Kirei's comments (member since Sep 29, 2007)

Kirei's comments from the Children's Books group.

I loved Betsy, Tacy, and Tib when I was little!

Marv looks good. I have never heard of it.

Wow, those are a lot of samples! I can see a sample with my kindle, but not that much. Thank you very much.

I can get 13 Bobbsey Twins books on my Kindle for 2.99. That is a great deal.... except I have never ever read them. Are they good? I also want to know if they are racist (I have heard they are) and if so, can that be easily editted it out?

Since it is on kindle, I would be reading it aloud. My child would not actually be reading it.

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Silly Tilly is good for a vegetarian family. I can't remember why but it must be true, because that is what I wrote in my review. lol

We also have Franklin's Thanksgiving. I gave it four stars. We might have more in our bookcase, but I haven't gotten them out yet.

We have: Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving at the Tappletons
Arthur's Thanksgiving

I don't know if any of them are great though. Cranberry Thanksgiving is supposed to be really good, but I believe it is out of print.

You are right. There is a real lack of Thanksgiving books.

We read two Halloween books with bullying issues in them: "The Worst Witch" (chapter book) and "Lulu Goes to Witch School" (Easy Reader)

There is Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper. It is about three animals that are making pumpkin soup. It is not Halloween related.

The Cricket in Times Square, of course!!!! :-)

Do you know the story? It is about a boy who has a cricket as a pet. The cricket can make beautiful music with his wings.

Evelyn's recommendations are good. A lot of those easy Berenstain Bears' books are great, like "Old Hat New Hat" & "Bears on Wheels"

Plus: Go Away, Big Green Monster (Students can participate by telling the monster to go away)

The David series is good for English learners because you can elicit from the students what is David is doing wrong in each picture


"Ten Apples Up On Top"


"We're going on a Bear Hunt" is really good.

Most lift the flap books are good (like "Dear Zoo" or Karen Katz books) are good because the students can guess what is under the flap.

"From Head to Toe" by Eric Carle allows students to do the actions.

"Joseph had a Little Overcoat" is an award winner. It allows the students to guess what he turns his overcoat into on the next page.

Another option is to get a book illustrated to a common song (such as by Iza Trapani) Then after you read it, you can sing the song and do the actions with the children.

(The recommendations I gave assumes the students are at a very basic English level. Otherwise, I would go for higher level books.)

Jake Drake, Bully Buster

Ah, I really like that show. We have a few espisodes on videotape that I recorded off the tv. I do have to say that I don't really think it was one of my son's favorites--it has an old-fashioned Mr. Rogers feel? I don't think it can quite keep up with the faster moving shows with animation and puppets (in his mind.)

When I see Levar Burton, I think of Star Trek. :-)

Not a funny book--but we checked out her "The Tomten" from the library. Well, I didn't like it because it was so weird. But then I researched on the net and a tomten is from Swedish folklore. So it made sense.

I have ordered her "Happy Times in Noisy Village" book and hope it will be fun!

I thought of another one: Harry by the Sea. I plan to read Harry the Dirty Dog tonight, then check out Harry by the Sea from the library.

We have Mister Seahorse--that is a good book, too. Also, Swimmy, although I am not fond of that.

Time of Wonder comes to mind. I can't say I liked it much, but it has really good reviews. It was either a Caldecott winner or Caldecott Honor book.

This is our other 4th of July book: http://www.amazon.com/Pledge-Allegiance-... It just has the words to the Pledge with pictures of America and multicultural kids. It is a very nice book and worth the price.

We have Biscuit's Fourth of July. It is very cute. However, I just checked amazon and it is no longer for sale! Sellers will sell for over thirty dollars, on ebay it was over thirty dollars! What is up with that????
I feel like I have a valuable treasure on my hands now!!!!!!! I wonder what other books will increase in value?

I've never read it but there is "Oliver Button is a Sissy."

Also never read it but the "Franny K. Stein" series is about a girl who is a mad scientist. We own some of these books and I can't wait to get to them.

Again I've never read them, but there is the "Pinky and Rex" series. Pinky is the boy and Rex is the girl.

Reinforce gender roles??? I can think of too many to list. All the boys and dinosaurs, all the boy detectives and scientists, all the blond princesses

Shannon's post reminds me of a classic: "The Boxcar Children" totally reinforced gender roles!!!! It is a very old book though, so I forgive them. lol

Thank you! That is great! I typed in "World according to Humphrey" and got book 1, "Friendship According to Humphrey" is book 2. Then I randomly chose "Surprises According to humphrey" which is book 4.

I just started The World According to Humphrey (read aloud to ds). He picked it out at the bookstore, not me. So as I read, it feels like a sequel. But nothing on the book says it is. So I look on the Internet trying to figure out the order of the books. I guess it is the first one and Friendship According to Humphrey comes next.
It took me a while to figure that out!

I've accidentally read sequels before, not realizing they are sequels. I wish publishers would clearly mark the order of books.

LOL I was getting ready to comment because I just finished reading Dr. Dolittle. But I was looking at your comments and was wondering, "Did we read the same book?"

Then I realized that you are all the reading "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" and I read the first book in the series "The Story of Doctor Dolittle."

FWIW, I didn't like it at all. Not at all. (I read the original, racist version. There is another revised version that most people read now.)