pan2 ⭐️ This is not the book for me. If it wasn‘t an #IllinoisReads2019 title, I would have never picked it up. I am not a haiku person to begin with, and I think this book may want to use the haikus to tell a story, but it seems to jump everywhere. Plus the illustrations mostly looked like spilled chalk paintings that are more blurr than art.
pick5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This story is just too cute. The rhymes are perfect, the cadence secure, and the illustrations so much fun, you feel like you are there. A cat and a turtle go to sea and have marvelous adventures with their friends. A perfect read for storytime or any time.
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so-so2⭐️ I‘m sorry but for me this book was just boring. The illustrations are well done, colorful, and are perfect to go with the story, but the story is long, wordy, and boring. It‘s more a non-fiction look at the daily cycle of animals and plants than a story for group reading.
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so-so3⭐️ To me the end notes of this book were more interesting than the story. The story seems to wander crooked roads. But upon reading the endnotes, you learn that the style of the story was based of Chagall's own writings, and while I still find it odd and a bit unsettling, make the story more interesting, but not interesting enough for me to use in storytime.
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pick4.5⭐️ Hey Black Child is a poem written before I was born by Useni Eugene Perkins as part of a play. It was meant to empower black children to be whatever they wanted to be. The illustrator took note of that in matching the illustrations to the words. It shows children becoming great people such as royalty, leaders, astronauts,m, etc. It is meant to show that skin color is not a detriment to what you want to do or become.
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pick5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I don‘t know what is better, the story, or the illustrations. Both are fun, magical, and full of imagination. The artist does do well with incorporating his soft style of art with a completely real looking box. The story is a sweet rhyme about all the things a box can be in the hands of imaginative children. A time of a simple love of the creative that is contained within these pages works perfectly for any reader.
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pick4⭐️ Such a nice story. The author has encompassed map making with little girl looking for adventure and excitement. The journey will be far, and may take many maps, but she will search far and wide for something to amaze her classmates. And sometimes, that simple something is a story.
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pick4⭐️ This lovely story is based on a real one. A tree is a home to many happy animals. Even humans can love a tree. But what do you do when a tree is considered “unsafe” or is no longer happy and green and leafy? You build a treehouse. I love that this is based on a real family, and a real tree. The story and the illustrations are lovely.
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pick4⭐️ Shark Nate-O just taught me there is a shark that can use it‘s fun to walk on land, so either evolution is moving fast, or I need to run faster. This book is really fun. Nate loves sharks and while he likes to play at being a shark. the only real way to be a shark is to swim. swimming lessons it is. This book is great for anyone endeavoring to take swimming lessons. this book will help make it okay to go back in the water.
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