined by Oxford English Dictionary, is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle).   Here is an example of onomatopoeia being used in Gone is Gone.  “What was that noise up in the kitchen-such a scuffle and clatter!”  The use of words such as, scuffle and clatter for rhetorical effect emphasize the noise heard by Fritzl.

Annotation: Children’s writer and artist Wanda Ga’g retells the fable her Grandmother told her as a child.  The story is about a man who always thought he worked harder than his wife, until the day he traded responsibilities with her.

KRF 6/14/09