Sunday, May 6, 2012

picture book 25


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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. 

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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.

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Author- Judith V. 
Title- alexander and the terrible, horrible no good, very bad day
Illustrator- 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


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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. 

Friday, April 6, 2012

Picture Book 21 Consider Love

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author: Sandra Boynton
illustrator: Sandra Boynton
date of publication: 2002
genre: realistic fiction
themes: love
summary: love can come in many ways, shapes, sizes and forms. This cute book shows us just how many ways. 


Picture book 20 Without You

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author: Sarah Weeks
illustrator: Suzanne Duranceau
date of publication: 2003
genre: Facton
themes: motherhood, animals
summary: this is a cute little book that talks about penguins and how they lay eggs and what happens to the babies. 

Picture book 19

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author: Julie Sykes
illustrator: Jane Chapman
date of publication:1998
genre: fiction
themes: Friendship, teamwork, playing
summary: smudge was playing outside with his friends when it started raining. They tried to find a place for them to hide and get dry but they all couldn't fit! smudge tried to go inside but the door was shut. they looked and looked and when smudge finally found a way inside it stopped raining.