Join Jack and Annie as they travel back to meet Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. The book provides a thoughtful and engaging look at one of AmeriJoin Jack and Annie as they travel back to meet Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. The book provides a thoughtful and engaging look at one of America's most beloved presidents. The mix of historical facts and adventure makes it both educational and entertaining. This is ideal for young history buffs and fans of the Magic Tree House series.
Dion is doing a race across the Gobi Desert where he meets an unexpected 4-legged friend. Dion grows fond of his friend and names her Gobi after the dDion is doing a race across the Gobi Desert where he meets an unexpected 4-legged friend. Dion grows fond of his friend and names her Gobi after the desert she was found in. Although this is a very condensed version of the story (there is a full version available for adults!), it is the perfect true story to share with young kids who are looking for adventure, friendship, and teamwork.
I have followed Gobi's story for a while and the book is very well done and the illustrations are brilliant!
Highly recommend for any dog fan, 5 out of 5 paws! ...more
“If hope is a thing with feathers, then libraries are wings.”
Despite her circumstances, Emily Dickinson tended to write poems of promise and assurance“If hope is a thing with feathers, then libraries are wings.”
Despite her circumstances, Emily Dickinson tended to write poems of promise and assurance; One of those is titled “’Hope’ is a thing with feathers.” That Katherine Rundell has extended Dickinson’s thought to libraries being wings has everything to do with the sun-bleached library of her childhood in Mount Pleasant, Haare, Zimbabwe, where school finished at midday after which she and her friends were free to run barefoot to any place their bare feet could take them, including up the nearest trees. When she was fourteen, her family moved to Belgium. Shoes as a “given” was a culture shock and found her somewhat at a loss. In an interview with The Guardian, Rundell said, “The only time that kids fully understand the world they inhabit is when they read, the rest of the time the world is so large and so frayed at the edges.” In this book Rundell explores the world at large with all its frayed edges. But this book brings young readers within reach of understanding the way the world works. There is a reason Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms features a young girl growing up barefoot in Africa only to find herself negotiating her place and identity in a European boarding school through forces no child controls. Rundell wrote it in her early 20s when her original title was The Girl Savage. Philip Pullman places Rundell “unarguably in the first rank” of children’s authors. She is also a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and an award-winning author of a non-fiction book on John Donne. What is most important however, is the ease with which she slips back into her childhood and the value she mines from her experiences. Have no doubt, Rundell includes the magic of childhood in writing the world’s frayed edges. Will, Rundell’s heroine in Cartwheeling, is not one to take loss and culture shock sitting down; At the top of a tree in a monkey cage at the London Zoo, or hiding out in the garage of a boy her own age (the result of a chance meeting at the zoo) – all while on the run from her boarding school – definitely. But not quietly and rarely sitting down. Discovered in the garage, she finds a grandmother and has the foresight to listen to life’s hard-won lessons. This is a children’s book about resilience and learning. -Steven S.
Scottsdale Public Library
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