Reading Review with Christal

Title: Love that Dog Author/Illustrator: Sharon Creech Genre: Fiction Awards: IRA/CBC Children's Choice; Carnegie Medal Finalist; Amazon.com Editors' Pick; School Library Journal Best Book; Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts (NCTE); ALA Notable Children's Book, and many more Age: 9-12 This book is about a boy named Jack who wasn't sure how to write poetry and thought it was something just for girls to do. Miss Stretchberry kept assigning poetry assignments and he couldn't get out of them, and since he originally thought poetry was for girls only he already went into it feeling discouraged. With every assignment his teacher gave them, he didn't want his name put on it, because he felt like others would think it wasn't real poetry or that some of his poems would make them feel a certain way. After his teacher read some work from Walter Dean Myers, Jack was instantly inspired by him. At the beginning of the story Jack felt like he didn't...

Title: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear Author/Illustrator: Lindsay Mattick/Sophie Blackall Genre: Nonfiction Major Awards: Caldecott Medal (2016) Age: 3-6 This book is about the true story of how Winnie-the-Pooh became famous. The story starts off by a little boy who has his mother reading him a bedtime story. The story she tells them is about Harry Colebourn, he was a veterinarian and cared for horses. He went to help care for the horses who got injured during the war, and when they made a stop in White River, he noticed a bear tied to a post and this trapper had her tied there, so he paid $20 for her and she became one of their own. He named her Winniepeg, Winnie to remind him and his troops of their home in Winnipeg Canada, and so they could that they were never that far from home. They took care of her, fed her, loved her, and even played with her. During the war, Winnie traveled with them and had her own little post and job. They discovered...

Title: Double Happiness Author/Illustrator: Nancy Tupper Ling/Alina Chau Genre: Fiction Age: 5-8 This book is told from the two children talking about things they experience as they are moving from their old home. the two children Jack and Gracie are sad to leave their home and all the things that make it special such as the trolleys, Nai Nai, Auntie Su and Uncle Woo, and many other little things. They decide to keep a little box with treasures in it from their traveling and remind them of their old home. When they were both young they decided to keep memories inside a special box and it was their happiness boxes.  Their goal was to find 4 treasures on their way to their new home. When Gracie went to visit Nai Nai, she had a panda sitting on the window she let her take it to remember her by. They kept score of how many they each had and it was like a game, the first to 4 would win. Jack wanted things that grrr and whirl, so his first item was a dragon, with its sharp claws and...

Title: Maybe Something Beautiful Authors/Illustrator: F. Isabel Campoy & Theresa Howell/Rafael Lopez Genre: Fiction Age: 4-8 This book is about a little girl who transformed her neighborhood through art. Mira enjoyed painting and she had many of her own paintings hanging in her room. Her town was bleak and din't have many colors around. She was filled with joy and life while her town wasn't. One day on her way to school she started passing out some of her pieces, and taped one to the side of a wall that was hiding in shadows, her city was a little less gray, but not by much. One day as Mira saw a man looking at her work and she asked him what he saw ad he replied "Maybe...something beautiful".  So, he took his brushes and started painting away,Mira asked who he was and he told her he was an artist, so he gave her a paintbrush and they started painting the city away. As people saw them they started to join in as well and they listened to music as they painted ...

Title: The Invisible Boy Author/Illustrator: Trudy Ludwig/Patrice Barton Genre: Fiction Major Awards: School Library Journal Best Book of the Year (Winner); Georgia Children’s Book Award (Nominee 2016) Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee 2015); IRA Teachers’ Choices (Selection 2014); Nebraska Golden Sower Master List (Selection 2015) Age: 6-9 This book is about a boy who feels invisible to his classmates and even his teacher until a new student comes along and becomes friends with him. Everyday people ignored him and didn't care to notice him. One day at recess they were picking teams to play kickball and the best players were picked, then their best friends, then the friends of the players already on the team, and when one of the team captains saw that Brian was the only option left, he said they had enough on each team, when there was really room for him to play. At lunch they were talking about how great Madison's birthday party was, and Brian felt so left out because ...