tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36575239725011016502024-02-07T00:25:56.358-08:001001 children's booksBryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-47371763801163945722014-01-24T20:11:00.003-08:002014-01-24T20:13:36.354-08:00Toby Alone/ by Timothee de Fombelle<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiWAZkC02V1F9UxxgCT_PcSFieMQgviLxDDLYyrTMmjwAHt87SpyguavMD6mHr_KXKKRN_dfk6u-vOTvayvGRvNXBtpx8UBqZEqB9UgqS9MWaJe-yYoE1Cq4f76ys65L283pjmBCc-Ggz_/s320/defombelle+toby.jpg" /><br />
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Fast-paced adventure novel about Toby who is only 1,5mm tall. He is betrayed by everyone but only friend Elisha, who helps Toby to escape the ones who hunt for Toby and his family. Get this: his family lived in a tree but now they are expelled to lower branches.<br />
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Profound story of life going on midst the devastating war. Parvana, a young girl in search of her parents, is travelling through war torn Afghanistan. On her way she makes a new family with other children of war: abandoned baby Hassan, eight year old Leila and Asif, a boy who is missing a leg. They walk through the war, encountering devastation, death, hunger and pain.<br />
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<strong>Utterly Me, Clarice Bean</strong> by Lauren Child is a fast-paced chapter book that switches gears on nearly every page. Clarice narrates the story through diary entries about her daily life - each day is utterly exciting and always suspenseful as she pursues the coveted silver cup for the best book project while trying to solve all the mysterious things happening all around her. From her perspective, Clarice introduces us to her family including her younger brother who tends to be "utterly a nuisance", her classmates, her utterly best friend, Betty Moody, her horrible teacher Mrs. Wilberton and other adults at her school as well as her favorite heroine: Ruby Redfort, schoolgirl detective and other characters in her favorite series of books. The story line is one that anyone who remembers the anxiety of a school project can relate to but in the end, it is really a story of meaningful friendship and the love of reading. </div>
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-45055055446373589052013-08-05T00:56:00.002-07:002013-08-05T00:56:59.200-07:00Lotta's bike/ by Astrid Lindgren<img src="http://bilder.panorstedt.se/bilder/Omslag/224/29688900_O_1.jpg" /><br />
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Lotta's Bike is a story about a little girl Lotta who really wants to have a two wheel bike like her brothers have. When on her birthday mom and dad did not buy a bicycle for her, Lotta decides to borrow it from "auntie Berg", a sweet and caring neighbor. Lotta surely will get in trouble with a two wheel bike, but everything ends well. Astrid Lindgren is a very engaging Swedish author, who is very well known and loved in Europe and Russia. Unfortunately very few of her books are known in the USA with the exception of Pippi Longstocking.<br />
Other Lindgren's characters are Karlson, a flying man with a propeller; Emil from Lennerberg and Kalle Blumkvist, a detective.<br />
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224 of 1001Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-60443360451345335982013-08-05T00:10:00.000-07:002013-08-05T00:10:52.979-07:00CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 26px;">
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<strong>CHARLOTTE'S WEB</strong> by E.B. White is a masterful blend of whimsy, humor, gentle satire, and life-and-death drama and, above all, a powerful story of friendship. How sweet it was to share it with my friend, Myra. She could hardly get past the thought of the central characters being a pig, a spider and a rat but as we listened in on their conversations (Did I mention that these animals talked?) we were deeply moved by the loyalty, kindness and wisdom portrayed in this wonderful barnyard fable. Its a children's book which has much offer to adult readers. Complemented by the charming illustrations of Garth Williams, the story starts with an eight year old farm girl, Fern, who rescued a piglet about to be killed because he was the "runt" of the litter, and named him Wilbur. When Wilbur was weaned from the bottle he was sold to Fern's aunt and uncle just down the road where Fern visited him often. It was there that he was befriended by a very wise, loving and skilled spider (...yeah, one of those dreadfully scary, eight-legged, blood sucking creatures!) by the name of Charlotte and several other barnyard animals who could speak both with each other and with Fern. They were all a bunch of characters with distinct personalities and roles but one of the truly marvelous characters was Templeton the rat. Gluttonous, sneaky, often nasty, but curiously sympathetic and helpful, he's one you just hate to love but you can't help it! Templeton is what we call a great anti-hero. But the true heroine is the dear little gray spider, Charlotte who promises Wilbur she will save him from the way that most pigs go. (bacon and ham you know) And, she did, of course! </div>
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A moment later a tear came to Wilbur's eye. "Oh, Charlotte, he said. "To think that when I first met you I thought you were cruel and bloodthirsty!" When he recovered from his emotion, he spoke again."Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you."</div>
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-39030194131489253422013-08-05T00:08:00.000-07:002013-08-05T00:08:44.131-07:00YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES by Sam McBratney <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0G6Bdqup4xL-9q__pts1ZuBE8KVSRNGFMlV8CH_hzWmIi4nqgC1OzYGV1ka_BLLUQbJcfqkOSfjaeJuCOnekfEZJ612AqtJUEOHgBkHFFJyoH6eB5oIqG4ZbrQGuuAi6ilUXj-YiMY2w/s400/youre-all-my-favorites.jpg" /><br />
