chapter book 9

Author- Ronald Dahl
Title- James and the Giant Peach
Illustrator- Lane Smith
Genre- Juvenile Fantasy
Theme- fantasy
Date of Publication- 1996

Summary: James is an orphan who must live with his horrible aunts. After so many years he get very lonley. One day a strange man gives him crystals and he tells James that these will make him happy again. Well james Accidentally spills them under a peach and this is where his adventure come in. 

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Author- Doreen Cronin
Title- Click, Clack Moo:  Cows That Type
Illustrator- Betsy Lewin
Genre- Juvenile Fiction
Theme- cows,farm animals 
Date of Publication- 2000

summary: Farmer brown has a great farm with cows and pigs and all kinds of animals. There is something slightly different about his cows though, they like to type notes to farmer brown. Soon the cows start making demands and will not perform until he does what they want. 

picture book 24

Author- Maurice Sendak
Title- Where the Wild Things Are
Illustrator- Maurice Sendak
Genre- Juvenile Fiction
Theme- children dealing with dark emotions
Date of Publication- 1988

summary: Max one day gets in trouble by his mother and sent to his room. While he is there is pretends that his room is an ocean and a forest and he goes to where the wild things are. See the great imagination here.

picture book 23

Author- Judith V. 
Title- alexander and the terrible, horrible no good, very bad dayIllustrator- Sheila McGraw
Genre- ray cruz
Date of Publication- 1987

summary: Read about this little boy who can remember everything that makes a bad day, his bad day. 

Picture book 22

Author- Robert N. Munsch
Title- I'll Love You Forever
Illustrator- Sheila McGraw
Genre- Juvenile Fiction
Theme- The love only a mother has for her children
Date of Publication- 1995

Summary: a woman loves her child and every night she sings him the same song. I'll like you forever, ill love you for always, as long as your living my baby you'll be. she continues to sing this to him even through his adult like until she is too old to do it anymore. Then he goes to her and sings the song.