At first glance, this is the story of two girls who form an unlikely alliance and friendship. But dig deeper, and you'll find ties like, "strands of spider silk: practically invisible, maybe, but strong as steel" which are woven throughout this fiction novel. Stella and Angel barely talk to each ...
This is another Clementine story. In this book, Clementine has been chose to be the friend of the week and will get a book Friday filled with all the good things her classmates have to say about her. She is very excited and tells her mom and dad and her friend Margaret. Of course, since Margaret ...
Clementine and the Family Meeting by Sara Pennypacker I would love having Clementine in my class at school. She is herself at all times. I admire that. She would be a great friend. She is creative and funny. Although I have to say she does some things that would make my 9-year old self a lit...
We love these books. They pass pretty much all of my criteria for children's books:1: have good pictures that are more interesting the longer you look at them (we are Marla Frazee fans)2: can be read aloud without wincing at poor sentence structure, have good rhythm and sentence length3: are beli...
Amazon credits this as *by* Jeff Brown and since I'd never heard of this follow up series I was rather disappointed to find out it is not written by him at all, only based on his character. Anyway, the actual author, Sara Pennypacker, did a nice job here and I was well pleased with this start to...
37 months - this was the first Flat Stanley book we've read. I picked it out because we were on a trip to Mount Rushmore and I thought it would be a fun way for O to connect with what we were going to see and maybe learn something about the area, the monument etc. I was disappointed as there re...
In this book Clementine and the spring trip by Sara Pennypacker, a curious little girl named Clementine starts to worry about a field trip that her class is going to be going on. She thinks that the fourth graders will try to punish her because she makes while she's eating and there is a specific...
I love Marla Frazee's illustrations. Having read only book 1 in this series, and then jumping in here at book 6, I didn't feel like I'd missed anything important, although I wonder if that's really true. Perhaps what makes Clementine special is her ability and willingness to empathize with her fr...
A darkly illustrated book telling the true tale of the decimation of the sparrow population in China in 1958. Dictator Mao Tse Tung believed the sparrows were eating too much wheat. So he ordered the Chinese people to make as much noise as possible over three days to kill the birds with heart att...
Genre- Children's Picture BooksThe text begins with a reference to Hamlet: "There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." More mature readers would associate any quotation from Hamlet as an ominous sign- something drastic is going to happen in this text. This is a GREAT way to open i...