Beauty

"And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful"

Beauty
By Robin McKinley
Copeyright 1978
Haper Trophy
Fairy Tale
Middle School Age or maybe even 4th or 5th
247 Pages

A sixteen year old girl with a nick name that is far but what she is, Beauty, has her own tale of magic and the prosses of love that only those who know how to look beyound what they see can have.  Beauty was anything but beautiful, she was awkward and not very porportional.  She knew she was not beautiful and did not like her nick name at all because of it.  Her sisters however were beautiful and it was common for guys to give them a poper hello by even bowing to them and just nodding their head to Beauty.  Hope, Grace, Hounor (Beauty) live with their father in the city and have a very good life until, the bussness goes under when their father lost all his ships in a storm.  They all took this hard, they lost basicly everything, Grace even lost her love.  The family moves with Hopes soon to be husban (Ger) and they move far away from the big city to the kind of place they have never really lived before.  OH before they moved they had an auction for all their belongings.  Most everything was sold, but some people gave the family things, including a horse the Beauty had helped take care of since it was born.  This horse needed her, she was the only one that it would listion too.  So the family moved.  Ger was the new town blacksmith and they moved to a little cabin right by the woods.  These woods were not what they seemed to be though.  Nothing lived in them, no animals ever came out of the forest.  People told stories about this place, that is why they had lost their two blacksmiths before Ger.  Inside these woods, lived ... the beast.  After all the stories they were told never to go into the woods.  Beauty who was now even more interested remaind out side of them, but not after she went a little inside them. 
Their father got a letter saying that one of his ships had returned, this made Grace on edge hopping it was Robbies boat (Rod, the man that she loves, and even though it has been a long time she still loves him)  He leaves to go back to the city.  When he returns, their lives are changed forever.  He had gotten lost in the woods, he had found the castle, he had met the beast.  All because he tried to take one of the roses, he would have to return with Beauty, and she would then belong to the beast.  He told them all this story.  When the time came Beauty left with her father, of course there was much discussion about this, but she has made up he mind, she was going, by her own free will.  They found the castle, all you have to do is get lost in the woods and you will find it, and her fathers horse was too afriad to go in there again, but Beauty and Greatheart went.  She told her father goodbye, and she entered the gates to the castle. 
The enchantment of the castle started to grow on her, of corse at first she was a little bit firghtened, but she spent six months there.  Everyday was about the same.  The beast that she was so afraid of at the start, began to grow on her.  Everynight after dinner he would ask her to marry him, she said no, but everytime it got harder.  She hated dressing in the fancy dresses, she thought they were too beautiful for someone as ugly as her to wear them.  The beast (who I did fall in love with reading this book) thought she was beautiful "And since i am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful"  There are no mirrors in the castle, since the beast would not be looking at himself, so to him, the only one that can see her, she is beautiful.  She loved his libary, that had books that werent even writen yet in them, he gave her everything, and still night after night she said no. 
Something happened, she found out through another one of the castles enchantments that Graces love had returned.  The beast let her go to her family, she had to tell Grace, because there was another who wanted her hand and the family was trying to convince her to marry him.  BUT if Beauty did not come back in a week, the beast would die, because he cannot live without her.  She spent her week and an extra day at home with her family.  They had sent letters to Robbie to tell him where they were and hope that he would return with the person who they sent the letters with.  The night at she stayed extra she had a dream that Beast was dead.  She woke up and saw the rose he gave her before she left and saw that it was wilted and brown and the pettles were fallen.   She raced to him, she could not find the castle.  Her and Greatheart had no energy.  They found the catsle after such a long time with such little rest, and she ran to him , still having trouble in the castle finding her way.  Then she found him, just like in her dream, he was there sitting still, unresponsive.  She called his name she was crying, "My love wake up."  He did awake, and he thought she had broken her promise.  She was there, and was never going to leave again, Beauty loved Beast and wanted to marry him.  Something happened, and when she opened her eyes Beast was no longer there and it was a man, the man from the painting she had seen in one of the rooms in the castle.  After a having to have the conversation of what just happened because Beauty started worring were her Beast was and that she could not marry this guy, he was her Beast, and they did marry.

I would recomend this book to anyone.  It was a little slow at the start but I really got into it and I think that it was a really good book.  I already told all my roommates that they should read it.  I think I kinda liked it better then the disney movie.

It was a little slow at the start, but it was so beautifuly writen, it kind of makes up for that.

I loved this book.  I want to read the other book for it.  I felt like I could be Beauty.  People calling her Beauty when she thought she was nothing of the sort.  She thought so lowly of herself.  Now all I need is to meet my Beast Prince, who thinks that I am beautful.  That is why I love that qoute so much, because when you ar ein love or someone loves you, what does it matter what you look like, because they love you, and they see you for you and to them you are the most beautiful person in the world. 
"And since i am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful"

Children Just Like Me

Children Just Like Me
By: Barnabas & Anabel Kindersley
Copyright 1995
DK Publishing, Inc.
Age:?
Non Fiction (Informational)
79 Pages

Children all around the world are not that different, yes they may look different but inside they are all the same.  In the book there were lots of kids introdcued from all over the world, who you would think would be so different but really ended up having a lot in common.  They all have hopes and dreams.  It is really intersting to read about them. What each child does during the day and what their families are like kind of makes you take a look at you life and relate and feel and wonder about so many different things. 

I would recomend a teacher to have this in their class and to read it when studing about differnt cultures or things like that.  It would be a great reminder that though different on the outside, on the inside children all over the world are just like eachother

I did not find anything wrong in this book.

I loved this book.  I really did.  It really got me thinking.

Carnivores

"The jaws of many carnivores move up and down.  This helps them tear and bite meat."

Carnivores
By: Heather C. Hudak
Copyright 2005
Weigl Publishing Inc.
Non Fiction (Informational)
Older Elementary School Age
24 Pages

Carnivores are those animals that eat meat.  Most of them hunt and kill their own pray.  Each is built in a way that makes it easy and helpful for hunting.  They have jaws for killing and chewing and the digestive system to help them digest meat.  They have very keen senese that help them locate their pray and to hunt.  Every animal is different, some have hightented hearing, smell, or sight.  All help them hunt their pray.  They can be found anywhere, land or water, there are carnivores all over the world.  A few exsamples of them are: Cheetah, swift fox, blue whale, least weasel, and the peregrine falcon.  Even just looking at those you can tell that they are all of different shapes and sizes and build differently.  There are many carnivors that are hunted and are endangered and close to extintion.  The biggest issue with this is humans, hunting and/or destroying habitats of animals.  The food chain cannot keep going if these animals are dying, it effects all the animals.

