Posted by Sarah
Categories: Animals, Award Winner, Fiction, Good Read Aloud, Review, Sad, Younger Readers
Tags:E. B. White, Insects, Pigs, Rats
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One morning Fern Arable, an eight year-old girl, learned her father was about to kill the runt of the new pig litter. She rushed to stop him and finally Mr. Arable agreed not to harm the pig. Mr. Arable gave the pig to Fern, and she eventually named him Wilbur. However, after a few weeks of happiness together, Mr. Arable told Fern that the pig would have to be sold. Wilbur was getting bigger, along with his appetite, and Mr. Arable wasn’t willing to feed the pig any longer. So Fern sorrowfully sold Wilbur to her Uncle Zuckerman’s farm nearby, where she could go and visit him. However, even with all Fern’s visits, Wilbur became lonely. But a spider named Charlotte was ready to be his friend and would also try to save him from being killed and made into bacon and ham.
A great book. For those who don’t like spiders, this book might help them feel a little more affectionate to the eight-legged insects. Maybe. No guarantees. And all readers should be prepared for a sad and perhaps unexpected part at the end. However, Templeton the rat is rather funny sometimes, and I really like the ending of this book.
(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
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Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Animals, Fantasy, Fiction, Funny, Incredibook!, Long Read, Review
Tags:Bill Myers, Insects
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In the first of four books in one, called The Bloodstone, Denise Wolff finds a rock in her uncle’s attic and gives it as a birthday present to her friend Josh’s spoiled brother Nathan, not knowing that placing the rock in moonlight sends a signal to a different dimension called Fayrah. Listro Q, a purple creature with mixed up talking; Aristophenix, a poet; and Samson the bug arrive from Fayrah and cross-dimensionalize Denise and Nathan to Fayrah for a visit, though it turns out to be more than just a friendly call.
The second book is called The Experiment, in which Denise and Josh cross-dimensionalize with the three creatures from Fayrah and eventually get to Biiq, the mathematical land, where Olga the computer awaits for Josh and the Machine for Denise. The Machine helps Denise understand how Imager could love the “Upside-Downers,” the people on earth, and Olga to prove the presence of Imager.
The Whirlwind, the third book, is about how Josh is tricked by the Illusionist and Bobok, the villains who one or both appear in the first and second books, into going to the three levels of perfection. The third being the Sea of Justice, where, even after completing the first two levels, Josh would be destroyed.
And now for the final and fourth book, The Tablet. Disaster strikes when Denise finds the tablet after a dream sent by the Merchant of Emotions. The tablet will do anything you write on it. Nathan and Josh must stop the Merchant of Emotions before he can reach earth and show Denise that she is wrong before, with the intention of making it a better place, she makes the world into a nightmare.
I really like this book. It’s certainly not perfect, though. There are some things mentioned that I think should have been left out. In The Tablet, the Merchant of Emotions has a pet named TeeBolt who is usually running away and they make a comical team together. The Bloodstone Chronicles is an allegory of a growing Christian’s life. I like the style of writing Bill Myers uses in this book.
(9 votes, average: 3.22 out of 5)
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Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Animals, Cats, Dogs, Fiction, Review
Tags:Crickets, Eleanor Estes, Insects
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Pinky Pye (Paperback)
by Eleanor Estes
ISBN: 0152025650
Price: USD 6.99
155 used & new available from USD 0.10
The Pye family, complete with Ginger and Gracie, were going to spend the summer on Fire Island! Once there, they find an “abandid” kitten named Pinky. The Pyes decide to keep her. They find out she has unusual talents, such as boxing with Ginger and even typing on their typewriter! Uncle Bennie came to Fire Island with them and develops an interest in crickets and grasshoppers. He starts keeping them as pets and Rachel will put them, inside their cricket and or grasshopper box, up in the eaves. But when they start disappearing… what’s up?
This is a great book. You can probably guess what’s up, so I didn’t categorize it as a mystery. Still, Pinky’s cute and I like the epilogue.
(11 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
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Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Animals, Dogs, Easy Read, Fiction, Out of Print, Review
Tags:Insects, Jim Kjelgaard, Lizards
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Balulu is an Australian aborigine hunter. His tribe is suffering from a drought, and is slowly starving. Setting out with his dingo named Warrigal, Balulu searches for a better place for his tribe to live and hunt in. But, when he finally finds the perfect place, it proves to already be inhabited by another tribe, which might have hostile intentions.
There’s a lot of neat stuff in here, although, quite honestly, Balulu’s diet is rather, shall we say, different. Anyway, it’s interesting to read about how the aborigines lived and what they did. It also makes you appreciate even something like brussel sprouts! At least they aren’t sun-dried frog skins! (Although. . . I guess that point is debatable.)
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Posted by Jordan
Categories: All Ages, Animals, Award Winner, Cats, Dogs, Fiction, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Review
Tags:Birds, Crickets, Garth Williams, George Selden, Insects, Mice
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Tucker’s Countryside (Paperback)
by George Selden, Garth Williams
ISBN: 0440402484
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The Old Meadow is scheduled to be destroyed, and Chester Cricket has sent word to Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat in New York City. Tucker and Harry rush to Hedley, Connecticut. Chester wants Tucker to think of a plan to save the meadow, but what with Harry being adopted by a girl named Ellen, Tucker’s got his hands full.
I enjoyed Tucker’s Countryside a bit less than some of the others in this series, but it’s still very enjoyable and very fun.
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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