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Have you ever had a great idea that just didn't work out the way it should have? This is what happened to Annie Edson Taylor. At age 62, she decides she needs money to live on in her old age. She thinks about it and comes up with a great way to 'strike it rich.' Her plan is to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel, live to tell about it, and capture fame and fortune. The year is 1901 and no one has ever done this. On October 24th, she goes over the falls. She is indeed the first person ever to do this and she is still the only woman to have gone over the falls alone. Read this account to see just where her plan goes wrong.
Reviewed by: mec
Date read: 6/1/2011
ISBN-13: 9780547315812
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Quiet Bunny loves the sound of the forest, especially the night song. One night, he wishes to be able to make a sound, any sound, to join in. Though he spends the next day on a journey to find a sound and even tries to copy the bird's chirp and the snake's hiss, he is still unable to make any sound. After some sage advice from Owl, he is able to start the night song in his own special way.
Reviewed by: mec
Date read: 6/28/2011
ISBN-13: 9781402757198
Rain
Robert Kalan (1991), 32 pages
Illustrated by Donald Crews
Audience: Preschool - Preschool
Category: Picture Books
A book filled with simple concepts such as colors and names for parts of the environment (sky, cloud, sun). This book follows a rain storm from the beginning with a gathering of clouds to the rainbow at the end.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 4/28/2009
ISBN-10: 0688104797
ISBN-13: 9780688104795
Everyone is a little nervous and has questions on the first day of school. 'Will they give us a pencil?' 'Will I learn to read?' But when Thomas arrives on his very first day, there is no school, just a teacher. 'We will build our school. This is the first lesson,' she says. You see, Thomas's school is in Chad, Africa and the first assignment of the year is to build the school building using mud bricks.
Nine months later, the school year is over. What they learn is theirs to keep, but Mother Nature takes back the school. The rains and winds come and slowly destroy the mud school. Come September, the teacher and students will be back to build and learn more.
Reviewed by: mec
Date read: 6/1/2011
ISBN-13: 9780547243078
Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale
Lynn Roberts (2003), 32 pages
Illustrated by Roger Daniels
Audience: Preschool - 2nd Grade
Rapunzel lives atop a broken-down apartment building with Aunt Esme, the scariest lunch lady at the local school. Roger, lead guitarist in a high-school band, overhears Aunt Esme calling; 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair.' Intrigued, Roger schemes to meet the owner of such long, red, hair and they plot her escape. This familiar fairy tale is set in our not-too-recent 1970s, complete with platform shoes, bell-bottoms, and a Saturday Night Live poster (stayin' alive, stayin' alive!)
Similar books: Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story, also by Lynn Roberts & Roger Daniels.
Reviewed by: donna
Date read: 7/7/2009
ISBN-10: 0810942429
ISBN-13: 9780810942424
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