I would recomend this book to students who are interested in different kind of animals.  Also to a teacher to teach about different kind of carnivors and teach students that they are all different. 

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed learning about this books.  Most of the time you forget that there are some animals that are carnivores that you probly wouldn't think are.  So it was a good reminder to me.

Giant Pandas

"Giant pandas are flexible.  They can touch their heads with their hind feet."

Giant Pandas
By: Don Cruickshank
Copyright 2007
Weigl Publishers Inc.
Non Fiction (Informational)
Elementary School Age
24 Pages

Giant panda live in the mountains and forests in China, and are rarely seen because they are shy animals.  They spend most their time looking for bamboo, that is what they eat for food.  They have opposable thumb and razor-shrap teeth that help them eat the bamboo, if they did not have these then eating it would not be that easy for them.  The panda is back and white which helps keep them warm when it is cold and cool when it is hot.  The giant panda lives alone and rarely comes in contact with others.  They mark their territory with their sent so other giant pandas know that another panda lives there.  Durring the day the pandas chill out and eat and are most active durring the night and also durrning mating season.  The giant panda's diet is 99% bamboo, they will eat about 25 and 30 punds of bamboo a day!  Their days goes for just about 8 hours of eatting 4 hours of sleep and wake up to eat more.  The pandas are hunted by humans and have put a major decline in the population of  the giant panda.  There are only about 1,000 of them left in the world, more then 160 of them are in zoos and breeding centers. 

I would recomend this book to anyone interested in pandas.  In the back of the book there are myths and legonds that are pretty intersting about the panda. 

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed the book, I learned something new and was really interested.

How do Bats Fly in the Dark?

"Both bats and birds have wings.  That is where their similarities end."

How do Bats Fly in the Dark?
By: Melissa Stewart
Copyright 2009
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Non Fiction (Informational)
Older Elementary School Age
31 Pages

Bats are often mistaken for birds when people look up to the night sky and think they see a bird, most likely they see a bat.  Bats sleep durring the day and play at night.  There are two types of bats: Megabats and Microbats.  Megabats live in the warm and tropical and eat mostly fruit. Microbats live all over the world and they mostly hunt insects.  Microbats also have the better eyesight out of the two groups of bats.  Bats make noises by making clicking noises with their tonuge, there are also many bats who use their noses.  Bats use sounds to find out where they are in relation to other things.  They will make a sound and listion for its echo, since really bats are mostly blind they have amazing hearing and that is how they know where they are and also do their hunting.  Bats wings are lightweight and flexible.  They have their hand and finger bones fused with their wings for extra strength.  So the big question is how do the bats fly in the dark?  They use their body and their wings to fly and all the other things, using sound to know where they are.  Bats were built for their conditions.

I would recomend this book for a teacher to use for her class when teaching about bats.  There is even an activity in the end of the book.  Also if a child wants to learn about bats they should read this.

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book.  Though I thought it would be written differently, but it was interesting.

The Senses

*The picture for this book is not a picture of the book, they are two different books, but I was unable to find a picture of the book so I am using this one.  Again, this picture is not a picture of the book that I am writing about.*
"Your senses of taste and smell work together."

The Senses
By: Veronica Ross
Copyright 2002
Thameside Press
Non Fiction (Informational)
School Age
32 Pages

What are your senses? What are they good for? Well you have five of them: touch, taste, sight, hear, and smell.  With these you can tell things about things.  Your brain takes in messages about these things and sorts through all the infromation to tell you what is going on around you.  When you look at something, you see it because light sent massages to your brain.  Sound travels though the air and into your ear and to your brain and it tells you what sound it is.  You need to take care of your eyes and ears so you dont lose the wonderful gift you have to see things and hear them.  Your tongue has many taste buds and different parts of the tongue taste different things.  That message is sent to your brain and you then know what you are tasting:  Bitter, soure, salt, or sweet.  When you smell things the air moves around  in your nose.  The message is sent to your brain to tell you what you are smelling.  Touching works the same as the others, you touch something and the skin sends a mesage to the brain.  With the senses not everything is good, they help you also feel pain.  If something it sharp or hot, your senses will tell you.  Keep your body healthy and also find out the other things that your body can do, and how they help you like your senses do, like your reflexes, balence and also learning new skills. 

I would recomend this book to any child.  It is intersting to learn about how things work. 

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book.

What's for lunch? Corn

"Eating corn will give you energy."

What's for lunch? Corn
By: Pam Robson
Copyright 1997
Children's Press
Non Fiction (Informational)
Younger School Age
31 Pages

Corn is a very yummy vegie (ok that is my thought .. I love corn).  Eatting corn can give you energy, and energy is good to be able to get though the day.  Corn comes from a plant called maize that can be very colorful and is used to make many other things other then just grow corn, like popcorn, cornflakes and animal food.  Maize grows best in the hot contries, but does grow all over the world.  Maize needs water and sunshine, just like all plants, to grow.  They are planted in the spring in time for the rainny season, so they have lots of water to grow.  There are female and male flowers on maize.  the wind blows the pollen from the male to fetilize the female.  The female collects the pollen.  The female has the seeds inside of it called kernels and they grow on a cob that is protected by the husks on the female.  When the kernels are yellow, this is the stage we eat it, corn on the cob.  When the kernels are taken off the cob, we call it corn.  Sometimes we take everything and send it thought mills where machines clean, dry, and grind it into animal food, glue, cornstarch, cornmeal, and even corn flakes. Many different products come from corn like: corn oil for cooking, dried up kenels make popcorn, cornchips, toco shells, and cornbread.  Maize is a wonderful plant and super yummy!

This book should be in a school so any kid who is intersted should read it.  I would recomend it to someone who wants to be a farmer or absolutly loves corn.

There was nothing that I could find that was wrong with this book.

I should of learned, I just read the strawberry book, and I am even more hungry now, BUT I did enjoy this book! I do love corn, and sadly that is something else we are out of in my apt.

Strawberry

"How do you like to eat strawberries?"

