For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleA surprisingly creative and unique book told entirely in street signs. This rhyming book features a little monkey who steals a banana and all of the chaos that ensues because of one action. Great book for looking at cause and effect. Also interesting l...
Once Upon a Banana is a silly story about a monkey that causes a lot of chaos in one small town. The book has very little text aside from street signs, so the story is very picture heavy. The text that is there received a 1.9 on the Gunning-Fog readability scale and should be easy for first and seco...
This book is really a nice piece of work. The illustrations are just fantastic, and what a story! It is exciting, it's emotional, and it's educational. My niece and nephew were so quiet while we read this story (that's *very* rare) that you could have heard a pin drop. I was really surprised tha...
A very quick read, but engrossing. Jennifer Armstrong has created a realistic portrayal of what children might do in a post-apocalyptic world without adults, and it's moving, with a great mystery behind it.
I loved this book with all my heart. Lovisa's voice rings so true, and the story is so well-written, that one is simply carried along in the wagon train. The hardships and the little beauties were lovingly delineated throughout. There was no way the King family's wagon train was going to get to Oreg...
Lovisa King was just seventeen in the spring of 1845 when her three generations of her family loaded up the green, canvas covered wagons to make the two thousand mile journey from Missouri to Oregon. Born right in the middle of ten brothers and sisters, Lovisa begins their expedition with dauntless ...
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