This is a rather fascinating story about a girl’s imagination.  It has whimsical pictures of what she is imagining.  The story is an abstract version of how a creative writer gets their ideas.  I sort of enjoyed it.  The pictures were fun to explore.  This is a fairly quick read.  The vocabulary is more advanced, beyond a beginning reader.  It is a nice addition to our library.  I enjoyed how calm and pleasant it makes you feel.

This is a sweet fun story about a five year old and her grandfather.  Joone loves orange.  Grandpa says it is important to do things for other people.       Joone is a simple carefree girl.  The story and pictures are cute and fun.  I think young children would enjoy this story, and learn to serve others, and play creatively.

The font is fairly small, but easy to read.  There are a lot of early sight words in the text.  This story is a wonderful addition to our library.

It is a book children will love because it is so peaceful and makes you happy.

This story is a fun story for kids who love animals.  The story teaches great lessons in respecting others needs and feelings, as well as being responsible.  The end of the book has instructions for caring for a pet hamster.  It was a fun read with cute pictures.  A good choice for younger readers who want to start reading chapter books.  The font is large and easy to read.  The vocabulary is good for younger readers.

This is a story that teaches children to stand up for their feelings and needs by saying no when it’s appropriate.  It is a great book for helping children learn to be strong and independent of social pressure.

There are parent helps at the end of the book with insights into how children develop a good self image, with actual suggestions you can apply as they teach their child.

The pictures are colorful and simple.  The font is east to read, although the thought bubbles have a cursive, more difficult font for a young reader to read.

There is a typo on page 7 second paragraph, it says, “Jills hugs Hopper.”

This book has a lot of information about scorpions.  I learned that there are almost two thousand different kinds of scorpions.  But only about three dozen species can actually kill a person and only one lives in the United States.   The smallest is about one half inch.  The largest is up to eight inches long.

I wish the pictures were actual photos instead of drawings.

I like the pronunciation guide in the back.

Nothing about it is really grabbing me, but I guess I don’t really have any strong objections either, so it lands in the fuzzy “additional purchase” category.  It’s a series of very short poems (most of which follow pretty much the same five-short-line format) that together trace through the course of a day from getting up and getting dressed to playing at the park, eating dinner, and going to bed.  My only actual gripe is with the color-scheme of the illustrations that seems to be part of a trend I’ve been noticing lately in too many picture books: using colors that are rather soft and dull and kinda drab.

Horses continuously provide a certain lure to certain readers.  Wild horses have a special allure all their own.  The beautiful color photos that illustrate this book will hook the readers, and the text will inform them and make them think.  As it traces the story (across several decades) of the research that has gone into developing a medicine to control the population growth of wild horses with minimal intrusion, and why such measures are necessary, it also teaches about the history of wild horses, their genetics, and their lifestyle (although somehow that doesn’t seem like the appropriate word to apply to a community of animals, but I like how all-encompasing it is).  It is well-written and packed with science in a real-world context.

The illustrations are cute, but the story is lame.  It’s basically about a chameleon who’s all excited to see a sign declaring him “King of the Zoo,” until he tours the zoo, seeing the same sign on all the animals and throwing a temper tantrum over not being the best, until he’s all happy again when one little visitor declares him to be her favorite.  We never have an explanation for what the purpose is of the signs, and the chameleon never learns that it’s not a competition.  There doesn’t seem to be a point other than to provide an excuse to draw a cute chameleon shifting shapes/colors.

It’s a fun little story about being proud of your differences.  Crispin is a young dragon who is at first horrified on his seventh birthday, when he’s supposed to start breathing  fire, to find that he breathes other stuff instead.  First his dad tries taking him to the doctor or school to solve the problem, then Crispin runs away to try to escape the problem, and then he befriends a young knight who tries to help him solve the problem, but in the end everyone realizes that being different isn’t necessarily a problem after all.  It helps that every time Crispin tries to breathe fire, whatever comes out instead happens to be whatever is most useful at that moment.  Dragons are always a hit, and this one is cute and conveying a good message.

I like the style of the artwork:  the colors are rich, the monsters are silly — they’re eye-catching.  I’m not sure if it’s a failing in the artwork or in the storyline, or in the connection between the two, but somewhere there is a lack.  This is a nearly wordless story (tag, you’re, & it are the only words), and as such it is dependent upon the strength of the pictures to tell the story.  Maybe it’s a matter of the story being too complicated to be well told in this format, but all the way through you’re never really sure what’s going on, or what the point is — it leaves too many questions unanswered in my opinion, but then maybe it’s going for that — leaving it to the reader’s interpretation?