Strawberry
By: Jennifer Coldrey and George Bernard
Copyright 1988
A & C Black (Publishers) Limited
Non Fiction (Informational)
Mid Elemetary School Age
25 Pages

How are strawberries grown?  They grow in the summer time, and those that were planted before that "rested" durring the winter, their roots that are still there start to take in water from the soil.  Soon the plant starts to grow and flower buds grow on the plant.  The sun feeds the plant as well as water does.  insects visit the flowers, and when the pollen from the flowers are transfered by them, strawberries might start to grow.  Strawberries start to grow and they start off green.  As they grow the get bigger and bigger and start to turn red.  This means that the strawberry is ready to eat!  When they are not eaten, they are left to rot, but, when this happen the seeds from the strawberry can fall into the soil for another strawberry plant to start to grow.  Strawberry plants and even start the growth of another strawberry plant off of them.  The older plant fcollects food for this new plant.  Durrning autumn the plant starts growing and getting stronger and now it can grow on its own if it needed too.  Winter comes and the cycle repeats.

I would recomend this book to those student intersted in gardening.

There was nothing wrong with this book.

I have mixed feelings on this book.  It was really intersting, but I am really hungry and it probly was not the best book to read because I REALLY want some strawberries now, and sadly they are not in season.

Caring for Your DOG

"Dogs need care and companionship"

Caring for Your DOG
By: Jill Foran
Copyright
Weigl Pubishers Inc.
Non Fiction (Informational)
Upper Elementary School
32 Pages

A book full of fun and intersting informations about dogs.  Dogs have been loyal companions to humans for a long time.  People all over the world own dogs.  There are many different kind of breeds of dogs.  Each breed of dog is the way they are for different reasons, and also part of different groups.  Not all dogs are house dogs though, there are wind dogs.  Sometimes people ever train those dogs for certine jobs.  The average life span for a dog is 10 to 15 years and they can have three to six puppies a litter.  By the age of one year the dog will most likely be as big as it will get.  There are a few things you need to look into when choosing your pet.  Ask yourself these questions:  What do I have time for?  How big will the dog become?  How much will the dog cost?  Those are importent questions to know the answers to before you choose your dog, so that you will be able to take care ofit properly and give it lots of love.  Knowing how much your dog eats is importent.  Growing dongs need more then adult dogs and also making sure that you dont over feed your dog, because that can be bad for them.  The dog is built the way they are so they can do certiane things, from their nose to their toes everything is the way it is for a reason.  Do lots of things with your dog and take them in to the vet for checku ups when they need to so that your dog can stay happy and healthy and have a long happy life. 

I would recomend this book to have in a school classroom or libary so that a student who is intersted can read it.  Any child who wants to own a dog should read this book.

There is nothing wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book and learned a lot.  It also made me kind of sad though, started missing my dog that we had for a long time that we put to sleep my Sr. year of highschool (while I was on band trip, AND my parents didn't tell me, I never got to say good bye to her.)

Taking Care of Your Body

"Don't put anything inside your ears, not even cotton swabs."

Taking Care of Your Body
By: Sylvia Goulding
Copyright 2005
Rourke Publishing LLC
Non-fiction (informational)
Older Elementary aged kids
32 Pages

There are a lot of intersting and helpful facts on how to take care of your body in this book.  It tells you about the topic and then other really cool facts.  Did you know that your hair grows faster in the summer?!  Helpful things to try to keep that part of your body healthy on each page.  There are helpful hints about taking care of you toe nails and finger nails, yea, if you dont take care of them they can get infected and you can get sick.  Make sure to always dry between your toes.  Taking care of your skin is very importent, watch out for that sun, it can really hurt you, and it is different for kids of all different skin colors and types.  If you don't take care of your eyes you can end up with eye problems.  You an also damage your hearing if you don't take care of your ears.  How loud do you play your music?  How often and, when you do, how do you clean your ears?  Take care of you teeth, make sure to go to teh dentist for cleaning and also when you have a toothach, if you don't the pain can get worse and what to do to fix the probelm will be more then what it would of been.  You also need to take care of not only the outside of your body but the inside too, make sure you know what you are putting in your body, watch what you eat.  Stay active and have fun playing outside, exsersise CAN be fun!  Be careful though, avoid hurting yourself, and when you do make sure to take care of it.   Staying away for harmful things is importent, putting things like drugs and alcohol into your body is bad.  Staying healthy is a good way to avoid feeling stressed, but when you do start feeling that way there are many ways that you can turn that frown upside down.  When you do get sick and hurt, there are lots of people out there who can take care of you and help you get better.  When you do these things it will help you to live a long, happy, healthy life.

I would recomend this book to be in a classroom, even to be used as a lesson on taking care of yourself.  You could turn this book into a lesson and depending on what grade you are teaching you can even have students in groups and have each group a topic and they can teach the class.

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I found this book really intersting.  Taking care of your body is something importent.  I even relized somethings that maybe I should be doing that I am not doing.

Wolves

*I could not find a picture of the book so I just used a picture of a wolf*
"Again and again, a raven  dives at a poair of wolves.  it teases the wolves..."

Wolves
By: Victor Gentle and Janet Perry
Copyright 2002
First published in 2002 by Gareth Stevens Publishing
Non Fiction (Informational)
Elementary level students
24 Pages

In this book you will learn about wolves, they are pretty intersting.  Did you know that wolves and raven are in a way playmates?  Wolves love playing but there is a time and place for that.  They live in packs and all have rules and jobs that they are supposed to do.  Each pack has a leader, the alpha male and alpha female.  Only the alphas have pups.  Living in a pack is not always easy for pups and sometimes one will leave its pack, but that doesnt often happen, it is much safer to live in a pack.  Wolves live in places that are far away from people, in places that they can hunt and have enough food.  There is no record of wolves killing people in North America, and yet people still kill wolves for that reason.  The number of wolves are going down since the 1950's.  It is sad because there are things that people don't relize the wolves do. 

I would recomend this book to anyone interested in learning about wolves or writing a paper on them.  It would be a good book to have in the classroom or school to infor children who want to learn or who are interested.

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book.  I learned a lot and it was interesting.

