Louis is a young swan who cannot speak. When his father steals a trumpet for him, he is thrilled but troubled about the debt his father incurred. He goes to work to earn the money to pay for the trumpet.Sam is a young boy who loves the outdoors and observing the Wild life in their natural habitat. H...
So maybe I wasn't expecting this book to turn out like it did. First five chapters were straight-up Jean Craighead George nature documentary. I mean that in the most complimentary way possible. Chapter six: sudden, abrupt left turn into Danny and the Dinosaur territory. (or Sammy the Seal, if yo...
I have mixed feelings about The Trumpet of the Swan. First the pluses. Our toddler enjoyed the read along very much. She thought my imitation of the swans' "ko-hoh!" was silly. Fred Marcellino's beautiful sepia drawings really helped tell the story. And the closing lines made me feel warm and fuzzy ...
My niece enjoyed this story, but when I asked her what she liked about it, she couldn't really give me an answer. I think that for her this was just one of those stories that you like, but that you can't really pinpoint why. The ending, in which all that's left of the tin soldier is a hunk of tin ...
How can you not like a story which features the Devil's grandmother!?! A very delightful, lesser known Grimm fairy tale - well told and beautifully illustrated!
It a sweet story and I would recement reading it before watching the movie but I have read and watched the movie and it somewhat similar to the book but the book is quite more detailed.
My niece and nephew loved The Story of Little Babaji! The illustrations in this book are just fantastic, and the expressions on the faces of the tigers throughout the book are such fun to look at! The kids laughed at each tiger as it strode around in an article of Babaji's fine clothing, and they ...
I have no idea how I managed to not read this as a kid. It's way more fun than Stuart Little, not nearly as sad/good as Charlotte's Web, but almost as funny. Maybe funnier, actually. Just like in Charlotte's Web, E.B. ends the book with a calm, beautiful, somewhat embarrassing paragraph that I wa...
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