Entries Categorized as 'Picture Books'
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Chickens, Cows, David Macaulay, Funny, Good Read Aloud
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A chicken crosses the road, beginning a hilarious chain reaction involving a burglar, an explosion, and stampeding cows.
Macaulay’s genius shines through brilliantly. The adults reading this book will enjoy it more than the children they are reading to. Make sure you look closely at the pictures for speech bubbles, goofy happenings, and the burglar hiding on most pages.
Posted by Becca
Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Clyde Robert Bulla, Easy Read, Good Read Aloud, Out of Print, Quick Read
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Torr, a young boy, has been abandoned at a miller’s house because his mother can no longer care for him. The miller and his wife adopt the him readily, thinking that Torr will be useful around the mill later in his life. One night, however, the miller and his wife wake up to the sound of Torr singing outside. After being reprimanded for singing in the middle of the night, and maybe waking up the entire village, Torr goes out into the woods to sing. His fame as a singer spreads and he ends up at the queen’s palace. But he cannot sing in her presence, so he is sent back to the village. Torr is driven out of the village, too, and forced to wander.
This is a rather nice story, as Clyde Robert Bulla’s usually are. It’s a little longer than some picture books, but it’s still short. I enjoyed this story very much.
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Birds, Dr. Seuss, Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud
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Four silly stories by Dr. Seuss about some rather interesting subjects.
The Sneetches, the title story, is about birds. Half have stars on their bellies, the other half don’t. The ones with the stars lord it over the ones without. One day, a man offers to add stars to those with none.
The Zax is a tale of two creatures who won’t budge from their tracks to let the other through.
Too Many Daves is a crazy poem about a woman who named all of her sons Dave.
Finally, What was I Scared of? tells the story of “a pair of walking green pants with nobody inside them.”
This is probably my favorite Seuss book. I’ve always loved The Sneetches, and Too Many Daves is a poem that I can partially recite. Anyway, some great stories.
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Monsters, Poetry, Quick Read, Rhyme, Susan Heyboer O’Keefe
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An increasing number of hungry monsters create general chaos at a boy’s house as they look for something to eat.
Everything here is in rhyme. For the first ten pages or so, the monsters ask to be fed. For the next ten, the boy brings out food. To finish the book, the monsters play with their food until the boy gets fed up with them (no pun intended).
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