The Great Gilly Hopkins

'Gilly was Crying now.  She couldn't help herself.  "Trotter, it's all wrong.  Nothing turned out the way it's supposed to." '

The Great Gilly Hopkins
By: Katherine Paterson
Copyright 1978
HarperCollins Children's Books
Fiction
5th grade to Middle School
178 Pages

Gilly is an 11 year old girl who refers to herslef and "The Great Gilly".  She is a foster child who has been passed around a lot, three times in the last year as the book starts taking place.  She likes to make trouble everywhere she goes.  This new house that she is going into, she didn't know, but would change her.  The book never comes out and says it but Gilly is pretty predjudus and this makes for trouble when Mrs. Trotter (who foster mother) is black, Mr. Randolph (the blind next door neighbor who is over at Trotter's house for dinner all the time) is black, and her teacher at her new school is also black.  Gilly wants more then anything for Courtney (her birth mother) to come and get her.  Gilly has made trouble everywhere she has been.  She would do amazing in school, borderline genious and then just stop all together and do nothing.  She can beat up six boys all by herself (and she knows it!), she could be called and evil genious.  Gilly used to be loved, even had someone she could call mama, but when they moved to FL, they left Gilly behind.  So Gilly doesnt trust or love or anything, she is The Great Gilly Hopkins and nobody gets the better or her.
So in this new foster house Gilly treated everyone badly, even her teacher at school, and even stole from Trotter and Mr. Randolph to set out her plan for running away to CA after getting a letter from her mother, she knew where she was.  Gilly wrote her mother a letter telling her about such a horrible place she was living in and she was gunna run away to CA.   Well when Gilly's plan fails, she got busted at the bus station and the cops were called, things changed for Gilly.  She started doing work for pay (to pay back for the money she stole and gave some to a partner in crime as payment for help)  and was to clean things and also help William Ernest with his reading.  W.E. is another one of Trotters foster kids that is slow.  Gilly helped him and they started to grow closer, no longer was W.E. afraid of Gilly, but you could tell that he loved her.  She also started teaching him how to fight and stand up for himself.  There was a time that Gilly was the only healthy person out of the four of them and she had to take care of everyone.  She was never told she had to do all she did, but she did it, this is where you see the change in Gilly.  It is at this time that Gilly's grandmother shows up.  Cortney had called her, after 13 years of not talking, and told her about the letter.  After seeing the place Gilly was living in she decied that she was going to take claim of Gilly.  Well the office let her grandmother take Gilly.  Gilly did not want to go.  After everything she was gunna fight to stay after fighting to leave.  Gilly wrote that letter, it is Gillys own fault.  So Gilly went to live with her grandma, and wrote to W.E. and lied so everyone would think she was happy.  For Christmas Courtney was coming to visit.  Gilly was excited, she would come and take her home with her.  Courtney was paid to come, she didn't want to be there and she didn't love Gilly like her post card had said.  Gilly was gunna run away and she called Trotter to tell her.  Trotter told her she couldn't.  They had a converstaion that kind of raps up the book, and you can see the change in Gilly more then ever there.  "I love you" Gilly told Trotter before she hung up the phone.  She went back to Courtney and her grandma and they left.  It wasnt anything that Gilly had thought or dreamed it would like but, Trotter would be proud.

I would NOT recomend this book to kids who aren't ready for this kind of book, with the language and the predjudus it just not be right for some students.  I think middle school age kids would be right for this book.

There really wasn't anything WRONG with this book, but in some peoples eyes there could of be.  So who ever reads this will just have to be careful and read with an open mind till they get to the end and see how much Gilly comes to love those that she hated at the start.

I had mixed feelings while reading this book, but it got to the point where I could not set the book down.  I really do like this book and hope that everyone else who reads it will grow along with Gilly as I did.  You really have to get into her head, and start to feel with her.  I cried at the end of the book.  Not only is Trotter proud of her, but I am too.

Stargirl

"It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against.   For ourselves."

Stargirl
By:Jerry Spinelli
Copyright 2000
Published by Dell Laurel-Leaf
Realistic Fiction
12-14 (Middle School Age)
183 Pages

Your typical stoy of boy meets girl, girl is a little crazy, boy still likes girl, girl likes boy, then ... well I guess it is not the typical story, but it is more real then those others. 
It is a school like all the other ones, everyone knows everyone, and everyone is excepted.  They were happy and fine in their conformity to eachother.  Then Stargirl starts school.  She is different, she is her own person, doesn't care what anyone thinks about her.  At first people think this is werid, but then, everyone starts being THEM and not hiding themselfs to fit in.  Well Stargirl took herself too far when she started cheering for all the teams and not just her team.  The shunning was back on.  Leo, our boy in this story, finally relized after getting over his confused feelings that he was in love with Stargirl and the whole school knew, she loved him and he loved her.  The shunning moved to Leo as well.  He told her she should change.  She then became like everyone else, but that didnt stop the shunning.  Leo started shunning Stargirl. 
No one seemed to get the message that Stargirl was teaching them.  She was her own person, did her own thing, wore her own clothes, and loved everyone.  Even the last time anyone saw her, she had been accepted again by all, (except Leo who didn't go to the dance) and Hillari Slaped her and said "Your ruin everything"  Stargirl kissed her on the cheek and left.  Leo, even after many years, still did not get the whole picture.  Why out of everyone did she love him?  What was it about her?  What made her so different?  But he never forgot her, never.

I would recomend this book to anyone!! I have already told my roommates they have to read this book.  I might (depending on what grade I teach) will read it to my class.  It is such a great book!

There is nothing wrong with this book, well except in my opinion the ending.  I wanted her to come back and for everyone to be themselfs and her and Leo to be happy, and him FINALLY excepting her for her and not being ashamed of her.  Other then that, it is a great book and should be read by EVERYONE!!

Well if you can't tell yet, I LOVED THIS BOOK!!  It made me think of me back in the day, like yesterday.  There are so many times I have changed me to fit in.  Anyone can relate to this book.  Just like Stargirl, even right now  in my life, I am not happy not being me.  Changing for friends, for  church leaders, for boys, to be the person I want that person to see.  I just want to be me, like Stargirl.

Plantzilla

"When you give a living thing love, you never know where wit will lead."

Plantzilla
By: Jerdine Nolen
Copyright 2002
Harcourt Books
Picture Books
Older School Aged Kids
29 Pages

Mortimer Henryson wants to bring home a plant over summer vactaion and gets the permission to.  The name of this plant is Plantzilla, he wanted more then anything to take this plant home.  Thoughout the story Mortimer writes his teacher along with his parents everyonce in a while and the teach a few times.  The plant grows and starts to eat REAL food, loves meat.  Plantzilla starts to act alive and is getting bigger and bigger.  The parents start to think Plaztzilla is not the best thing for their son, that he should be playing but Mortimer wants to spend all his time with Plantzilla.  Plantzilla starts taking over the house and even ate the dog! The parents do not like the plantand Mortimer pleas with his teacher to write them and explaine what is going on to his parents.  The plant has gained human charictoristics, and even shows caring for the family, withthis the mother starts changing her mind about things. The teacher returns home from his vaction and finds out that they have been writing letters, he is more then willing to pick up Plantzilla from them.  The mother invites the garden club to see Plantzilla and it also starts blooming.  Mortimer wants to adopt the plant and the teacher and parents allow it.

