The Infinty Ring series brings us into the depths of battle. Thus helping a young reader develop a better understanding of war, working together and doing what's right for the whole instead of the individual. I love the new approach to history brought to us by this series.
We learn from those who go before
This is an older book, but it is worth a second look. It has lovely pictures and it is about Gregory, a painter, who takes Charlie, an aspiring painter, under his wing. It reminds us how we learn from those who have gone before!
Yes, teachers, indeed, do similar work to the President!
This book makes wonderful comparisons between what teachers do every day and what the President does daily!
A fun book for Presidents' Day
This book rhymes (with challenging vocabulary) and gives a spin on why George Washington may have decided to go into politics. Amusing!
A fun book for Presidents' Day!
Benji looks a lot like Lincoln and he doesn't like it. His parents send him to a camp where people look like things and he discovers that he is proud of his looks and who he looks like. Fun!
A Mutiny in Time Book One of the Infinity Ring
I found this to be a fun an entertaining way to approach history. Things aren't they way they should be and our band of time travelers are on a mission to correct history and set it on its natural course.
Goldilocks, Dinosaurs and Chocolate Pudding
My second graders loved this winking Goldilocks tale with a twist. There are no bears here, just three innocent dinosaurs who go for a walk (they are definitely not hiding in the woods nearby), leaving their door open and their chocolate pudding out, with absolutely no thought that a hapless little girl might wander in and provide them with a chocolate filled snack when they return.
Willems has a lot of fun here with the original story: hot, cold or just right, Goldilocks eats all of the pudding (it is chocolate pudding, after all.) And the chairs? The first and second ones are too tall. The third one...still too tall.
Will Goldilocks get out before the dinosaurs return from their...er...walk? Or will she be a chocolate pudding-filled bonbon for the hungry dinosaurs when they return?
As a bonus, the endpapers are covered with (presumably) rejected ideas for Goldilocks stories. Goldilocks and the Three Plumbers? Goldilocks and the Three Wall Street Types? If anyone could make it work, it would be Willems.
We read this book aloud as a family a few weeks ago. We chose it because we had listened to Endymion Spring, another book by Matthew Skelton, a few years ago on audio. I prefer Endymion Spring because it is more complex and because of it’s historical roots and being set in the library in Oxford. Cirrus Flux is a good book, though. It is the story of the orphan, Cirrus Flux, an orphan in 19th century London, whose father left him a mysterious artifact that a bunch of adults all seem to want. Oh, yeah, and he gets to ride in a hot air balloon that is powered by a bird whose wings set on fire. There’s cool stuff like that in the book. Overall, a good book. A-
