Categories: Fiction, Picture Books, Review, Younger Readers
Tags:Animals, Easy Read, Eric Carle, Funny, Insects, Quick Read 
2 Comments »
Our rating: 
One night, a caterpillar hatches and finds that he is very, very hungry. He eats and eats and eats and eats and eats — and soon is a big, fat caterpillar. Then he makes a cocoon….
A nice, colorful, humorous book. I like it.
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Cats, Dogs, Freddy the Pig, Funny, Horses, Mice, Pigs, Snakes, Walter R. Brooks, Westerns 4 Comments »
Our rating:
Mr. Elihu Margarine and his family have just moved to the Beans’ neighborhood. Mr. Margarine likes to hunt foxes and he rides over everyone’s property, not caring what gets destroyed. And on top of that, a rattlesnake is threatening the lives of several animals. Freddy is determined to stop both menaces, but it’s not an easy task.
Like most of the Freddy series, this is a very funny book. Freddy’s Comanche Kid disguise adds to the humor. I very much recommend that you read this book. Enjoy!
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Funny, Good Read Aloud, Seafaring, Sid Fleischman, Westerns 4 Comments »
Our rating:
Jack and his aunt’s butler Praiseworthy are stowaways on a ship headed for gold territory. They try to be honest stowaways and present themselves to the captain, who puts them to work tending the steam boiler. Captain Swain is not happy, as he is in a race with another steam ship, with heavy bets on both sides. And once they reach gold country, what will Praiseworthy do when he accidentally acquires a reputation as a fighter, and is challenged by The Mountain Ox, the roughest, toughest gold miner in California?
Sid Fleischman writes a good yarn, while making parts of it believable. Just about every page has some joke to it. Praiseworthy is a great mastermind, and Jack is always willing to go along. The ending may surprise you. There’s an interesting plot twist in there.
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Award Winner, Elizabeth George Speare, Funny, Good Read Aloud, Indians, Pioneers 2 Comments »
Our rating:
After they finish their cabin in Maine, Matt’s father starts back for Massachusetts, leaving twelve year old Matt behind to guard the cabin. Matt has fun living by himself, until he tackles a nest of bees. An old Indian chief and his grandson Attean have been watching him and decide to help Matt out. In return, Matt agrees to teach Attean to read and speak English. The two boys resent the forced friendship at first, but end up doing everything together. What will Matt do when his father returns?
Well, this is a great book. I gave it four stars, because it’s a bit slow at the start, but it picks up later. You will learn a lot of interesting things about Pioneers and Indians. There was a TV movie of this book called Keeping the Promise, but I haven’t seen it.
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fantasy, Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Dragons, E. Nesbit, Funny Add a comment »
Our rating:
A book of dragon stories by Edith Nesbit.
An enjoyable book! Also on this site we have Five Children and It, also reviewed by me and written by E. Nesbit. The Dragon Tamers is among my favorite stories in The Book of Dragons.
Cleaker 2.1 Theme created by Adam Walker Cleaveland with Widget support added by Chris Webb. Modded for Incredibooks by Jordan Smith.
content rss | comments rss 
Creative Commons