I would recomend this book to students who love plants.

There was not anything wrong with this book.

I did not like this book.  I do not know what I would do to change it or anything, I just simply did not enjoy this book at all. 

Shelly

"He's fine..wait and see."

Shelly
By: Margie Palatini
Copyright 2006
Dutton Children's Books
School Aged Kids
Picture Book
39 Pages

3 out of the 4 eggs hatched, but Shelly was not ready too.  His three sisters were ready but he was not. His sisters wanted him to be ready, but it did not matter to him.  Their parents told them it was fine, he was just taking his time, they just had to wait.  The girls; however, were impatent.  They went to the park and had fun, but Shelly didn't have an easy time doing those things, one sister finally decied that he wasn't ready, not ready like her at all. Back at home they did some painting.  Shelly again had a hard time, another sister decied that he wasn't ready, not ready like her.  The last sister wanted to dance with Shelly but it wasn't easy for him, she also decied that he wasnt ready.  All of the girls left and it was quiet, Shelly knew it was his time.  He buolt a fort, he palyed cards with his bunny, he did a puzzle, and so many things including a sign for his door that said NO SISTER ALLOWED.  He had a busy day and when the girls came home he put the top of his shell back on and the girls saw him and agreed that he was still not ready.  They wanted him to be ready, so he told the Wednesday and the girls were so excited!  The girls however, didn't ask which wednesday. 

I would recomend this book to any child.  It is a cute little book.

I do not think anything is wrong with this book.

I loved this book.  It was a cute little story.

Cinderlily

"The faded, unforgettable charm of a once familiar bloom."

Cinderlily
By: David Ellwand AND Christine Tagg
Copyright 2003
Candlewick Press
School Age Kids
Fairy Tale
23 Pages

Cinderlily wants to go to the Royal Autum Ball.  She is a beautiful lily but she is shy.  She is forced to help her sisters get ready for the Sultan's Ball and help the stand out.  Her sisters told her she was not allowed to go to the ball, she had to stay home while they got to go out and have fun.  As Cinderlily cleans she dreams nad strats dancing around with her broom.  Soon a fairy is hovering over her.  Cinderlily is told that she can be transformed adn go to the ball but at midnight the magic will be over.  Cinderlily's pettles were no longer wilted but beautiful and white.  and golden carrige comes up being pulled by six butterflies.  At the ball all the flowers are trying to impress the Sultan.  The fairy watching closly casts a spell so that he will meet Cinderlily.  They dance and have fun until the clock strikes midnight and she must run off.  He pettles wilting again as she runs off, one of her pettles falls off.  The Sultan searchs all the gardens far and wide looking for the beautiful flower.  He takes the pettle to see if it fits anyone, but the pettle fits none.  THen he sees her and he trys the pettle with her and it fits and she blooms again. And they get married.

The Kangaroo

The Kangaroo
By: Diana Noonan
Copyright
Chelsea Clubhouse
Older School Age Kids
Non Fiction
32 Pages

The kangaroo has it's own special life cycle.  They are mamals, but it is an unusal one becuase it is also a memeber of the marsupial family.  The kangroo keeps their young in a puch until it is ready to be out on its own.  They live in mobs and are noctural feeders, so they eat at night or in the early morning when the weather is cool.  Durring those hot sunny days they take their naps in the shade or dig holes to stay cool.  Male kangaroo will fight to see who can court the famale.  When a newborn is born it staying in the pouch, this tiny thing has to crawl into its mothers pouch with no help.  There it will feed and grow.  The mother can seal her pouch to protect the baby.  After 4 months the newborn is now called a joey and at 5 months it can leave the mothers pouch, and at 20 months it is free to be on its own.  There is so much more information on Kangaroos too.

This book is good to have in a classroom, but it is more for the older school kids because it has a lot of information on breeding and things that younger kids might not understand.

I don't think there is anything wrong with this book.

I learned a lot from this book.  I enojyed it.

Ladybugs

"Red, fiery, and bright"

Ladybugs
By Mia Posada
Copyright 2002
Carolrhoda Books, Inc
School Aged Kids
Non Fiction
28 Pages

Lady bugs are littel round beetles with read coats and black spots, the like to crawls through graden, trees and flowers.  Lady bugs are harmless, they just crawls around looking for tiny green insects call aphids- that is what they eat.  Lady bugs lay their eggs on a leaf in the shade, the start off yellow and turn white after five days.  The things that hatch out of the eggs are not lady bug look alikes, but larva and they spend their days searching for food.  The larva that to shead their skin so they can keep growing.  When the larva is almost grown it attaches itself to something and molts one last tme and has bevome a pupa (kinda like a caterpillars cacoon. it starts rounding out and after five days it comes out of its shell and looks like a lady but, just discolored.  Soon the red starts coming in and the spots start to aper.  Soon the lady bug learns to fly, and it is free.  There is also so much more information on ladybugs.

This book is a good book to have in a classroom or also at home.  It is more in story form for kids to enjoy as a story and not just a lot of information. 

I dont think there is anything wrong with this books

I enjoyed this book, I learned so much about lady bugs, I liked it better then the two books before this because it was more in story for with an information thing at the end so I was able to read and learn rather then have a lot of information thrown at me, so this would even be better for younger kids then the other books.

The Beautiful Butterfly Book

"Many butterflies make extaordinary voyages, travelling in huge clouds of fluttering wings."

The Beautiful Butterfly Book
By Sue Unstead
Copyright 2005
An imprint of Pinwheel Ltd. Winchester House
School aged kids
Non Fiction
18 Pages

This book teaches about butterflys.  What are the differences between butterflies and moths?  Most people confuse butterflies and moths, but really they are very different. What is the process from caterpillar to butterfly?  From egg to caterpillar to cucoon to butterfly they go through an amazing metamorphosis. There are many different butterflies so there must also be many different caterpillars too.  butterflies have such beautifuly colored winds and that is one way you can tell the difference between all the butterflies.  What are some of the butterflies?  Where did they orginanate from?  You can attract butterflies to your guarden, some butterflies like certin types of flowers. 

This would be a wonderful book to have in the classroom, or even at home for kids to learn more about butterflies. 

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book, I didnt know that there was so much that I didnt know about butterflies and there was some really cool information in it.  I even kind of came up with some fun ideas for learning about butterflies and activities a class could do.

Animals of the Cold

"To get enouigh food, polar animals need the right tools.  Sharp earls, claws and teeth all help."

