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Loading... The Relatives Cameby Cynthia Rylant
This book allows children to relate events and the theme of the story to their own lives. This book is great when you are trying to teach the sequencing of events. (  ) Cfrizzle | Apr 23, 2013 |  The Relatives Came is a sweet book. It's message is that no matter how far family may be, they will always be there to help you through whatever and always miss you. One family lives in Virginia and the other across the state; they drove all the way to visit their family and stayed for weeks. They ate, visited, and helped fix all the things that were broken around the house. Its all about family togetherness. aclemen1 | Apr 22, 2013 | This is a good book about teachers showing beginnging, middle and end - sequencing of events. This book is good for reading and writing. I think the kids will love it because it is a funny, good book to read. (  ) MichelleForestier | Apr 22, 2013 | This whimsically illustrated book tells the story of a family reunion with relatives from Virginia who come to stay for weeks over the summer. It describes the journey the relatives take through valleys and the houses they see, the snacks they brought with them and the warm embraces shared once they arrived. There is a big family dinner and lots and lots of hugging and conversation in every room throughout the house. After several weeks the relatives pack up again and head back to Virginia where their grape trees are ready to be picked. This is a great book to share with children during a unit on families. It could open the conversation about what they do during family reunions or trips over the summer. (  ) KellyLPickett | Apr 16, 2013 | “In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars.” (Amazon Summary)  yunlee | Mar 12, 2013 |
 Cynthia Rilant has some incredible books that I get nostalgic for a time in my childhood. The time when all my relatives came to celebrate a holiday, it was fun. Mostly. We did not have cool summer reunions as the family does in this book. What I did like was celebrating the holidays with a huge, scrumptious meal. The stories were funny or interesting. I learned that my grandfather came from Russia and had to fight in the Japanese- Russian war. He was nine years old. He did not like to discuss this period of time in his life, but that meant I could ask other relatives to see if he told them anything about this time. I learned that Big Mama, my great grandmother, crashed into the window of a car dealership. When the policeman came, she said " Young man I was here in this town before you were born. This is a two way street. You better not write me a ticket." My uncle had to secretly pay the ticket without Big Mama's knowledge. I loved the pictures of the relatives eating together, playing music together, and sleeping together. I always feel nostalgic, because so many of my relatives are deceased now. I remember the good times when we were together. There were plenty of times when heated discussions occurred. When one relative was not speaking to another relative, but I refuse to remember the unhappy times.
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