The things that I love about trees include such things as they give you shade; they can give you fruit like apples and oranges and peaches. They give you the sap that makes real maple syrup! They can be a great place to put a swing. They are homes to critters, birds and insects. They are a very unique kind of plant. And in The Things That I Love about Trees by Chris Butterworth (illustrated by Charlotte Voake) shows you these things and more. It […]
Up in the Leaves
Bob lives in the big city but he was not happy. It is too crowed. It is too loud. There are not a lot of trees. However, Bob finds a refuge from New York City in Central Park. Where there are actual trees he can climb and hide in. It is here he builds a series of treehouses that vary in ability as he grows from a child to about twenty-one years old. However, each one of the houses is found and removed. Until the […]
They Say Blue
They Say Blue is a poetic story about color but not in the usual way one thinks of a poem or thinks of color. Blue is for sky. Sometimes. But it is also for the ocean. Sometimes. After all, as the little girl tells us when she holds it in her hands, it is clear and she call throw it up to make diamonds. Also, the little girl wonders about things. Such as, is a blue whale actually blue? After all, she has never seen […]
Black Girl Magic: A Poem
Black Girl Magic: A Poem is Browne’s way of responding to the way black girls “should” look and act. Change this to: white girls, fat girls, skinny girls…. any female. The theme is not exclusive to the population Browne speaks of. We “should” act a certain way or else society shames you: “Be Different as long as it’s Different like Me” screamed off the page for me. “Society: Be Yourself. NO, not that way…” also is loud and clear. Browne challenges this “should” mentality. […]
Rainbow Magic
Best friends Rachel and Kirsty love fall. They want to go apple picking and carve pumpkins and have a hayride. However, this year something is very wrong! It is hotter than summer and nothing is happening as it should! Plants are rotting or not growing at all. The trees are not losing their leaves, making it so there is nothing to rake up and the girls can jump in. When the girls meet Autumn, The Falling Leaves Fairy, they learn why. Jack Frost and the […]
Earth Day and Beyond
With Earth Day, Green Up Day and Spring around the corner (though I am not as sure about Spring due to the current weather conditions) the young readers fancy turns towards books about the earth. And both titles, Water’s Children: Celebrating the Resource That Unites Us All by Angele Delaunois and When Planet Earth Was New by James Gladstone, give a story and facts about the past and present earth, the people there, water as well as many other details. Water’s Children shows us how […]
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