Animals of the Cold
By Valerie Videau
Copyright 2003
Firefly Books
Young School Aged Kids
Non Fiction
22 pages

How do animals live in the cold weather?  Why are some animals the way they are? Why do some animals do certine things?  In this book with little pop-ups and open the flaps the questions are answered.  With the temperature being about -60 degrees in the coldest places in the world there are animals that live there.  At the poles of the world you dont have day and night, you have light for 6 months and dark for 6 months.  The animals that live in the places are built to live in this weather.  Some animals have super think fur and some have layers of fat, or they have both.  There are some animals that change their color depending on what seson it is to help them escape from their enemies.  The animals have things that help them get around in the cold and ice.

I would recomend teachers to have this book in their class room for kids to read durring reading time, or even parents to read to their kids, the parents can read and the kids can fip and pull the tabs and they can learn together.

I dont thing that anything is wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book, I even learned a few new things reading it.  And with the pulling and flipping tabs and things it even made learning fun!

Snow

"And the snow, while it is here, reminds is of this: nothing lasts forever except memories."

Snow
By: Cynthia Rylant
Copyright 2008
Harcourt, Inc.
Picture Book
School Age Kids
29 Pages

What type of snow is the best?  The snow that comes softly in the night, brings you peace.  There is that snow that comes when you are somewhere you dont want to be, it comes in fat flakes.  This snow sbrings happyness.  Some snow only falls lightly and some snow falls heavey.  Chindren love snow, they love to play and catch snowfalkes on their tongues.  Sleading, snow angles, snowmen, there are so many things to do in the snow.  But the snow reminds us, nothing lasts forever.  Snow comes and goes and reminds us how beautiful the world is.  The snow falls, and the wold sleeps and is just waiting.  The snow falls, the we watch it fall.

I would recomend this book to parents to read to their kids!

There wasnt anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book, it helped remind me how great snow really is, since I am stuck living in it for so long I forget about its true beauty.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

"Whee! said D to EFG, I'll beat you to the top of the coconut tree."

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
By: Bill Martin Jr.
Copyright 1989
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Picture Book
Young Readers
30 Pages

All the little letters of the alphabet are trying to climb up the coconut tree.  Once all the letters get to the top, CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM!!  There was not enought room.  So all the big letters come to comfert the little ones, and soon enough they are going back up the coconut tree.  All the little letters, patched up and sore trying to make their way up the coconut tree.  As the sun sets, they are up the tree.  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! There's a full moon.  Little a gets out of bed and says "Dare double dare, you can't catch me.  I'll beat you to the top of the coconut tree"
Chicka Chicka BOOM! BOOM!

This is a cute little book that I think parents should read to their kids and they both can enjoy.

I dont think that there is anything wrong with this book

This book was one of my favorite books growing up and still is.

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

"lift...pull...flop"

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
By: Shel Silverstein
Copyright 1981
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Picture Book
Children of all ages
48 pages


The missing piece sat alone, waiting for someone to take it somewhere.  Many came along, but nothing seemed to fit or be excatly what the missing piece wanted/needed, nothing seemed to be the right thing.  There were many different good things, but there was something wrong that went along with them.  The missing piece tried all that it could do to get other to notice it.  Nothing seemed to work.  FINALY the missing piece found where it it!! They were happy!! Then something happened, the missing piece started GROWING!! Soon it did not fit anymore, and so it was left alone again.  One day something different came along,The Big O, this didnt need a missing piece because it was whole, but the missing piece wanted to be apart of it.  It was told that they could not roll together, but maybe it could roll by itself.  The missing piece did not understand, it cannot roll.  So as the Big O rolled off it told the missing piece the it needed to try, maybe its corners would wear off.  The missing piece just sat there.  Then, it tired.  It fliped, it pulled, and then it flopped.  Soon after a while of that the corners started to wear down!  The shape started to change.  It soon started bumping...bouncing...ROLLING!  It did not care where it was going only that it was rolling.  It rolled along, met up with the Big O and they rolled off together.

I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone, no matter how old you are everyone should read this book.

There was nothing wrong with this book

I love this book.  It is one of my favorites and has such an amazing message and anyone can relate to this book in many different ways. 

The Cinder-Eyed Cats

"Their coal-fired eyes ablaze"

The Cinder-Eyed Cats
By Eric Rohmann
Copyright 1997
Published by Dragonfly Books
Young Children
Picture Book
32 Pages

On a far away island, things happen.  It is like magic when the sun goes down.  The cinder-eyed cats come out, while all the world is sleeping, they play.  The fish come out of the water and spin in circles around your head.  The moon, the stars, the sand, the wind, and everything in grip of earth and the sea the creatures come out and play.  The sun comes up and everyone returns to the sea.  No more playing, or dancing on the shore, until the twighlight comes again. 

I would recommend this book to parents to read to their kids.  It is a great bed time story to get the immagination going.

I couldnt find anything wrong with this book.

I thought this was a nice book, I loved the pictures, they were amazing!

Tracy's Mess

"But here's a warning - take a broom if you ever go inside her room"

Tracy's Mess
By Elise Petersen
Copyright 1996
Published by Whispering Coyote Press
School Aged Kids
Picture Book
22 Pages

Looking at Tracy you would never guess the mess this girl could make.  In her room, things all over the place!  Food in her bed, toys all over, you can't even find a floor.  Her clothes are all over and nothing is in its place.  Then one day, her mother told her she had to clean her room, she had no choice.  She tired to shove everything under her bed, great idea she thought.  After everything was under there, she found her bed way to high, her blankets touched the celing light.  Tracy had to clean under her bed and put it all away.  Now her bedroom was clean, the only thing anyone could see was the floor.  ...the only thing was, no can open the closet door.

I would recomend this book to anyone.  It is way cute.

I don't think there is anything wrong with this book. 

I like this book, it reminds me of me.

When I was King

"I was the star, the prize, the king ... But you ruined everything"

When I was King

By: Linda Ashman

Copyright 2008

HarperCollins Children's Books

Picture Book

School Aged Kids

35 Pages

This little boy once was an only child, and he used to rule it all, then along came his little brother and ruined everything.  He used to have all the attention, and now everyone only sees the baby.  He used to rule, everything was his, but now, nothing is.  All this little baby does is ruin everything of his and it is not fair!!  His mother told him about all that he could do now, he is not a baby, he can do so much, with no help at all.  He does so much and all the baby does is sleep.  He gets to eat yummy things, baby has to eat smashed up peas.  He rilizes baby isnt all that bad.  So he used to be king and didn't want change, but now, he can share is thrown with baby.

