I enjoyed reading this book. I liked where the words on each page were written by each character to show their dialogue. Lucia is such an active girl with a vast imagination, and she's confronted by some boys about how she can't be a superhero because she's a girl. Lucia wont stand for that so she, with the help of her grandmother gains her confidence back up to become the superhero all the girls needed on the playground. She broke that barrier, and now the boys and girls all enjoy playing together as whatever they want. I liked how this book used a basic scenario that would happen on a playground and taught everyone that its okay to be yourself and you should never have to hide behind a mask.

I enjoyed reading this book. I like the rhyming this book had it would sound great when reading aloud to kids and it just makes the sentences flow smoothly. I think having an African American girl loving science and becoming a scientist is fantastic! I love the diversity and think this would be a great book to have in your library to show children that anyone can be a scientist, and if you like something as much as Ada loved science, then you can do whatever you set your mind too, and no one can stop you from doing what you love.

Fox is such a cute character; he takes everything literally. I liked how when his mother told him to make a friend he literally tried to make a friend out of sticks and an apple! Throughout the book, Fox would fail at "making" a friend with sticks, but he would gain one with the help he has from the other animals who helped him build a friend. The illustrations are beautiful, they look like Relf took the book and just started drawing in it with a colored pencil. This is by far one of my favorite illustrations in a children's book.

I found this book interesting, I liked how the idea of books teaching children about these types of things. I enjoyed the illustrations, and I think the colors and flowers show the beauty in life and represent the children's innocence. Norma believes she's just getting off of school for one day to play with her cousin Ray when in actuality she's going to her great uncles funeral. I feel like this book would be good to have in your library for children going through or have gone through similar experiences can read so they know that they aren't alone.

I loved the illustrations. The black and white theme with the pop of yellow was perfect. I loved how Rapunzel was never afraid, she was a brave girl and stood up for herself, defeating the witch and running away to start fighting crime because she was fearless. This book is definitely one I will make sure to have in my library. Unlike the original Rapunzel story, I liked how this version didn't have a guy or prince save her. She saved herself and was proud of it!

This book is cute. I enjoyed the illustrations and the expressions the scary monsters had when they saw the little boy was hilarious! I liked how Paquette turned the tables and made it not like every other scary book; the monsters are afraid of the humans. They ran off, leaving the little boy in confusion as to why monsters were in his house and why were they afraid of him. I thought this was a fun twist and it's an interesting book to read to children. I also liked the "flip book" aspect to it; it left the readers trying to guess who or what was behind the flaps.

First of all, the illustrations are amazing. The bats look realistic, and they make me want to reach into the book and hold them! The images of the bats while setting up their umbrellas and towels on the beach are adorable. This book shows exactly what a human family would do at the beach but in the form of bats. The rhyming in this book was a great touch, I feel like watching the bats play their beach games and reading the rhyming words made it seem like a music video! It honestly was a great book, and if my students were to learn about bats in science, this would be number one on my read aloud list!

This story is such a classic; the illustrations are fantastic. As a child, I remember reading/hearing this story but where the sheep get eaten by the wolves, but in this book, the sheep ended up just hiding in the tree. I enjoyed this version since it's less gruesome to read to children, but the lesson the story has is being told and coming across clearly to the reader. I liked how this story had some repetitive phrases, and I would enjoy reading this aloud to have the children read along with me during those repetitive phrases. The illustrations are great! Kulikov did a fantastic job at portraying the shepherd as a goofy, bored child. I liked how when the "townsfolk" came running to look for the wolf it seemed like there was a riot going on. It was hilarious how some of the characters looked, some had baseball caps on, and others had top hats, and one had on a suit of armor.

The first thing I noticed while reading this book was the blue sea borders around the pages and illustrations. It makes the illustrations look like photographs; they look so clean and simple. I enjoyed this story and how these smart cats came together to save the day. I feel like this book would be a great book to read aloud to kids because it has some repetitive words and the image and the page of Mackerel "screaming" to the other cats in the town and towns nearby is just such a fantastic page I think children would enjoy. I will definitely have this book in my library!

