This book is just so lovely and succinct. It's a little younger than I usually enjoy, but I picked it up for my second grader and became enthralled. The voice of the main character, a 10 year old girl is so real and the sketch drawings are perfect. The book covers some serious things without b...
The pictures in this book are captivating and filled with colors. The different shading and usage of colors makes it stand out even more. This story is about a duck that is always doing something new, something different to entertain his peers. It's an excited story for young children because it'...
The author uses the craft of playfulness of time in the story. The character decides to enter the contest and write the best story. The family of the character gives her advice on what to right about and she tries out each story genre. Every time she tells the story it is different based upon wha...
Diana loves where she lives. She loves the astronomy charts on her walls and the fact that she can wave to her best friend, Rose, from her very own window. And best of all, a wren has recently made its home right by her front door! When her family is forced to move, Diana wonders if she?ll ever f...
Hair frizzled. It was a sweltering dag in Lumberville—long before stores, businesses, or homes had air conditioners. Newspaper headlines declared... HEAT WAVE Pastor Denkins shortened his sermon. The Green Door Restaurant served fruit plates with orange sherbert. Abigail Blue and her little broth...
Harden nearly died today. I know because I was there. I saw her slumped on her kitchen floor looking white as an egg. I wasn’t there from the beginning, though. Only from the time my little brother, Parker, went missing. THE BEGINNING It seems Parker wanted to drive somewhere on his new trike. He...