Entries Categorized as 'Incredibook!'
Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Award Winner, Carol Kendall, Minnipins
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Years ago the hero Gammage had led the Minnipin people to safety in The-Land-Between-The-Mountains. Now the Minnipins have grown soft and won’t listen when five of the villagers tell of seeing campfires on the supposedly impassable mountains. One thing leads to another, and the five are finally outlawed from the village. It is up to Muggles, Mingy, Gummy, Curley Green, and Walter the Earl to save the very ones who have cast them out.
I very much enjoy this book. The characters are well-portrayed, and the story itself makes you pause and reflect. There is not much adventure until the end, but it doesn’t come across as slow. Overall it is an excellent read.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review
Tags:Animals, Don Freeman, Easy Read, Good Read Aloud, Mice, Quick Read
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Norman, an artistically-minded mouse, loves to show his friends all the treasures hidden in the basement of the Majestic Museum of Art. One day Norman decides to make a sculpture out of the mousetraps that the sharp-eyed guard leaves. He enters the “mouse on the flying trapezee” into a sculpture contest the museum is having, and much to his surprise, wins first place!
I love this book. It ends so well, and Norman is such a decent little mouse—and his wire sculpture is really fun.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Easy Read, Emmy Payne, Good Read Aloud, kangaroos, Quick Read
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Katy the Kangaroo has a problem. She has no pocket in which to carry little Freddie, her son. All the other animals have ways to carry their babies, but Katy just can’t find a good way to carry Freddie. In desperation, she goes to the city to try to find a pocket.
This is such a sweet little book, and the pictures (drawn by H. A. Ray, co-author of Curious George) are so cute. I’ve read this one to many of my little friends, and it has yet to grow old.
Posted by Ruth
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review
Tags:Animals, Easy Read, Good Read Aloud, Graeme Base, Quick Read
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A tale of greed and high adventure in two acts. In which our heroine Pearl Trout, along with her brother and the brave Corporal Bert, must thwart the villainous Gropmund Grouper and his devious scheme to not only cheat the inhabitants of Reeftown out of their money, but to destroy the very town itself!
Graeme Base’s combination of beautifully-done, full-color pages of illustrations with perfectly (and often comical) rhyming prose makes for such an enjoyable experience. It’s a terrific read-aloud, but everyone will surely want to go through and study each picture by their self, too. As with most of Base’s books, there are hidden things to be found—in this case, the sign of the seahorse is tucked somewhere on every page, and close examination will also reveal the continual appearance of “two largely unnoticed shrimps,” to quote the list of the Cast. All in all, great fun for any age.
Posted by Kyle
Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Easy Read, Good Read Aloud, Quick Read, Virginia Lee Burton
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Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, do various digging jobs. The more people watching them, the faster and better they work. Then newer shovels that are not steam powered are invented and no one wants to hire steam shovels anymore. One day, Mike Mulligan sees in the newspaper that the town of Popperville is building a new town hall and Mike Mulligan decides that he will dig the cellar for the new town hall.
This is a great book for young children who like machines and it also tells a very good story.
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