Dinosaur Cove, Attack of the Tyrannosaurus

Dinosaur Cove is an adventure book written by Rex Stone about two boys who meet each other on the beach at Dinosaur Cove. Jamie wants to be a scientist and is equipped with useful tools to learn more about fossils, rocks, and plants. Tom is an explorer, he wants to be a wildlife presenter.

Tom has somewhere fun to show Jamie. So the newly acquainted friends rush down the beach together to the "smugglers cave". The boys start to explore the cave and find a secret entrance. What they find is everything they were looking for. Dinosaurs, fossils, old plants and lots of action! The boys are having a lot of fun looking throughout the new world the discovered until they come face to face with a T-Rex. How could they possibly get away?

This short chapter book would be for the students who likes adventure and action. It is an easy read and has illustrations that follow the book as well. I enjoyed the book and the adventure that it had to offer. It would leave a young reader in suspense of what will happen next. I would recommend this book to young readers who are interested in action and adventure.

Knuffle Bunny

Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems is a book about a baby named Trixie. Trixie had a special friend and this friend was knuffle bunny. Well one day Trixie goes with her dad on a trip to the laundromat, they go down the block, through the park, by the school and into the laundromat. Trixie helped her father with the laundry and she gets to put the money in the laundry machine. When Trixie and her father leave the laundromat Trixie starts to babble to her father about something. What was she wanting?

Knuffle Bunny is a good book. The best part of it is the pictures. The pictures are natural black and white pictures with colored cartoons. The pictures really stick out and create the book. I think that young readers would really enjoy this book. Its an adventure book about Trixie that is easy to read, and has really engaging photos. This book would work as a read aloud for students to enjoy to be able to pass a couple minutes at the end of the day. Children would be able to relate to the book about Trixie if they have young siblings as well.

This is the Feast

This is the Feast is a book about the first Thanksgiving. It starts with the journey of the first pilgrims to America. How they built their homes and how they learned from the Indians to plant and harvest food. The Indians helped them grow a wide variety of crops. It also informed the reader of disease that the pilgrims fought off  which decimated the Indian population. The Indians were cautious of the pilgrims but greeted them with care. How long did the first Thansgiving last? Were the Indians invited to join?

This book was a good rhyming book about Thanksgiving and teaches the reader some great information. The pictures in the book fit very well with the text to help tell the story. This book could be read to younger classes that are learning about Thanksgiving in school. Students would like to learn from this book and see the pictures that showed the process to the first Thanksgiving.

Puppy Power

Puppy Power is a book about a little girl named Fran. Fran is a 3rd grade trouble maker. She has a hard time being nice to others and she loves to be competitive, and win. In the book Fran wants to become the princess in the upcoming play, but she hears her teacher and another teacher talking about her when she was on timeout. Fran listens in and hears that she is talented and bright but that her rude behavior just isnt helping her. Fran learns from this and starts to become a better person. At home Fran is also trying to teach her puppy how to behave. Fran learns from this as well and becomes good at being a teacher for her dog and trains him so that her mother doesnt want to get rid of him. So does Fran do a good enough job to keep her dog Hercules? What about becoming a princess, will she be able to change?
I enjoyed this book, it was humorous and easy to read. The pictures helped to understand the text and gave a good visual. I thought that it taught a good lesson to Fran about her attitude and for her to get what she wanted she needed to learn to behave and undersatnd others. This could be a good book to read to a 2nd or 3rd grade class. Individual students older than this would maybe like to read it as well. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read it! The book was written by Judy Cox.

Horrible Harry and the Dungeon

Horrible Harry and the Dungeon is a book about a boy named Harry and his friend Doug. Doug is the main character of this book and Harry is his best friend. In the book it is the end of the school year and the principal announces that behavior is getting bad and that students who don't cooperate and follow rules will have to go to the suspension room which is a basement room with concrete walls and no windows, Harry and Doug refer to it as the dungeon. The teacher that will be in the suspension room is a new teacher named Mr. Skooghammer. He is a hairy, tall man with a piercing on his eyebrow. The students worry about him and his black bag that he carries. Harry wants so badly to figure out what is inside the bag so he follows the teacher into the restroom and sticks his hand slowly into the bag and gets poked and starts to bleed, he runs away quickly when Mr Skooghammer opens the stall door. Harry devises a plan to find out what is inside the bag after he and Doug decide it must be a medieval weapon, since its sharp and bulging, like a mace! But how do Doug and Harry discover what is inside that bag? Or do they?

