Entries Categorized as 'Review'
Posted by Sarah
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Birds, Dr. Seuss, Easy Read, Elephants, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Quick Read
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A lazy bird named Mazy is tired of sitting on her nest and trying to keep her egg warm, so when Horton the elephant comes along, she begs him to take care of her nest and egg. Horton finally agrees and Mazy flies off for a vacation at the beach. But Horton’s friends laugh at him, and hunters come and capture him and the tree with the nest with the egg. (And the green grass grows all around, all around, the green grass grows all around…) But Horton stays faithful, one hundred percent.
This is a great book. It’s humorous and rhyming. Please read this book!
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Adventure, Fiction, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Animals, Dogs, Good Read Aloud, Jim Kjelgaard, Scary
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Nobody has ever gone into the Caribou mountains and lived to tell the tale. Recently, Trigg Antray, a naturalist looking for albino moose, and his pilot crashed and radioed for help. Constable John Murdock has a broken arm and can’t go after them. And so Link Stevens and his dog Chiri are on the job. He finds the two lost men without much trouble, but Antray is injured, and when they try rafting back to civilization, the pilot takes all their gear and leaves them behind. With only some fishing line and a jackknife, Link and Trigg must survive where no man has succeeded.
This is the sequel to Snow Dog, although it could stand on its own. Wild Trek is somewhat better than its predecessor. There are a number of exciting points, and it’s amazing what Link and Trigg do to survive.
Posted by Ruth
Categories: Fiction, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Funny, Long Read, Louisa May Alcott
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When Polly Milton comes to stay with her cousin, Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city, they find her old-fashioned ways to be unusual and strange. Polly wonders if she’ll ever be able to fit it, but then wonders which is better. Soon, the Shaws to realize that, even though Polly isn’t up to date on the social aspect of things, her genuine happiness and concern for others set her apart in a special way.
Another good Louisa May Alcott. Oh, and even though I categorized it as a long read, it isn’t a very long read. And it’s almost as if you could separate the book into two, because about halfway through, it skips ahead to six years later. This is definitely a book worth reading.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, George Macdonald, Horses, Poetry
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When Diamond, a little boy, meets the North Wind, he goes on several adventures with her, riding safely in her arms or her hair. (Yes, you read that right, in her hair. She has lots of it.) At one point, Diamond even gets into the place at the back of the North Wind, where everything is wonderful. In his everyday life, Diamond soon becomes friends with a little orphan girl and does what he can to help her. He and his family go through several ups and downs and, unfortunately, the book ends sadly.
Well, actually, it wasn’t too sad when I re-read it for this review. I will warn you, though, that this is not the kind of book you can skim through! Unless, of course, you’ve read it half-a-dozen times and almost know it by heart. (Which I haven’t.) If you skip around in this book, you will most likely end up either Clueless and Baffled, or Mixed-up and Puzzled. Take your pick. Anyway, this is another almost nonsense book, a lot like The Garden Behind the Moon, (Do I sense a title theme here?) and it is very fun to read. Oh, and there’s also some poetry in it, too.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Historical Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Horses, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House
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This book, the third in the Laura Ingalls Wilder series, tells about Almanzo Wilder’s life while growing up on a farm. Almanzo lives with his father and mother, his brother, Royal, and his two sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice, and between them they have a wonderful time. Including Almanzo’s pig, Lucy, who gets her mouth stuck shut with candy, and Almanzo’s breaking in two calves, Star and Bright. Through all their adventures Almanzo is very taken with one of his father’s horses, a young colt which Almanzo calls Starlight, but his father doesn’t allow him to try to break in Starlight because Almanzo is too young, but Almanzo is determined to grow up enough to have a colt of his very own.
There’s so much fun stuff in this book. It amazes me how many things they had to do in one day! There’s humor galore in this book, one of my favorites being during sheep-shearing time. Please read this book. You don’t want to miss it!
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