This book was pretty good; I liked how Grant had some funny characters, like the Monkey and the Meerkat. These characters lightened up the situation that Chameleon was having. I enjoyed the characters and how they tried to help Chameleon "find his colors." This book would be a great book to read to children who are struggling to figure out or just confused about themselves. I feel like anyone who is having some self-doubt and thinking about why they're different from others.

I loved this book; I remember reading this in elementary school, and it reminds me so much of my little sister. The illustrations are beautiful, and I love the black and white theme with a pop of red on Olivia to match her active attitude. I understood her when she saw the painting in the museum, I also don't get how some art in the museums could be so popular, and I do sometimes feel like I could paint something similar within minutes. I like how relatable Olivia's character is to children and even some adults.

I loved the illustrations; they looked beautiful! My favorite illustration was when her brother stole the family rope from her; you could see his shadow holding the rope and sneaking out of her room. I also enjoyed how Woodson included three generations of girls grow up and still love this rope! It shows how something like a rope can be handed down through generations of family and still be valuable and loved. I also found it interesting how the last words of the book and the first words of the book are talking about the grandmother and how she's enjoying the "sweet-smelling pine."

I enjoyed reading this book. I loved seeing how Aria loved her hair and she was so proud of it! I found it difficult ever to love my hair, and it was nice to see a book about a girl celebrating her hair, and I really feel like this would be a great book to read to children who are feeling a little down about their apperences, or to children who can't keep their hands to themselves! It teaches a lesson that it's not okay to touch others without asking and it's respectful to keep your hands to yourself. I liked the illustration when she was running away from all the hands.

Throughout the book, the princess was the fastest of them all. She's racing all of the characters from the best fairytales! Unlike other princesses in other tales, this princess doesn't need saving. She's her own person, and I love that Angleberger did that in this story. She's a tough girl that races cars in a pink dress! I think this would be a great book to read to children so they can see that not all princesses need saving and if you want to drive a race car you most definitely can! I also enjoyed the illustrations; they are hilarious! They're so colorful, and the details and emotions in all the characters are amazing!

Through the tears, I honestly enjoyed this book. I love reading biographies and learning about people. I've always had an interest in learning more about the Holocaust, and I feel like this book gives a real, raw depiction of what the Holocaust was and how confused and scared Hana and George were as all the other children and adults were at the time. The way Levine structured the book to have each chapter continuing on Hana's journey and Fumiko's journey to figure out who Hana was, it was interesting, and I enjoyed it, I liked seeing their journey, in a way, intertwine even though the stories were years apart. This type of writing reminded me of the "Crank" series by Ellen Hopkins I read in high school with each chapter being a different characters point of view and life. Even though Hopkins wrote her books that way to be poetic. I found it inspiring to see how Fumiko never gave up, she didn't want to disappoint the children, and as a future teacher, I understand that feeling.

This book was fascinating, it's a recreation of the classic, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but with three banana slugs and an ant named DreddieLocks. Banana slugs produce the stickiest slime in the world so you could imagine their house was beyond sticky. Throughout the book, DreddieLocks was trying the slugs food and trying out their beds, but everytime he went to try a new thing the old one would stick to him! For example, when DreddieLocks tried the first bowl of "gruel," it was too hot, so he moved on to the next, but the spoon of the first gruel was stuck on him because of the slime! I thought this was a great idea to add to the story. I also liked the end, you would think that the enormous slug, Ooey, would be mean and try to keep DreddieLocks trapped in the house, but that wasn't the case. Ooey just laughed at DreddieLocks because he had spoons, bowls, and mushroom beds stuck to his body. Ooey decided that since DreddieLocks made him laugh he will allow him to stay in the house and eat dinner with them and they all lived "slimily ever after." At the end of the story, Hyde added a few facts about banana slugs and ants which helped me figure out why everything was sticking to DreddieLocks! This book did an excellent job at recreating the classic story by adding a funny twist to it where the children learn something at the end about the banana slug and ants.

I remember reading this book as a child and thinking, "Wow David is such a bad kid!" and now that I'm older I understand that this book is about a regular kid that loves to play. He's just a kid. The illustrations are interesting and they make David look like a bad kid that will not stop misbehaving, with his crazy antics and his mischievous smile! I like how the author made the mother mad at David the whole time and she was always telling him to behave and at the end David when David was upset his mother was there to comfort him and show him affection. This teaches children that yes your parents will yell at you to stop doing certain things, but when you're upset, you will always have them to make you feel better.