This book is a fun and interesting book and I would recommend it for anyone to read to their students or children. It was an easy book to read, the font was fairly large and there were pictures to go along with the text as well. It wasn't a very long book which would be good for beginning chapter book readers, and it keeps you wondering what will happen next to Harry. I think that boys would enjoy this book most since its about getting into trouble and trying to be sneaky to find out something mysterious.

Corduroy Goes to the Fire Station

This book is about Corduroy the bear and his class at school taking a trip to the fire station. The book is a very imformative book and teaches the reader about what each truck does and what to do if you find matches or catch on fire, they also learn about some of the gear that fireman wear. While learning about some of the gear and information the fireman teach them they practice techniques such as stop drop and roll and they also try on and play around with the gear. At the end of the day there is a surprise in store for Corduroys class. Corduroy Goes to the Fire Station is a good book for young students to inform them about fireman and what they do, and to also  teach them what to do if they happen to find matches or catch on fire. The book has great pictures that follow along with the text and each picture has between 2 and 4 pop-up's to see what is kept inside fire truck cabinets or inside doors through the fire house and sometimes under the pop-up's you'll find some of Corduroys classmates or a certain fire house mascot!

One Bear Lost

One Bear Lost is a book about a bear who finds himself lost and alone after being with 10 bears in the beginning. The book begins with 10 bears, and as each page is turned there is one less bear because something happens to them. The bears come back but how and where did the lonely bear get lost? I feel that this book's pictures are by far the best part of the book. The pages look like real paintings on canvas, and the detail in each picture is just amazing. The story line of the book itself is good as well and uses numbers on every page which makes it a good concept book as well for students using numbers 1-10. I think that many young students would enjoy the book for its vibrant pictures and fun story. One Bear Lost is a book that I had never heard of but am defintlay glad I checked it out!

Lenny's Lost Spots

Lenny's Lost Spots is a rhyming book about a lady bug who some how loses his spots. Lenny looks near, and Lenny looks far. Lenny looked twice and thought his spots were on a dice. Lenny doesnt understand where his spots went but eventually finds them. This book is a good book for emergent readers to read and listen to for rhyming words throughout the pages. The book does well with incorporating numbers as well. I liked this book, it gives colorful pictures to follow along with and is fun to look at every page and try to help Lenny investigate and discover his spots.

Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen

Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen, is a book about listening written by Howard Binkow. Binkow wrote the book about himself when he was young, because he didn't listen well and he wanted to teach a lesson to young students about how to listen.

The book about Howard, the bunny, is a fun book to read. It shows how Howard's always gets into trouble when he doesn't listen, and how bad things can happen to a person, or bunny, when they don't listen. Something good happens to Howard in the end of the book, but what is it?

This would be a great book to read to a young class to teach them about listening, or to remind them if they haven't been listening so well. I think that kids would enjoy the book because its about a funny bunny. The pictures of the book show humor, great color, and a great sense of the story.

Days With Frog and Toad

Days With Frog and Toad is a very easy chapter book to read. Any child looking to read their first chapter book should try Days With Frog and Toad. It has a few pictures to relate with the text, and the text is in bigger font and easy to read. The chapters are rather short, there are 5 of them in the 65 page book.

Days With Frog and Toad highlight 5 days that Frog and Toad spend with each other. The days are about activities they do or problems they run in to that need solved. Frog and Toad are fun characters and really show what friendship is about. Frog seems to be very logical and helps Toad out quite often. Toad seems like hes more laid back and needs encouragement to get going. I really enjoyed the book and would like to find more of the Frog and Toad books to read. I vaguely remember reading them when I was young, it would be nice to see them all again!

Animalia

Animalia is a really fun book to read. It goes through the whole alphabet in an interesting format. "An Armoured Armadillo Avoiding An Angry Alligator" and "Beautiful BLUE BUTTERFLIES basking by a BABBLING BROOK", are the first two pages of Animalia. The entire alphabet is represented in this format and some of the pages are just amazing. The pictures in the book are so detailed and have so much to look at, the pictures of each page also relate to the letter of that page as well. For instance on the G page there are gorillas, goats, giraffes, guitars, etc. The book also has a search for a kid, who I believe is the author. It's a lot of fun to look through the pages of the book for the kid and be able to see all the interesting objects on each page.

This book can be used for all ages, young children will have a really hard time understanding the vocabulary on some of the pages because I know that I did. "Victor V. Vulture the Vaudeville Ventriloquist-Versatile Virtuoso of Vociferous Verbosity-Vexatiously Vocalizing at the Valhalla Variety Venue" is an example of one of those pages. Just because children may not be able to read it doesn't mean they cant see all of the pictures that start with the letters related to the page, or can't just look through each page and recognize letter sequence. This book is really fun and very interesting to look at, I would recommend that everyone find this book!

