Entries Categorized as 'Review'
Posted by Becca
Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Arnold Lobel, Award Winner, Easy Read, Frog and Toad, Frogs, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Quick Read, Toads
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Five stories about Frog and Toad, in which Toad makes a list of things to do and can’t do anything that is not on his list, Frog has a garden and Toad wants one also, Toad makes cookies and he and Frog must stop eating them using will power, Frog and Toad decide to see how brave they are and Toad has a very disturbing dream.
These stories are absolutely hilarious! Toad is the sort who likes everything to go just the right way and doesn’t like to wait either. Frog is quiet and willing to try things again. I think my favorite story in this book is the one about the cookies. And of course there’s Toad’s ever-present phrase: “Blah.” I highly recommend this book for younger readers.
Posted by Ruth
Categories: Fiction, Incredibook!, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Award Winner, Easy Read, Florence Atwater, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Penguins, Richard Atwater
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Although Mr. Popper paints houses, he can’t help but wish he had done some exploring before he married Mrs. Popper. He spends all his spare time reading about famous explorations, and especially about the Poles. One day, in response to a fan letter, Admiral Drake sends Mr. Popper a present: a penguin whom they name Captain Cook. Soon, though, Captain Cook seems lonely, so another penguin arrives: Greta. Soon they have a total of twelve penguins to look after, and Mr. Popper doesn’t have enough money to support them all. The solution to this problem? Popper’s Performing Penguins!
This is a very fun book. Learning how to accommodate twelve penguins in an ordinary household is very hilarious, and I can’t help but chuckle whenever I read about the penguins’ escapades in the theaters.
Posted by Jordan
Categories: Fantasy, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Funny, George Macdonald
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The king and queen have no children, and this makes the king angry. Then the queen has a lovely daughter, but at the christening, an evil witch casts a spell on the child, making her as light as air. Ever since that day, the princess has no gravity. The king’s advisors have a plan to make the princess become normal: she must get married. But how can they get a prince to fall in love with a floating princess? And how can a princess with no gravity fall into anything?
George MacDonald must have I-Can’t-Think-Of-Names-For-My-Characters Syndrome. The king, queen, princess, and prince don’t have names at all; and the characters that are named have names like Clanrunfort! This makes this book all the more fun, though. Highly recommended. The illustrator, Maurice Sendak, also wrote and illustrated Where the Wild Things Are and Pierre.
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Good Read Aloud, Horses, Marguerite Henry
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When Al Hoots buys the little, young mare, U-See-It, he feels sure that, even though she lost a race, she will become a great race horse. Once U-See-It comes into her strength, she wins many races, until an incident at a claiming race bans her and Al from all race tracks. Al decides to preserve her speed in her colt, Black Gold. Al doesn’t live to see Black Gold, but his wife, Rosa, carries out his wishes, and an old friend of Al’s, Hanley Webb, becomes Black Gold’s trainer. All are striving to reach a final goal: to have Black Gold win the Kentucky Derby.
The other plot in this book is about Jaydee Mooney, a young boy who knows horses. Jaydee has been training to be a jockey, and when he sees Black Gold race, he decides that he wants to ride Black Gold in the Kentucky Derby. This is a good book. I will warn you, however, that the ending is sad, and you feel bad for Mr. Webb, but this book is not to be missed.
Posted by Ruth
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Cats, Dogs, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Lions, P. L. Travers
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The fantastic adventures with Mary Poppins continues in this book with a story of the Swineherd and the Goosegirl, reuniting a hunter and his lion friend, dancing with shadows, a visit to a planet with talking cats, and much more.
The sweet and amiable Mary Poppins portrayed in the movie is very different from the strict and stern Mary Poppins in the book, but the books have many more adventures, and Michael and Jane are never sure whether they really happened or not. Mary Poppins never explains, of course.
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