The cover art was what drew me to this book, when I first picked it up I didn't know it was a poetry book. I don't always go towards poetry books because sometimes they're harder to understand but I enjoyed this one. I loved the illustrations; I liked how they had a dark, scary look to them. The pictures make the reader question the spider's overall character. I liked the message this book had. You can't trust everyone, especially if you have your doubts about them, trust your gut. Throughout the book, the spider tried to convince the fly to come into his house and eat the dinner he prepared for them, but she refused and said that she'd heard stories about him eating other insects like flies. He laughs and continues to compliment her. She loves the compliments and gets caught up mentally and caught up in his web physically where he then eats her! I like how the spider also acknowledges the reader at the end and tells us about how not to get "trapped in some schemer's web."

I enjoyed reading this book. I feel like this would be a great book to read aloud to kids. In the beginning, I thought that Bruce was just an average bear that liked eggs until he started to use a computer to look up different recipes to cook eggs. It's hilarious! When the eggs that Bruce was preparing to make for dinner hatched into geese, I loved that! The image of them in the pot calling him mama was my favorite image in the whole book. I like how throughout the text you see bruces character develop and he gets attached to the geese even though Bruce didn't want them, he still ended up keeping them. When Bruce and the geese "migrated" to Miami, you see on the last page that a baby turtle washes ashore and starts to call one of the geese mama! That shows the students how some animals have that automatic instinct to follow the first thing they see and think it's their mother.

I loved this book! I liked how Erskine incorporated something tragic, like a school shooting into this book that linked to the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. By doing this, she brings awareness to the subject, and the readers get a sense of "this can happen to anyone." I also really enjoyed Caitlin and how she referenced the dictionary a lot and how it made her feel "comfortable." This book brings awareness to Asperger's and insight on how a person with this disorder can sometimes feel and what could go through their head. Chapter 24 had me in tears, this is when Caitlin learns about the definition of closure, and she learns "how to experience an emotional conclusion to a difficult life event." She realizes she needs to finish Devon's chest for closure. This book reminded me of the book, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, that I read in high school. In both of the books, the main characters have a creative way to express themselves, Caitlin loves to draw, and Christopher loves to write in his journal. Both of the characters have to learn to cope with and overcome any social fears and limitations of their condition. I honestly loved this book and would have one in my home library and one in my classroom library.

I enjoyed this book. It talked about how we all came to America, different races, colors, and religions. We all had a reason why we came to America. This book acknowledges that some people came to America to be free, some were brought here in chains to be sold as slaves. It also talked about how we bought all our cultures together, and we created our America. All these different cultures "made America great."
I think this is an excellent book to have in the classroom and to have in general. It shows children that in America we have many different races, colors, and religions, because of this America is excellent and the diversity never ends.

This book is about an interracial family. The author, Adoff, wrote this book in 1973, this book featured the first interracial family in children's books. This book is written in a poem form, with rhyming words. I don't like poems much it takes me a while to understand what the author was trying to say. The mother is the color of "chocolate milk," and the daddy is white but "not white like snow or milk," he has pinks in his skin too. The two children are a mix of both, and the book talks about their love for their family, and they acknowledge that their family is multiracial and they are proud of it.

I enjoyed this book. This book is about a girl that loves herself. She doesn't care about what people think of her as long as she is being herself and trying not to please anyone but herself. I feel like this would be an excellent book for anyone to read. I honestly thought it boosted my confidence a little; it was just a reminder that who cares what people think about you if you love yourself. The illustrations were super cute. I loved how in every page she had her pet dog there with her supporting her decisions and loving her for her, Even if she had, "beaver breath or stinky toes."

Peter wakes its snowing outside, and he's excited, so he runs out to play. I like how the words make the reader look at the illustrations when it talks about the way Peter left footmarks in the snow. After this Peter runs around in the snow making snow angels and snowmen. When it starts to get late, Peter puts some snowballs in his pocket to save for later. The snowballs end up melting, and Peter is upset that they vanished. He has a bad dream that when he wakes up the snow will be gone and he won't have anything to play with the next day. When he wakes up, he realizes that the snow is still there and he can continue playing and using his imagination to play in the snow. Keats has a few books that have to do with dreaming and the characters waking up and using their imagination to entertain themselves.