The Boy Of The Three Year Nap

The Boy of the Three Year Nap was a very detailed book to read. The boy, Taro, was a lazy young man who liked to do nothing but sleep and eat. One day he came up with a plan, and he had the help of his widowed mother, unknown to her. She always complained to him that he was too lazy and that he needed to find a job and help fix the old home they lived in. Well Taro followed out his plan and somehow got the house fixed and the mother had a plan of her own for Taro as well.

The book was very well written and had great pictures to go along with the story. Personally I didn't really like the book though. It just wasn't something that interested me even though it was well written. It is a rather long book and I wouldn't recommend reading it aloud to younger students. It would be a good take home book for children to read with their parents, many children would enjoy this book.

Owl Moon

Owl Moon is an adventure book written by Jane Yolen. The book is about a father and soon who go out on an adventure after dark to look for the elusive Great Horned Owl. Owling, as referred to in the book, requires silence and patience. The boy has a lot of fun with his father walking deep into the forest in search of the owl. It is cold outside and bundling in warm clothes for the long walk through the wintry wonderland is required. The father calls for the owl over and over so they can catch a glimpse of the great bird, but does the owl ever answer?

I really enjoyed this book. I like adventures that relate to the one they get to take. It reminds me of the father and son outing's and adventures I have taken with my father. I would recommend this book to any adventure seeker. Children of all ages would like this book. It is something that many children can relate to.

Flotsam

This is an interesting wordless book to look at. It doesn't have pictures that you would normally see. The colors in the pictures are great and the detail of the pictures are amazing. Flotsam begins with a kid combing the beach for items to look at the may have washed ashore, flotsam. As he is looking a crab he is swept up by a wave and finds a camera has just washed ashore beside him. He takes the book the the photo shop and develops the pictures and finds some really strange pictures. The camera had taken pictures underwater along its journey, and the pictures aren't things you would ever expect to see. The boy then finds a very interesting picture and looks closer and closer at the picture with hit magnifying glass, then with his microscope.
This book is very fun to look at. The pictures really make the book, which they have to because there are no words. I think readers of all ages could read this book because it is a long book and takes you on a journey through the ocean from the cameras perspective. It really causes the reader to think about what goes on when we can't see things and if there really are strange occurrences that happen when humans can't see them. I really liked this book, its one of those books that you can look through and either create a story or just enjoy and thoroughly observe the pictures.

Have You Seen My Duckling

Have You Seen My Duckling is a fun book with colorful pictures that draw a reader into the story. There really isn't that much text in the book and where there is text it is the same on each page.
The book is about a mother duckling, who early in the morning checks on her chicks and notices that one has gone missing. The mother duck goes searching for her missing chick with her other ducklings. As readers look closely they can see where the chick is on every page, it makes for a fun activity while reading. Where and how does the mother find her missing duckling?
The book would be for a beginning reader who can understand the repetition when there is text. Other than for reading I feel the book can be used for all lower elementary grades, it has great pictures to follow along with and its fun to look for the missing duckling in each page as the mother wonders where it has gone.

On The Move

On The Move is a step up book to reading by National Geographic School Publishing. Since it is step up to reading it is very simple. The text in the book is very large print and the pictures are the main focus of the page. Summarizing the book is hard to do with this simple of book. It has the same text on every page asking the reader "How do I move?", and shows a picture of an animal doing an action. The student is to guess how the given animal moves. The very last page of the book tells how the animal on each page actually does move since some of the pictures are misleading actually.
This book is for beginning readers that are just starting to learn about animals and how they move. It is very basic and doesn't really provide for very much reading, but can be important in the students who are learning about animals and gives them good pictures for observation as well. I thought this book was a good book with basic information for students but I wouldn't really recommend this book past 1st grade because it doesn't provide much for reading and the movements of the animals should be well known by this age.

The Red Book

Barbara Lehman wrote The Red Book, which is a wordless book so it allows for all sorts of different stories. My perception of the book begins with a little girl walking down the street and discovering a book buried in the snow. She picks up the book and puts it in her back pack on the way to school. While she is in school she gets bored and looks at the book and finds something magical about the book. What is it?

This book would be great for beginning readers who just need to get use to what a book is for; how to turn the pages and how to hold a book correctly. This book would also be fun so that kids can create their own story with the book and see it with a different perspective than the way I did. The book shouldn't only be used for beginning readers though, kids up to third grade would probably enjoy the book as I did. Personally I liked this book, it had great pictures and was just an interesting book. It requires the reader to look closely at the pages to see whats so magical about the book the girl finds.