Nicolous Copernicus: The Earth is a Planet

This book was really insightful for me. I knew who Copernicus was and I kind of knew what he did but this book really cleared up a lot of things for me. I also liked that fact that the book was a biography but it was written in picture book format. I think that when I would think of biographies I always thought about a chapter book or just a book without pictures. It was good for me to see that biographies can be written in all types of forms. I also really liked the pictures and the bright colors that were used thoughout the book, although at times it made it hard to read the words on the page. I think that this book is a great book because it can be used in so many ways for so many different things.

Plunk's Dreams

I really liked this story. I thought it was a really cute story about the relationship between a boy and his dog. I know that many children who have ever had a pet has wondered about the dreams that their pet is having. Especially when you see your dog running in his sleep. I thought that this book gave really creative accounts of what might be going on in a dog's dream. I also liked the fact that the little boy in the book was able to challenge his parents thoughts about the dogs dreams and come up with his own. I think it is really important to let children know that although adults may have more experience with things there is still room for them to come up with their own explanations of things and I thought that this book did a good job showing this.

Dracula Doesn't Rock and Roll

I really liked this book. I remember when I was younger and reading the Bailey School Kids and I always loved them. I think it was because they were kids who were always getting into some type of crazy situation and I always wondered what it would be like to be a Bailey Kid. I thought that this book was really good because I can remember back when I was younger and thinking that some of my teachers were a little strange and my friends and I would all get together to discuss that teacher and try to understand what made them so different. I think this book was just good for me because it made me take a trip down memory lane and remember all the fun times I had when I was in grade school.

Grandaddy and Janetta

This book was written like the other books, such as it was split up into chapters but I cant say that I liked this book as much. I thought that this book seemed much more like a chapter book than it did like a picture book. I felt like the book really lacked pictures. There were some pictures thoughout the book but many of them were small and not very interesting to look at. I thought that because the pictures were missing and because the pages were filled with a lot of text that it might be boring for the age group the the book intended to reach, which was five to eight years. I thought that the story was really good but I also thought that if it was meant to lack pictures then maybe it should have been written at a more advanced level so that older students could enjoy reading it.

Georgia Music

This book was also written by the same author, Helen V. Griffith, but I can not say that it was my favorite out of all of her books that I read. I really liked the book and how the sounds that you here in Georgia were used to make music but some of the other things with the book made it a harder read for me. I know that the characters in the book are the same characters as in the other book but neither of the characters have actual names in this book. I thought that it was really hard to get into the book and relate to the characters as actual people because they did not have names and I think that this also made the story seem a little dull to me at times. Once I was able to get passed this, I did realize that I liked the pictures and that this book was different than the other ones because it did not have chapters. I thought that this was a nice change because it actually felt like a regular picture book which might be good for some students.

Grandaddy's Stars

This book was much like the last book that I blogged about, mainly because it was written by the same person. I really like that this book had chapters and I also thought it was really nice that it focused on the same characters that are in all the other books. I thought that this book was really funny because I could relate to the things that were going on. I really liked that the book played up the relationship between a girl and her grandfather because that is not something that is common in story books. I also really liked the pictures in this book because they were much like the pictures in the last book. One thing that I thought this book would be good for is using the imagination. I think sometimes we get so wrapped up into the real world that we forget to even use our imagination. I think this book did a very good job at getting your imagination working.

Grandaddy's Place

I thought that this was a really cute story about a little girl experiencing things for the first time. I really liked the way the pictures were done for this book. They were really fomal and were very easy to look at. They did not have any wild colors or things like that but I still thought they did a lot for the story. The other interesting thing about this book is that although it was a picture book, it still had chapters. I thought that this was really unique and would make younger students feel like they could read the same type of books, books with different chapters, as the older students.