Magnolia the Bunny explores the grove she lives in and has created a map of all the wonderful places she and her friends are able to see there. However, she has one spot she has not completed on the map. Can she finish it in time for the big revel at the Walnut Animal Society Soiree? To try and finish her map, Magnolia and a couple of her friends (who are curious like their manifesto tells them to be) go off to explore that last […]
Because I had teachers and confidence
When I give a graduation gift, I tend to not give books. However, this graduation season I have found three that I really like. Jason Reynolds’ For Every One for the teen to adult and for the younger children You Can!: Words of Wisdom from the Little Engine That Could based on Watty Piper’s Little Engine and for teachers Because I Had a Teacher by Yamada Kobi. It is these last two I will focus on as I’ve already reviewed For Every One. You Can […]
Misunderstood Shark…. Or is he??
Amy Dyckman is at it again. She just cannot help herself! Her books are as fun and quirky as her green hair. (And as I might have mentioned in my review of Read the Book, Lemmings she is a very nice person, too). The story of Misunderstood Shark is a shark just wants to show “the people out there” what kind of shark he really is. After all, everyone always seems to misunderstand him. He does not want to eat the fish, but to show […]
The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael Lopez combine their talents in The Day You Begin. The story is how a classroom of children feel like outsiders in their classroom. Told through poetic text, Woodson shows how these two children learn they are not alone. We have all probably felt like Rigoberto and Angelina at least once in our lives. Due to our names, accent, being the new kid at school, at church or another event. Perhaps we are not good at a particular sport or subject or […]
A Storytelling of Ravens
A Storytelling of Ravens seems like one thing by the cover, but here the old saying is true, “Do not judge a book by the cover.” The inside poem (for a lack of a better term) has a line about each animal and what their “group” is called in a clever sentence. There is a sloth of bears, a smack of jellyfish and (a term a dog lover perhaps would take glee in) a nuisance of cats. And for me, of course, a storytelling of […]
A Narwhal and Jelly Book
The Narwhal and Jelly graphic novel series is a “My first graphic novel” read. There is very basic text, almost repetitive and with a rhythm that beginning readers tend to have. Aimed at the first to second grader (ages 6 to 8) you can read them out loud as well. The very basic illustrations do not add a lot of details, but the right amount to not overpower the text, but to compliment it. Narwhal is a bit on the “not the brightest fish in […]
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