I recomend this book to anyone. 

I didn't see anything wrong with it.

This book was way cute!!

Where the Giant Sleeps

"to make you a quilt of moons and stars to wrap you in ... tonight."

Where the Giant Sleeps
By:Mem Fox
Copyright 2007
Horcourt, Inc.
Picture Book
Young Children
24 pages

It goes though where people sleep.  Like the giant, faires, pirate,wizard, whitchs, goblin, pixies, all the seven dwarfs, the dragon and the ogre.  But the elves are wide awake! Making you a blaket of moons and stars to wrap you in. 

I would recommend this book for a parent to read to their child.  This book is perfect and full of immagination, and perfect to help a child to sleep and have wonderful dreams.

I dont think that there is anything wrong with this book. 

I loved this book.  The pictures really did open up my mind and i got lost in them.

Morning Has Broken

"Sweet the rain's new fall sunlit from heaven"

Morning Has Broken

By: Eleanor Farjeon

Copyright 1996

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Young Children

Picture Book

27 Pages

This words for this book are taken from a song that praise the beauty of the morning.  It tells about all the things in the morning.  The beauty of the morning is shown through the pictures.  It is to remind us what the world holds for us and the wonders and magic of the morning. 

I would recommned this book to parents to read to their kids.  It is full of beautfiul pictures and little words.  A warm story that can be shared with the family.

I don't think there is anything wrong with this book, though unless your not religious.

I can't say much about the book it self, but for the pictures, I loved them!

The Chicken of the Family

"Oh, how wonderful to be a chicken after all."

The Chicken of the Family
By: Mary Amato
Copyright 2008
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Picture Book
Ages
30 pages

Henrietta had two big sisters so were not very nice to her.  They liked to scare her, and they called her a chicken.  They called her a REAL chicken, and they did all they could to convince her.  She didn't want to believe that all these things that her sisters were saying were true.  But the more they kept telling her, the more worried she was.  She kept telling herself that she was not a chicken.  When she woke up the next morning she was happy to see that she was perfectly normal, except, she found an egg in her bed and feathers on the floor.  She was a chicken.  She decied that she had to find her real family, so she snuck out of the house and walked down the road to the farm.  She found the chicken and joinded them and did everything they were doing.  Her two sisters found her with the chickens and told her that she needed to come home, they were in trouble for telling her that she was a chicken.  They tried to tell her that she was not a chicken, but she kept saying she was, she would not believe them that she was not a chicken.  Everything they said she would not listion to them, even the famer said that he would like to be a chicken, and he let her stay with the chickens.  One of the sisters didnt want to go home because she was afraid of the parents, and the older sister called her a chicken, so she rode off on her bike.  The other sister joined Henrietta with the chickens.  They played follow the leader with the chickens and everyone in the meddow joined in.  It was wonderful to be a chicken.

I would recommend this story to anyone, it was cute!

I don't think anything is wrong with this book.

I enjoyed this book.  It was way cute and reminded me of how my brothers treated me, I just wish I had done what she did in this story.

GroundHog Gets a Say

"Yesterday I was BIG news.  A star; king of the mound! Everyone wanted my weather report.  Today...nothing"

GroundHog Gets a Say
As told by: Pamela Curtis Swallow
Copyright 2005
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Picture Book
Age 4-10
32 Pages

Poor GroundHog, he only has a day and wishes there was more, like February should be Groundhog Appreciation Month.  He has a little goundhog that looks up to him and a crow and a squirl that just cannot stand him.  Groundhog talks about all the things that he can do and what makes him so important and special.  Groundhogs are pretty amazing animals, at least groundhog wants everyone to know that, he is amazing.  He is related to the squirl, and squirl does not like that fact.  People even study groundhogs, everyone loves groundhogs, though squirl and crow don't think so.  There is just about nothing a groundhog can't do, well they aren't that fast.  They can live anywhere and eat anything.  They hibernate too, eat lots of food and then burrow away for the winter.  Goundhogs are studied to see if humans can hibernate as they do, groundhogs help with science.  They all decied that everyone should know about this plan, and they took all the information, and made this book. 

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about animals.

There isn't anything wrong witht his book that I can find.

I thought this book was cute, and I even learned a few things from it.

The Important Book

"But the important thing about the sky is that it is always there."

The Importan Book
By: Margaret Wise Brown
Copyright 1994 by Margaret Wise Brown
Printed in the U.S.A.
Picture Book
Younger Kids
20 Pages

Spoons are important.  Why?  You eat with it.  The important thing about a Dasiy is that it is white.  There are lots of things about it, but that is what is most important.  Grass has that sweet grassy smell, but that is not what is most important about it, what is important about grass is that it is green.  Snow is a wonderful beautiful, wonderful sight, but it is white, and that is what is important.  Apples are yummy and so good, the juice is the best part, but it being red, that is what is important about an apple.  The wind is something you can't see unless you see what it is moving, but that is not the important thing about the wind, reallu it is that the wind blows.  The sky holds the clouds and is full of air, but what is important about the sky is that it is always there.  Shoes, they are important, you use them to walk and keep your feet warm, but they are important that you put your foot in them.  There is something important about you.  There is so much about you, but what is important about you: is that you are you. 

I think this is a good book for parents to read with their kids.  It has a sweet message for little kids to learn.

I don't think that there is anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed the book.  It was a super easy read, but it was cute and I loved the message of the book.

Diary of a Spider

"Without spiders, insects could take over the world."

Diary of a Spider
By Doreen Cronin
Copyright by Doreen Cornin
HarperCollins Children's Books
Picture Book
Ages: 4-8
32 Pages

This is the Diary of a Spider and everyday is a new day.  It takes you though things that happen in the spiders life.  Spider's best friend is a fly, things are different now then they used to be.  In gym class they learn how to catch wind so they can travel to far away places and just like us, sometimes they have to make flash cards to help learn.  There are somethings that we do for fun that dont work for spiders, but they have their own way of fun.  They learn that they need to watch out for vacuums "stop, drop, and run".  Practice makes perfect, so its good to practice things many times, so you wont get eaten by the vacuum.  Spiders stick up for their friends when other insects hurt their feelings.  Sometimes it is hard having a fly for a best friend and having her come over to play, she gets stuck in the web.  It comes to a time in every spiders life when they can know the secerit to a long life, don't fall asleep in a shoe.  Everyone has fears, some things that are afraid of spiders are: Parents of flys that are best friends with spiders, Tiny bugs, and people..using water foutins at the park.  Spiders have fears too, daddy long legs (they are HUGE)  vacuums, and people with big feet.  Not all spiders bite and everyone can get along with them if they just give them a chance. 