In "A Letter to Amy," We learn that Peter, the main character, wanted to invite his friend Amy to his birthday party, but he was nervous about what his friends would say because a girl was going to come to his party. While Peter tried to deliver the letter the weather got bad, it started storming. I feel like the weather symbolized Peters feelings, He was scared about what the boys would think, so the weather was rainy and windy. While walking through the storm to deliver the letter to the post box, it flew out of Peters' hand. Amy came along and caught the letter and Peter looked terrified; He didn't want Amy to see that the letter was meant for her, so he knocked her down and got the letter back, Amy was hurt and ran away crying. After this Peter was sad, he thought that after that Amy would never show up to his party. In the end, at Peters party, Amy showed up, and at first the boys were confused as to why a girl was there, but in the end, they all got along, and Peter blew out his candle and made his wish. I liked how Keats left the wish unknown, so it's up to the reader to assume what Peter wished for when he blew out his candles.

This book is about Archie and the cat that followed him in a previous book, "Hi, Cat." There is a town pet show going on, and all the kids in the town were going to bring their pets. Archie was going to bring a cat, but he couldn't find him. I liked how in the illustrations an image of a cat is drawn in chalk on all the buildings that Archie passes, He can't find the cat anywhere, but the cat's picture is following him. Archie finally finds a new pet, A germ in a bag! The judges looked at each other and archie, and they decided to give Archie's germ the prize for the quietest pet. All while that was going on another judge saw an old woman that walked up to the show with the cat, Archies cat. The woman got a blue ribbon for having a cat with the longest whiskers. When the show was over the woman walked up to Archie, and she knew it was his cat, so she tried to give him her ribbon, but Archie refused to take it. In the end, Archie got his cat back, and the old woman got a blue ribbon and a new friend, Archie.

This book is about dreaming. In the illustrations, you can see the building, and all the windows are lit up with light and when people start falling asleep and start dreaming their windows get colorful, representing that they're dreaming. Everyone in the building is dreaming but one, Roberto. His window is the only one that's pitch black. He then wakes up and looks out the window to see Archie's cat, getting chased by a dog. The cat is stranded and doesn't have anywhere to hide, so Roberto drops his paper mache mouse, and the mouse made a considerable shadow which frightened the dog, and the cat got away safely. The illustrations in this book are so eye-catching, they are so detailed, and the use of color and darkness is excellent. My favorite illustration would probably be when the mouse is falling the shadow is black, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger covering the page. It really shows how big the mouses shadow was on the building.

Louie is on the search for a father. Louie doesn't have a father, so he goes off into the city to find one of his own. He realizes how no one in the town notices a little boy like him. As he's walking, he saw something falls out of the back of someone's truck; It's a music box. The man in the truck then sees him and thinks that Louie stole the box, so he went off to Louie's home to tell his mother that his son is "a crook." After this Barney, the man realized that Louie didn't steal the box. He started to get closer with Louie and his mother and a few months later Barney and his mother get married. Louie found himself a father that day. This book brings up the idea of children who might not have a father and how they feel. I feel like this book would be good to read to children so they will be aware that some kids might not have a father.

This book is all about imagination! The children have trouble using their imagination. They call Louies pop the junkman because he collects things that most people would see as junk but pops shows Louie that this"junk" can be turned into anything if they use their imagination. So Louie and his pop build a spaceship called "Imagination I." all the kids laugh at him, but Louie doesn't listen to them he's focused on "goin' outta this world." While in "space" two other girls try to tag along but they're scared, and they're running out of imagination, and they need that to keep the ships flying! In the end, all the kids love the ships and use their imagination to go out of the world! This book teaches kids about using their imagination to have fun. And that with imagination anything is possible.

I loved this book. This book is about Archie seeing a stray black cat in the streets and just merely greeting the cat, the cat followed Archie. All throughout the book, Archie was trying to be funny, and the entertainment of all the kids on the street, but the cat kept getting in the way and ruining Archie's jokes which causes the audience of kids to leave slowly. When Archie was going home for the night, he noticed that the cat was waiting for him in front of his house. He then realized that the cat wasn't trying to ruin his day, the cat just "kinda liked" him.