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<span id="ecxbtAsinTitle">YOU'RE ALL MY FAVORITES written by Sam McBratney and illustrated by Anita Jeram is the sweet story of a mother bear, a father bear and three baby bears not unlike any loving family of five... not unlike my own. It shows that no matter if the baby is a boy or a girl, big or small or has different features each is loved unconditionally. I always felt I did a good job of making our three sons know this. No mater which on you might ask, he will tell you he has always been my favorite!</span></div>
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<strong>MR AND MRS PIG'S EVENING OUT </strong>by Mary Rayner is a delightfully illustrated story, not so much about the joys of an evening away from their ten darling little piglets as it is about the wit and resourcefulness of the piglets to deal with what was suppose to be a very nice lady from "the agency". Unnoticed by the parents, anxious to get out the door after tucking their little ones into bed, they left them with one who turned out to be a very untrustworthy babysitter by the name of Mrs. Wolf. Parents returning to a babysitter in restraints is not usually the happy ending of a night out, but in this case, it was. </div>
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-62984114731783001482013-08-05T00:02:00.000-07:002013-08-05T00:02:07.367-07:00A NECKLACE OF RAINDROPS/ by Joan Aiken<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
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<strong>A NECKLACE OF RAINDROPS </strong>is a collection of eight stories written by Joan Aiken and illustrated by Jan Pienkowski. These delightfully fanciful stories kept Myra and I entertained during eight of our visits there at the nursing home. We enjoyed each one, packed with whimsical scenarios and fun moments and kept bits of them stuck in our heads in between our visits. Unforgettable! Of course there is the necklace of raindrops, each with a special power, the girl who had to be washed with her dress on and hung out on the line to dry so it wouldn't shrink past her and her wishing mat, an old woman who accidentally baked a bit of sky in her pie, the three travelers who attended to the train station in the desert, the cat who ate the yeast, the patchwork quilt and the camels and the traffic lights from Beirut. What fun!</div>
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<strong>JOHN BROWN, ROSE AND THE MIDNIGHT CAT</strong>, story by Jenny Wagner and illustrations by Ron Brooks is a beautiful book that can be shared together with children and adults as I did with my friend, Myra. We related to the sweet story of longtime companionship between the elderly woman Rose and her large, shaggy, loving dog John Brown. Both were content with their close-knit friendship but while Rose was ready to open her heart and home to the the Midnight Cat, John Brown was reluctant to allow the addition of this black cat needing food and love. He was not sure he wanted to share his beloved Rose. By the book's end, John Brown has overcome his difficult and complicated emotion: jealousy. This is the perfect book to help children get ready for a baby brother or sister.</div>
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<strong>COME AWAY FROM THE WATER, SHIRLEY </strong>by John Burningham tells the same story from two different perspectives. The pictures and dialog on one side of each turn of the page tells of a perfectly ordinary trip to the beach from Shirley's parents perspective but the enchanting pictures with no text on the opposite pages tells what goes on in this young girl's imagination during that same perfectly ordinary trip to the beach with her parents. A delightful book! </div>
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-12566309536421593242013-02-02T19:13:00.003-08:002013-02-02T19:14:09.773-08:00Velveteen rabbit/ Margery Williams<strong></strong><br />
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215 of 1001Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-17346765103946203572013-02-02T19:10:00.001-08:002013-02-02T19:10:45.167-08:00The house that Jack built<div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">
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<strong>THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT </strong>is a popular British nursery rhyme and cumulative tale. I enjoyed reading the words I remembered from my childhood and the illustrations of Randolph Caldecott the British artist and eponym of the Caldecott Medal. The rhyme does not tell the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, but instead shows how the house is indirectly linked to things and people including "The Man all tattered and torn" that kissed the "Maiden all forlorn" and other characters and events. <br />
On the back cover of the book, I enjoyed reading a brief bio on Mr Caldecott. I had seen the Caldecott Medal on many of the books included in our 1001 Children's Books. It was fun to make the connection to the eponym of this prestigious award.<br />
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-85836604097025127922013-01-24T12:29:00.004-08:002013-02-02T19:07:33.530-08:00Good night, Alfie Atkins/ by Gunilla BergstromVery hard to find book by a Swedish author Gunilla Bergstrom tells the story of Alfie Atkins who does not want to go to bed! He asks his Dad to bring him some water and then to look for a scary lion in the closet and then to find the teddy bear.And so on, and so on. In the end, exhausted Daddy falls asleep right on the floor in the middle of the room.<br />
"Now Dady has read a story, gotten the toothbrush, changed the sheet on the bed, .............. looked for a lion, found Teddy... and gotten very tired. So tired that he has fallen asleep on the floor<. He is lying there snoring loudly"<br />
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I loved Daddy's character, who is smoking pipe on every page! He is wearing funky looking sweater and green slippers, and he snores too! Very realistic Daddy indeed!<br />