I would recommend this book to anyone.  This is a cute book and it cna help teach how to keep a diary and also get a look into a spiders life.

There isn't anything wrong with this book.  I have a huge fear of spiders and am the biggest arachnophobe that you will ever meet and I still read this book, but if you can't even take pictures of spiders, this book would not be fore you.

I thought this was a way cute book.  It teaches a few different things and is fun and enjoyable.  I read it to my roommates and we all had a good laugh, at how cute it is. 

Spike in Trouble

"I'm sorry but unless you can behave you will have to go home"

Spike in Trouble
by Paulette Bogan
Copyright 2003 by Paulette Bogan
Published G.P. Putnam's Sons
Picture Book
Age: Younger Kids
27 pages

There is a dog named Spike.  There are a bunch of things that go wrong, and Spike kept getting blamed for them.  Taking stakes off the BBQ, knocking over trash cans, chewing up shoes, and digging in the garden.  Spike didn't do these things and he was so confused why everyone was mad at him.  They had to take him to obedience school.  Sipke liked it there he got to do a bunch of fun things and he graduated at the top of his class.  So school was over, but the trouble back home was not over. Clothes all over the year and missing newspaper. So Spike decied that he would go find out what was going on.  When Spike found out who it was it was one of his friends from obediance school and felt bad but his master sent the little dog home and was happy that it wasn't Spike who was doing all the stuff.  Spike wanted the little dog to come back, and she did, and brought back the newspaper. 

This is a cute little story good for little kids that parents can read to their kids

I don't think there is anything wrong with this, infact it has a good lesson behind the story.

I liked this book, it was really cute!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

"Now her wasn't hungry any more - and he wasn't a little caterpillar any more.  He was a big, fat caterpillar."

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By Eric Carle
Copyright 1969 and 1969 by Eric Carel
Published by Philomel Books
Picture Book
Age Level: yong child
18 pages

One sunny sunday morning a little caterpillar was born and he was HUNGRY. He searched all over for food.  each day he ate through something new and a new number of it.  So monday was one apple  Tuesday was two pears, Wednesday: three plums, Thursday: four strawbarries, Friday: five oranges.  After each day he was still hungry! On Saturday this very hungry caterpuillar ate though a lot of food.  He ate a piece of chocolate cake, icecream, a pickle, a slice of cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piee or cherry pie, on sausage, one cupcake and a slice of watermelon.  Now this caterpillar was a sick caterpillar.  Now it was sunday again and all he ate through was one nice green leaf.  He felt better after eating that and was no longer a little caterpillar but a BIG one.  So he built a cocoon around himself and stayed in there for a little over two weeks then nibbled his way out.  He was no longer a catterpillar but ad beautiful butterfly. 

This book is good for younger kids to understand caterpillars but at the same time it is funny becuase caterpillars dont eat some of those things.  I can't forget about Eric Carle's pictures in the book, they are amazing.  I would recomend this book for paretns to read with their kids.

I don't think that there is anything wrong with this book, just as long as kids understand that they cannot feed caterpillars icecream and things like that.

I love this book.  It was one of those books that I grew up with. 

Oh the Places You'll Go!

"You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can stear yourself any direction you choose.  You're on your own.  and you know what you know.  And YOU are the [one] who'll decide where to go."

Oh the Places You'll Go!
By: Dr. Seuss
Copy right 1990 by Dr. Seuss Enterpries, L.P.
Published in the Untied States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Picture Book, Rhyme
44 pages
Dr. Seuss books are for people of any age

Congratulations! Today is your day.  This story takes you on the trip through life.  You're off to to Great Places! You're off and away!  You are taught that you are the only person who can choose were to go, what you will be doing in life.  As you go through life you will be watching with care and sometimes you will choose to go somewhere and sometimes you wont.  With your head full of brains and you shoes full of feet you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.  We will travel many places, out in the world.  Your life will start to come together, you will start to make who you are and we are reminded not to worry,  And when things start to happen...You'll start to happening too.  Life will take us to many great hights, we will succeed and grow and join in with many people with the same asperations.  Just keep going, to stop, doing slow down, life is so great we will just jump in and go with it.  Sometimes we will be on top, the best of the best and sometimes we wont. sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-up can happy to you.  Not all the time will life the the little perfect thing we hope and dream it to be.  Life wont always be happy and bright, but sometimes dark and scary.  And when you're in a slump, you not in for much fun.  Un-slumping yourslef is not easily done.  But it is life.  We will come to point in life were we dont know what is going on, and we have no idea where we are or why.  We have no clue what to do.  It will be easy to lose faith and hope in yourself.  It's not simple, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up [their] mind.  Sometimes there isnt much going on in life, and as you keep working there wont be to much moving around the waiting place.  We wont be alone though.  It is life, everyone gets to that point, but we have to pushing though and remember, NO! That's not for you!  Bright places, happy times is where we will move our lives too.  Get back up out of the dark and the dirt.  Nothing is ever to hard as long as we believe, so after those hard times, we will make it though and we will stand tall.  We can do anything with our lives, we can be anything we want to be.  But to always remeber that things wont always work out the way that we want them too.  Sometimes we will be alone and have to push though that too.  Wheater you like it of not, Alone will be something you'll be doing quite a lot.  There will be times we will be scared so bad, and we wont want to keep pressing on.  We will pass though many things that make us want to give up.  We will always have bad/hard times, there is always going to dark with light, and we wont just have one hard time, we will have many, we just always have to remember how to get back to the light.  If we always remember who we are and that we can do anything, that we don't get lost, and if we do we always find out way back will [we] succeed? Yes! [We] willm indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way.

I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone.  This book is a book that I read when I am feeling down, a book that reminds me of how life is, and it is a good book for anyone who may start to doubt themselfs or people looking for hope.

There are not any issues I can find in this book.

This is my favorite book.  I love it.  I read it and qoute it all the time.  I will raise my kids on this book.  The vaules it teachs, and the sybolism of life and the wonderful pictures, makes this book the top of the tops.  Dr. Seuss is also my hero.  His books I think are the best books for children to read, and for adults to read too, becuase as you get older you can read inbetween the lines of what was writen.  For kids it is just a book and they may or may not get the whole message of the story, but as adults we can read it and be reminded that we can do anything.