Ok GO-By:Carin Berger

OK GO was a very simple book. There were only a few words that made up the whole book but they were emphasised very well. It showed what going green was by using pictures, rather then words. The pictures were very cute and were created out of recycled materials like papers, magazines, newspapers and tickets, as the author explains at the end of the book. There is a flap at the end that the reader opens up and it has cute rhyming phases about going green like "Ride a bike, Mike and Ike". I thought the creatures that made up the book were very imaginative and their facial expressions on each page were very cute. There were a lot of little details to pick up on within the pages. There wasn't a lot of words, but all the detail made up for it. It would be a quick book to read but something that kids would get a lot of enjoyment out of by just looking at all the pictures because the detail fills all the pages.

One-By:Kathryn Otoshi

I thought this book had a great moral story about bullying and it would be great to read with little kids to help teach color and number recognition, but I thought that the illustrations were very bland and boring and consisted of a lot of paint blotches. I think there would be a lot more interesting ways she could have done the illustrations. I liked how the text was emphasised through out the book. The colors were bold and typed in the color that was personified and size was emphasised with the font size bigger and smaller. I don't see this book being checked out very often by children because there aren't any pictures in it (just blotches and numbers) and the cover is very plain and no matter what others say...I definitely believe that children judge books by the cover.

Two Bobbies-By:Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery; Illustrated by Jean Cassels

This book was a cute, sappy, true story about a cat and dog and Hurricane Katrina. I thought the illustrations were really good. They caught my attention first. They were very realistic, showing the damage from the hurricane like the debris, the stray painting on the houses and broken windows. I liked how the book was based around the cat and dog and very few people were in it. There was no dialouge, which I thought made the book a lot more realistic-just the straight story and the facts. Hurricane Katrina caused a lot of problems within the community with stealing and vandalism and I am glad that the authors didn't add those kind of details in, because that would have made the story too complex and not as happy. At the end of the book it gave a little debriefing about where the two animals are now and a real photograph of the dog and the cat. I thought that was cool because a lot of people are still greatly impacted by the Hurricane aftermath and people that don't live in the area don't understand that people are still getting back on their feet four years later.

The Year of the Dog-By:Grace Lin

The Year of the Dog was a very quick read. The chapters were very short (only about 4 pages long) and each chapter was a different story in Grace's life. There were little drawings on the sides of the pages and every so often Grace (the main character) would add a story related to the chapter that another person had told her. It reminded me of a diary because it was about her own feelings and opinions and finding herself. The story was based within a year and was very progressive. The part I enjoyed most was that the main character didn't always get what she wanted and things didnt' always go her way, like in many children's novels I have read. Grace explained a lot of Chinese traditions and how it was to be a minority living in the United States. She explained a lot of confusion that she felt being Chinese-American. I think it was a great book for young girls to read but I wouldn't suggest it to a male beceause it was from a female point of view and very girly.

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