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: Fantasy, Fiction, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Award Winner, Dragons, Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, My Father's Dragon, Quick Read, Ruth Stiles Gannett
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Elmer always wanted a dragon, so he’s overjoyed when an alley cat tells him about a dragon imprisoned on Jungle Island. Elmer goes to the rescue, but he has to overcome the animals who live there – with very funny results!
This one is fun, but not too difficult to read. The story continues in two more books about Elmer and his dragon friend.
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).
Posted by Jordan
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Betty Macdonald, Easy Read, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Quick Read
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside down house and married a pirate. She also loves kids, and lets them look for Mr. Piggle-Wiggle’s pirate treasure, which he buried in the backyard before he died. All the parents call her for advice on how to cure their children of bad habits. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has hilarious cures for almost anything. How do you cure a boy who won’t pick up his toys? You let him make his room so messy that he can’t get out!
Every chapter is a new cure. There’s Patsy, who won’t take a bath; Dick, who won’t share; and many more. Every one of these “ailments” is cured in a delightfully silly (yet sensible) way. And all the adults and children who are not important to the story have names like “Broomrack” and “Hearthrug”!
Posted by Rebekah
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Dogs, Easy Read, Insects, Jim Kjelgaard, Lizards, Out of Print
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Balulu is an Australian aborigine hunter. His tribe is suffering from a drought, and is slowly starving. Setting out with his dingo named Warrigal, Balulu searches for a better place for his tribe to live and hunt in. But, when he finally finds the perfect place, it proves to already be inhabited by another tribe, which might have hostile intentions.
There’s a lot of neat stuff in here, although, quite honestly, Balulu’s diet is rather, shall we say, different. Anyway, it’s interesting to read about how the aborigines lived and what they did. It also makes you appreciate even something like brussel sprouts! At least they aren’t sun-dried frog skins! (Although. . . I guess that point is debatable.)
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