Chicken Sunday
by Patricia Polacco
32 Pages
This book is about a little girl who had “adopted” a lady as her grandmother. The lady’s name was Eula Mae Walker. The little girl wanted to save her money to buy a really nice gift for Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Walker really liked to wear fancy hats to the chicken dinners that were held every Sunday so the little girl planned to go to Mr. Kodinski’s shop and buy one for her. Well, one day a group of evil little boys through eggs at Mr. Kodinski’s shop and Mr. Kodinski believes that Winston and Stewart, and the little girl were the ones that trashed his store. The three children want to prove to Mr. Kodinski that they are innocent so that he will allow them to purchase a hat for Mrs. Walker. The three children decorated what they call Pysanky eggs and gave them to Mr. Kodinski. He realized that the children were innocent and decided to make them a deal on a hat for Mrs. Walker.
Personal Rating- 3
The pictures in this book are amazing. I wish the story was better though so that it did the pictures some justice. The book had a good meaning to it, but I found it to be boring.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Thunder Cake
Thunder Cake
by Patricia Polacco
32 Pages
This is a story about a little girl and her grandmother that decide to bake a cake. They are not just baking any ordinary cake. They are baking Thunder Cake. The little girl is very nervous about the storm that is approaching and the grandmother explains to her that this weather is perfect weather for baking this cake. The grandmother explains to the child that when you see lightening, you are supposed to count up until you hear the thunder. This tells you how many miles away the storm is. The storm starts ten miles away. The storm grows closer as the two gather their materials to make the cake. In the end, the girl ends up not being afraid of storms anymore.
Personal Rating-5
This is another one of my favorite books because it gives the idea that everything is safe in grandma’s arms. Grandmothers just have a way about them to make everything seem less scary. I like how the grandma distracts the little girl from the storm and teaches her about the history of Thunder Cake. It is one of life’s lessons that she will remember forever and be able to share with her children and grandchildren.
by Patricia Polacco
32 Pages
This is a story about a little girl and her grandmother that decide to bake a cake. They are not just baking any ordinary cake. They are baking Thunder Cake. The little girl is very nervous about the storm that is approaching and the grandmother explains to her that this weather is perfect weather for baking this cake. The grandmother explains to the child that when you see lightening, you are supposed to count up until you hear the thunder. This tells you how many miles away the storm is. The storm starts ten miles away. The storm grows closer as the two gather their materials to make the cake. In the end, the girl ends up not being afraid of storms anymore.
Personal Rating-5
This is another one of my favorite books because it gives the idea that everything is safe in grandma’s arms. Grandmothers just have a way about them to make everything seem less scary. I like how the grandma distracts the little girl from the storm and teaches her about the history of Thunder Cake. It is one of life’s lessons that she will remember forever and be able to share with her children and grandchildren.
Pink and Say
Pink and Say
by Patricia Polacco
48 Pages
Sheldon Russell Curtis is a soldier fighting in the Civil War. He is injured in the battlefield and is laying on the ground in a great deal of pain when Pinkus Aylee comes to his rescue. Pinkus took Sheldon to his mother’s house in order for him to get well. Sheldon recovered from his injury. In the meantime, it grew very dangerous for the two boys to be staying at Moe Moe Bay’s house (Pinkus’s Mother) because the war was going on and it was just not safe for the family to have the two boys there. One day, the boys were getting ready to leave the house to go back to the war and mauderer’s shot Moe Moe Bay. The two boys were captured and taken to Andersonville where they were kept as prisoners of war for the rest of their days. They nicknamed each other Pink and Say.
Personal Rating – 5
I had never read this book until now. I really enjoyed it. It was an account written about the Civil War that was “kid friendly”. This would be a good book to use in an early elementary classroom to teach students about the war. The pictures were really amazing as well.
by Patricia Polacco
48 Pages
Sheldon Russell Curtis is a soldier fighting in the Civil War. He is injured in the battlefield and is laying on the ground in a great deal of pain when Pinkus Aylee comes to his rescue. Pinkus took Sheldon to his mother’s house in order for him to get well. Sheldon recovered from his injury. In the meantime, it grew very dangerous for the two boys to be staying at Moe Moe Bay’s house (Pinkus’s Mother) because the war was going on and it was just not safe for the family to have the two boys there. One day, the boys were getting ready to leave the house to go back to the war and mauderer’s shot Moe Moe Bay. The two boys were captured and taken to Andersonville where they were kept as prisoners of war for the rest of their days. They nicknamed each other Pink and Say.
Personal Rating – 5
I had never read this book until now. I really enjoyed it. It was an account written about the Civil War that was “kid friendly”. This would be a good book to use in an early elementary classroom to teach students about the war. The pictures were really amazing as well.
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