“Little House” the early generation
January 8, 2018
I didn’t know these books existed! They are fun. Accurate, not so much, but fun. Little House in the Highlands (Little House: The Martha Years #1) by Melissa Wiley
Tag: kids
The Hoover Dam by Jeffrey Zuehlke
August 18, 2017
10 year old’s rating: Good. How do dams make you able to turn on the light? I could read all the words! Good pictures.
The Brooklyn Bridge by Elizabeth Mann
August 18, 2017
The Brooklyn Bridge: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Bridge and the Remarkable Family That Built It by Elizabeth Mann 10 year old’s review: Buy, don’t borrow, this book. Some of the words were hard. The pictures were great. The river froze and the ferries crashed, hahaha! The big boss was so busy thinking … More The Brooklyn Bridge by Elizabeth Mann
Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman
July 13, 2017
The princess is blind. She also refuses to speak, and who can heal that? Not the doctors, only the tiger. So off Princess Cinnamon goes to forest, which she can’t see, to hang with the tiger. Strange story, lovely artwork.
Odd and the Frost Giants & Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
May 23, 2017
Best part: a nine year old boy wants to make a rainbow. He knows rainbows live over the waterfall in the summer, but now it is winter. So he cuts a piece of ice into a triangle and puts it in sunlight … and spills a rainbow on the ground. Hm, but rainbow bridges are … More Odd and the Frost Giants & Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
One Last Wish: A Tale from India by Suzanne I. Barchers
May 5, 2017
Don’t marry that man – he’s going to die in a year. Is a year of happiness worth the sorrow of being a widow? What if you are a pious princess who could ‘bargain’ with death? View all my reviews
Sefer Torah Parade by Tzivia Adler
March 5, 2017
What a fun book. A little girl enjoys the parade with music and ‘real live fire’. And she’s got her very own flag to wave! The Sefer Torah or ‘scroll of the Bible’ is paraded from the house of the family that commissioned it to the synagogue will it will be used. The Torah scroll … More Sefer Torah Parade by Tzivia Adler
Class Dismissed by Allan Woodrow
February 26, 2017
Going to school and sitting in classroom – with no teacher – is harder than you’d think. Five children learn something unexpected. The super-responsible person learns to relax. The super-irresponsible person learns to step up and pay attention. The super-fashionable person learns to focus on character, not clothes. The super-bashful person learns to speak up. … More Class Dismissed by Allan Woodrow
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
June 2, 2016
The words were OK, just a few stumbles, the pictures were WONDERFUL the weapons were hilarious, the uniforms were full of shiny. But why did one side all wear blue and one side all wore orange?
If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss
June 2, 2016
9 year old review: Do I have to read this? It’s fun to listen about the make-believe animals, but * year old did not want to stumble through the weird words.