The whole story is very amusing and i could relate to it because my little sisters playes the same tricks on me : "monsters under the bed", "i need to go to the bathroom", "im thrirsty", "tell me the story" etc etc. <br />
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Overall, very heart-warming book with bright illustrations and charming Daddy who will remind you of Popey, the Sailor man<br />
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<br />Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-67150422549526916052013-01-24T12:18:00.003-08:002013-02-02T19:06:41.188-08:00Madlenka/ by Peter Sis<img height="252" id="il_fi" src="http://www.scholastic.com/content5/media/products/96/9780374399696_xlg.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="230" /><br />
A story about a young girl who is happy to share her "loose tooth" experience with all the neighborhood where she lives. "Hey, everyone... my tooth is loose!" - she proudly announces.<br />
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Mdlenka then shares her joy with Mr. Gaston, the French baker; Mr. Eduardi, the greencgrocer; Mrs Kham who is from Asia ( Asia is so big! Could the author be more specific?) and other people who know Madlenka.<br />
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The story is beautifully illustrated, with many details to notice only after reading the book for several times. Cut-out windows invite children to peek into the world of Madlenka's friends filled with magic and the excitement of far-off lands.<br />
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<br />Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-60155197506233029772013-01-20T23:35:00.003-08:002013-01-20T23:45:23.608-08:00Meg and Mog/ by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lovely Halloween book starring a charming witch and her black cat going to a spell party. It is a funny, warm and memorable work with bright illustrations which invite a child to participate as the story develops. I would recommend this book to educators for preschool story times. Enjoy a video version of the book on Youtube!<br />
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Ksenia RBryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-36264036241257292442013-01-18T20:05:00.002-08:002013-01-18T20:05:11.587-08:00The biggest kiss in the world/ by R Chavez Castaneda<br />
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It is a book about kisses writtenfor kids. It was supposed to be witty and funny, but turned out to be bland( maybe i just did not dig it!) Hopefully, some kissers will get a kick out of it.<br />
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Ksenia RBryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-2433857816805335012013-01-10T23:23:00.001-08:002013-01-11T00:42:03.992-08:00Amigos del otro lado/ Friends from the other side/ by Gloria Anzaldua<img height="400" id="il_fi" sb_id="ms__id2083" src="http://images.indiebound.com/301/391/9780892391301.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="354" /><br />
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Sad but hopeful story of friendship, fear and acceptance. Joaquin is a young Mexican boy who is being called "wetback" or "mojado" by other children in the neighborhood. He and his mother crossed the river to get to the USA only to find themselves in poverty and despair again. Joaquin befriends Prietita, Mexican American girl and this blossoming friendship helps the boy to forget his daily fears of "migra" ( Border Patrol) and bullies. Well illustrated, beautifully narrated, bilingual work. Illustrations contain a great deal of cultural information pertained to Mexican culture. The book could be a great tool for cultural discussions.<br />
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Ksenia R<br />
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<br />Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-26160023525891479502013-01-10T21:49:00.002-08:002013-01-10T21:49:33.537-08:00The hundred and one dalmatians/ by Dodie Smith<strong><img height="240" id="il_fi" sb_id="ms__id2159" src="http://www.handcrafteddelights.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/101-dalmatians.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="240" /></strong><br />
<strong>THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS </strong>written by Dodie Smith is the story of Pongo and Missis with their keen brains, willing spirits and good hearts coming together with others in British Dogdom through the Twilight Barking network to rescue the puppies stolen by the evil, Cruella de Vil. If you are a dog person or just curious about why the neighbor's dog is barking you will delight in the surprisingly moving cameos of the dogs in this book. Myra and I loved the Christmas Eve episode where the puppies briefly take refuge in a strange lofty building where they found "individual dog beds" in front of every seat and a "silent television" depicting a mother, father and baby surrounded by animals. The littlest pup, Cadpig, wondered who owned it - someone very kind, she was sure. Touching.<br />
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-22071462311477168062012-12-22T19:57:00.002-08:002013-01-11T00:39:05.826-08:00Figgie Hobbin/ by Charles Causley<strong><img height="320" id="il_fi" sb_id="ms__id2043" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CJNP5rVjL._SL500_.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="184" /></strong><br />
<strong>FIGGIE HOBBIN </strong> is a collection of 13 children's poems written by Charles Causley and complimented with delicate line drawings of Trina Schart Hyman. I enjoyed the delightful random nonsense of many of the poems contrasted with the thought provoking introspect of others. Starting with <em>I Saw a Jolly Hunter </em>with its suprising ending each poem has a life all its own. The last poem in the book is the one from which the book gets its title. It speaks of the old King of Cornwell, tempted with all sorts of exotic dishes, who petulantly tells his servants to take it all away and bring him what he really wants--a humble dish of <em>Figgie Hobbin</em>. - pudding sweetened with a handful of raisins (raisins being "figs" and figs "broad raisins"). A lot like me... when I find something on the menu I like, I'm not likely to try anything else. <br />
