This book would appeal to young girls.  There are situations that would be common to the average girl in school, and also a sci-fi  side to the story.  It was an easy read, and full of colorful cartoon style pictures.  It is a light read.  The bully vs. the nice girl was the main story line.  It was just ok.

This is a very informative book on the African Americans in the 1950’s.  When they traveled,especially in the South, it was hard to find a place to eat, sleep, or buy gas for the car.  Many places refused services to black people.

As a result The Green Book became the travelers guide, with places that would allow blacks to come and be safe.

This is a good book for students to read and understand how it was for the blacks in the early history of our country.

This is a great book!  It is exciting and fun.  The pictures are colorful and bright, with lots to look at. The book is written in rhyme and is fun to read.

This book is quite different.  It is about a little bird who doesn’t like being the smallest until he learns he can sing (or warble)  as big as anyone and he does.

The drawing are wonderful and different.  Sometimes I couldn’t find the little bird but I guess that is the point of the book.

I love the pictures in this book.  They are stitched with felt and are beautifully done.  They have a 3-D look to the and It makes you want to feel the pages.

This is a very cute nursery rhyme book. Anyone would love to read and look at the is book.

Big Bear Hug is Nicholas Oldland’s first picture book.  The Photoshopped illustrations are simple and charming.  Blues, greens. and browns predominate with plenty of white space.  The story shows a bear lovingly hugging every living thing he meets.  The comical expressions on the faces of those not expecting a hug from a bear are humorous.  What the bear loved to hug most were trees.  When a man with an axe came and stared at the most beautiful tree in the forest, bear thought he loved trees, too.  Angered when the man started to chop the tree, bear found he could only do what he did best – hug.  The man was so surprised, he ran far away.  Themes include conservation and the power of a hug.

Chicken Big is a funny twist on the traditional tale.  When a humongous chick hatches in the itty-bitty coop, the smaller chickens think he is an elephant and exclude him from the coop.  As the chicks panic when things fall on the smallest chicken’s head, bug chicken calmly takes control.  They think he is a squirrel, an umbrella, a sweater, and a hippopotamus.  When big chicken rescues their eggs, they realize that the only thing that could be so smart, kind, warm, and brave… is a chicken!  The illustrations are mostly pastel blue, taupe, and yellow.  The text font is playful when the small chickens are frantic.  The smallest chicken has personlity to spare!

In this graphic version of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, Sherlock tussles with an evil villain and they both fall off of a cliff, which leads Watson to believe both men are dead.  Three years pass, and during that time the police have asked Watson to fill Holmes’ shoes, but he is unavailable to be as effective as the clever detective.  When a murder occurs, Holmes shows up, unannounced and explains that he’s been in hiding for the past three years to draw out the others who want him dead.  It looks like it’s back to business as usual.  More interesting dialogue and artwork when compared the the previous Sherlock Holmes graphic novel I reviewed by Graphic Universe.

In this graphic novel, Holmes and Watson are on an errand for the King of Bohemia who feels a need to retrieve an incriminating photo of he and a young lady.  The young lady outsmarts Holmes, runs off and gets married and takes the photo with her.  I’m not really sure why the photo was so incriminating; it’s a little confusing.  Not much else happening in the story.  It didn’t hold my attention and I don’t think it will hold students’ attention either.

This is a true story of Konrad Lorenz and how he studied the geese.  Konrad was always interested in animals but geese were his favorite.  He would study them for hours.  Konrad watched the hatching of the eggs and listen to the sounds that the geese made.  He learned the different sounds and what they meant.  Konrad Lorenz won the Nobel Prize for his studies and research.

This is a very informative book.  I learned a lot about geese.  The pictures are wonderful and soft pastels.