Entries Categorized as 'Older Readers'
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Incredibook!, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Animals, Brian Jacques, Long Read, Mice, Rats, Redwall, Snakes
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When Cluny the Scourge lays siege to Redwall abbey, the home of peaceful mice, Matthias must find the lost sword of Martin the Warrior. The adventure that follows involves a quest to the abbey roof and an evil adder named Asmodeus.
Starting a series of great books, Redwall is worth reading again and again. This is one of my personal favorites. What happens to the shield of Martin in the later books? I wonder…
Posted by Ruth
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Incredibook!, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Animals, Brian Jacques, Hedgehogs, Long Read, Mice, Otters, Redwall, Squirrels
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The evil wildcat Queen Tsarmina is determined to take over Mossflower Woods, forcing the inhabitants to slavery. Being unused to the ways of war, the woodlanders are in a desperate situation when Martin the Warrior arrives. They decide to send Martin on a journey to find the Badger Lord, Boar the Fighter. But the woodlanders are running out of time. They can’t hold Tsarmina back much longer. Will Martin the Warrior return in time to save them from their impending fate?
Even though Redwall is the beginning of the series, I read Mossflower first, and I actually like it better for starting things off. It’s a whole lot of fun and one of my favorites. There’s a Mossflower Crossword Puzzle at the official Redwall site, too.
Posted by Ben
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Animals, Bears, Rudyard Kipling, Snakes, Wolves
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A tiger named Shere Khan was hunting in the jungle when he scared some people away from their campfire. When they ran they left a baby boy behind. The tiger tried to eat the boy, but the wolves protected the boy because the tiger was hunting in their part of the jungle. The mother wolf named the boy Mowgli and often told him how he would have to kill the tiger when he was older.
I like some books better than this one, and there aren’t many funny parts in it, but it’s still pretty good!
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Incredibook!, Non Fiction, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Award Winner, Genevieve Foster, History, Joanna Foster, Long Read
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This is a great book! It’s extremely hard to write a review for, so I’m just going to give you the highlights. It’s especially good for history. Listen to me on this, it makes reading about history fun! Yes, you heard that right! (Crowd gasps then applauds.) It doesn’t just follow George Washington; it follows famous people around the world at the same time. Including Catherine the Great of Russia, Voltaire, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin, to name just a few. Bet you didn’t know that Pompeii was discovered, Bach died, James Cook ran away to sea, the first air travel tests were being attempted, and Mozart was born during George Washington’s time! This is a really interesting book. I will give you a brief warning: Genevieve Foster treats all religions as equal and it shows up a little bit in her books. However, her books are really good. For you Charlotte Mason style home-schoolers out there, this is a very living book.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Howard Pyle
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This is the second book of Howard Pyle’s stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. This volume tells of Sir Launcelot of the Lake and his first meeting with King Arthur (where he is made a knight) and how he rode errant with Sir Lionel of Britian and Sir Ector, and the many adventures that befell them. Then Pyle tells the story of young Sir Tristram and how he suffered greatly from court plots. Finally, we meet Sir Percival, whose happy life is blighted by tragedy. Strewn with jousts, chivalry, fighting and adventure, this is a great book.
Trust me, my review doesn’t do the book justice. There is so much more to it! I really appreciate how Howard Pyle doesn’t even include the possibility of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere having a “Camelot” type relationship. (Those who have seen Camelot the movie will understand what I mean.) I really enjoyed these books, and it was from them that I first learned that one could be “greatly be-dizzied” from a buffet on the head. This book is a classic from beginning to end, and it even has great illustrations! (That’s hard to beat.) Please read these books. A wonderful experience lies right inside the cover. All you have to do is open it and begin!
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