Reading Review with Christal

Title: The Storyteller Author/Illustrator: Evan Turk Major Awards: ALA Notable Children's Books; Aesop Accolade; Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award (NY); Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Multicultural Books List; Chicago Public Library's Best of the best; Children's Africana Book Award; Texas Bluebonnet nominee: 2017-2018 Genre: Fantasy Fiction Age: 4-8 This book is about a boy whose whole village has gone without water. This book includes a story within a story. The little boy is given a brass cup by a water-seller and he said if you find water you can drink, drink it and share with others. On his journey home, the boy met an old man, who was sitting at a fountain that didn't have any water, the old man told him to sit and his thirst would be quenched. The old man began with a story about how not too long ago there was a terrible drought in the village, like the one happening to them right now. One family had always had ...

Title: Henny Penny Author/Illustrator: H. Werner Zimmermann Genre: Fiction; Fantasy Age: 4-8 This book is about a hen who gets hit on the head by an acorn and thinks that the sky is falling. Once the acorn falls onto her head, her journey to the King she meets some of her friends who wanted to go with her such as Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey, while they're on their journey to the King, they were protective helmets in case anything else falls on them. They then met Foxy Loxy who said he would show them a shortcut, but took them right to his cave instead, and they went in and never came out. Since they were now gone no one could tell the King that the sky was falling. it ends with and image of Foxy Loxy plucking his teeth, and we see a few helmets, which is what each character was wearing, implying that the fox most likely ate them. I would love to read my students this book, because they could get involved. After the first time of reading it, some ma...

Title: Little Robot Author/Illustrator: Ben Hatke Genre: Fiction Awards: Eisner Award Winner & Nominee; Illinois Gryphon Award; Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year; Age: 6-9 This little adventurous girl, sneaks out of her house and goes on a journey, while on this journey she discovers a box, and in this box was this little robot. She activated him without knowing it and the robot became "alive", he struggled to walk, so I assume it was his first time being turned on. At first the little girl was scared of the robot, but she helped him stand up, and then taught him how to walk. In the next scene they show us the boxes being unloaded into a warehouse, and each was scanned, and the computer noticed that the little robot the girl found was the one that was missing. Next there was a system that went out to catch this little robot who was missing. The next chapter we see the girl and the robot walking down the street and the robot encounters a cat and gets scared of th...

Title: If You Give A Moose A Muffin Author/Illustrator: Laura Joffe Numeroff/Felicia Bond Genre: Fiction Age: 4-8 This book is about a child who gave a moose a muffin, that let to other events unfolding. It all started when the little boy gave the moose a muffin, the moose wanted some jam to go with it and the child gave him some of his mother's homemade blackberry jam. He finished eating that muffin and wanted another and another and ate them all, so he asked the little boy to make more. He was going to head to the store to get more muffin mix, and the moose wanted to go with. Once he opened the door he realized how chilly it was and asked to borrow a sweater. The boy gave him a sweater to borrow, but the moose noticed a button was loose. He asked for needle and thread and as he was sewing he remembered how his grandmother would make puppets. So he asked for some old socks, to make sock puppets with. When he finished he wanted to put on a show, so hey gathered cardboard and p...

Title: The Three Billy Goats Gruff Author/Illustrator: Paul Galdone Genre: Fairy Tales; Fiction Age: 4-7 This book is about three goats who walked over this bridge and they each get stopped by this troll who wants to eat these billy goats, and how they outsmarted him. They lived on a hillside and were hungry and wanted to get fat the only way to do so was to cross the bridge, which was over a rushing river and a Troll lived underneath it. The first Billy Goat Gruff was tiny and small and warned that a bigger goat was coming along and that he would fill him up, rather than a tiny goat. So the Troll let him go free. Then came along the second slightly larger Billy Goat Gruff and as he was crossing the bridge the Troll stopped him as well. He said he was going to eat him up, but the second billy goat, like the first one warned that a bigger billy goat was coming along and would fill up the Troll. So the Troll let him go as well. Along comes the third and biggest billy goat and like t...