When a small village is attacked by millions of wasp, the villagers work together to trap the wasp in an unusual way. This book is on an accelerated reading level of 3.8 (3rd grade, 8th month). Students will be able to work on sequencing events as they write down the order to make a peanut butter an...
When a small village is attacked by millions of wasp, the villagers work together to trap the wasp in an unusual way. This book is on an accelerated reading level of 3.8 (3rd grade, 8th month). Students will be able to work on sequencing events as they write down the order to make a peanut butter an...
I’ve already managed to force this book into the hands of several fellow aspiring writers. If I had I my way I would make it required reading. There are so few books that deal with the creative side of fiction, as opposed to the grammar/structure/revision side, that books like Butler’s are like an o...
As a kid, I was pretty much fascinated with any book that had giant, colorful pictures of food, so it only makes sense that my two favorites were Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and this, The Giant Jam Sandwich. Despite the more varied foodstuffs on display in the former, I have to give the edge t...
Clearly this book is written for the beginning English major in undergrad; the author herself even says so. Anyone outside of this demographic probably won't care or will grown bored. I fell into the latter group. While there were many kernals of good advice, it was all information I had heard be...
A very fun read aloud with a sing-songy cadence about a town (Itching Down) who come together to execute a solution to a common problem - four million wasps! As the title suggests they make a giant jam sandwich! And it works! Great, detailed, funny illstrations.
Forget everything you think you know about writing. Throw all the information you’ve obtained in school about how to write. All of that is useless. Writing doesn’t come from your logical, thoughtful brain. It’s really out of your control and it’s only when you let go of that control that you can wri...
I’ve been reading on this book, a dab at a time, all summer. It was the required reading for my personal essay writing class this summer. I went to look for it at B&N and it wasn’t there. I was happy to find I could download it, immediately, on my Kindle. An excellent use of my Kindle, as I could ca...
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