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Bonnie R<br />
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207 of 1001Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-53710412407095277562012-12-22T19:53:00.001-08:002012-12-22T19:53:11.379-08:00Cloudy with a chance of meatballs/ Judi Barrett<strong><img height="320" id="il_fi" src="http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/09/78/06/89/70/0978068970749_500X500.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="320" /></strong><br />
<strong>CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS</strong> written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. Who knew that flipping pancakes on a Saturday morning could inspire Grandpa to tell his grandchildren such bedtime story! The wild tale was about the town of Chewandswallow where there are no grocery stores because the weather comes three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and is always food and beverages. The rain is juice and soup, the snow is mashed potatoes, and the wind brings hamburgers and such. But this phenomenon is not all peaches and cream! The weather takes a turn for the worse, and brings disgusting things, like pea soup fog, and one one occasion nothing but stinky Gorgonzola cheese all day long. Finally, it becomes catastrophic as the portion sizes grow to massive sizes, and the entire island is crushed with a severe storm of food. The people of Chewandswallow escape on rafts made of huge slices of stale bread to a world where the sky doesn't bring food, grocery stores are handy and no-one ever got hit by a hamburger again.<br />
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-26970228164963437572012-12-22T19:50:00.002-08:002012-12-22T19:50:21.589-08:00The paper bag princess/ by Robert Munsch<strong><img height="296" id="il_fi" sb_id="ms__id6080" src="http://jeanporter.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/file/view/The_Paper_Bag_Princess.gif/222346340/The_Paper_Bag_Princess.gif" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="300" /></strong><br />
<strong>THE PAPER BAG PRINCESS</strong> written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko is a delightful story of Princess Elizabeth who plans on marrying Prince Ronald when a fire breathing dragon detroys her kingdom, kidnaps her beloved Ronald, and burns all her princess clothes. She can find noting to wear but a paper bag. She does not look the same but in the aftermath she proves herself to be a brave, smart and resilient young woman. Elizabeth follows the dragon and Ronald, and seeking to rescue her fiance. She plays on the dragon's ego to defeat him and rescues her darling Ronald. But Prince Ronald can't look through the paper bag to see the treasure he has in Elizabeth. He ungratefully orders her to go away and not return until she looks more like a princess. Elizabeth realizes that this narcissistic and selfish prince is not worthy of the love she has shown him. She leaves this shallow, conceited jerk never to return and lived happily ever after, we are sure.<br />
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Myra and I agreed, being a princess is fine but to be strong, resilient and smart is great! Having a man in your life can be wonderful but it is best to hold out for one who sees more than your outward beauty and recognizes and appreciates who you are.<br />
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Bonnie R<br />
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205 of 1001Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-42779898368656525122012-12-22T19:46:00.001-08:002012-12-22T19:46:26.890-08:00The girl who loved wild horses/ Paul Goble<div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">
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<strong>THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES </strong>written and illustrated by Paul Goble combines vibrant artwork and a mature writing style to tell a "coming of age" story. This truly inspirational, Native American legend shows us that if we pursue what we truly love long enough and with all our heart we will achieve it. With each turn of the page we are taken along the path of this girl's passage from the security of family and village through the stormy, frightening, sad and exhilarating times leading her to the Independence of adulthood. Myra commented that the book took her through breath-holding emotions to a big, big smile as the girl who loved horses finally becomes what she loves. <br />
Don't we all want to become what we love? <br />
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Bonnie R.<br />
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Bryan Roederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10090761445612903688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657523972501101650.post-21108090484679761872012-12-22T19:43:00.000-08:002012-12-22T19:43:06.298-08:00The people could fly/ by V Hamilton<div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">
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<strong>THE PEOPLE COULD FLY </strong>by Virginia Hamilton is a fantasy of American Black folklore telling the story of slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. With powerful illustrations of Leo and Diane Dillon on every page it depicts the heartbreaking human anguish and cruelty of slavery and the hope-filled striking beauty of freedom of those who found it in reality or only in their imaginations.<br />
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Isaiah and I shared this gripping and moving reading.<br />
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Bonnie R<br />
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