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Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnee

Allan W. Eckert

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

One of the best 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This is one of the best books I have read that is factual. Anyone that reads this book will get a real education without propaganda on the life and ways of the early Native American and how they were treated. Only one book better by the same author that I have read 5 times is The Frontiersman. If you get Blue Jacket, The Frontiersman is a must have too.

Excellent Book Shows the Other Side of the Story 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I ran across this book while researching the story of Mary Neely's capture by the Shawnee, and I found it fascinating that a white settler would actually seek to be captured, embrace the Indian way of life, and eventually become the Chief of the Shawnee Nation. Allan Eckert writes this book without lecturing, but you get a real sense of the injustice that was done to these tribes and the multitude of agreements that were signed that were not worth the paper they were printed on. The book is written simply and straight-forward enough to use at middle school or high school level, but it contains enough factual information to be of use to adults as well. Eckert writes the story in an entertaining fashion also, which makes it easy to keep reading. I only wish it had been longer.

The Middle Moffat

Eleanor Estes

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and she isn't the oldest-she is always just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery ... the mysterious "Middle Moffat." But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks.
In between not rescuing stray dogs, and losing and finding best friends, Jane must secretly look after the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury...so he can live to be one hundred. Between brushing her hair from her eyes and holding up her stockings, she has to help the girls' basketball team win the championship. And it falls to Jane-the only person in town with enough courage-to stand up to the frightful mechanical wizard, Wallie Bangs.
Jane is so busy keeping Cranbury in order that she barely has time to be plain old Jane. Sometimes the middle is the most exciting place of all....
Eleanor Estes's beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers.

Rufus M.

Eleanor Estes

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A second grader says please read this book 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

The story Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes is about a kid named Rufus Moffat. Rufus has some trouble sometimes, but he practices until he gets it right. Rufus writes his name like this: Rufus M. Sometimes Rufus gets trapped, but he finds his way out. Sometimes Rufus can get rough. Rufus M. is also clever. He also makes up imaginary friends. One time he makes up the invisible piano player. Rufus is almost unbeatable.

Rufus acts like a seven year old. That's why I think he's a seven year old. Rufus writes his name sloppy at first. Then he practices and practices and he gets better and better. He gets better at doing tasks that use to be hard. Rufus is a great kid, unlike any other (no offense). This is the story how Rufus became unbeatable.

The characters are Rufus, Sylvie, Jane, and Joe. Rufus has messy hair, he is seven, and he is rough. Sylvie is nice. She is also clever, and she is about nine. Janie is a girl who is clever, but not exactly as clever as Sylvie. She has a crush on a friend of hers. She is eight years old. Joey is Rufus's brother and he is nine years old. He likes to play with Rufus and he is rough like Rufus. I believe in the chacracters of the story and I am interested to find more about them. I can picture the individuals in my mind. They get on with one another by playing with each other. I like Rufus best because he is funny.

The author is a good writer. She uses words like "urge" and "dozing." Her writing would make me imagine the story even if there were no pictures. The author treats me like a big kid. It is like it is written by an expert. I think the book is great. The cover also looks great. It makes me want to read the book right away. It urges me to talk about it to my friends. The pictures are interesting and they make the story better. The printing is pretty small, but the words are easy to read.

The book is great in my opinion. I would suggest boys ages seven to nine and girls eight to eleven would enjoy it. I give this book five stars.

Editorial Review:

You've never met anyone quite like Rufus Moffat. He gets things done, but he gets them done his way.
When he wants to check out library books, Rufus teaches himself to write...even though he doesn't yet know how to read. When food is scarce, he plants some special "Rufus beans" that actually grow...despite his digging them up every day to check on them. And Rufus has friends that other people don't even know exist! He discovers the only invisible piano player in town, has his own personal flying horse for a day, and tours town with the Cardboard Boy, his dearest friend-and enemy.
Rufus isn't just the youngest Moffat, he's also the cleverest, the funniest, and the most unforgettable.
Eleanor Estes's beloved Moffats stories are being published in new editions as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. The original interior illustrations have been retained, but handsome new cover art by Tricia Tusa gives the books a fresh, timeless appeal for today's readers.

Nuts to You!

Lois Ehlert

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

My four year-old picked this book out and loves it! 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 9 people found this review helpful.

And, so did our puppy (she devoured it) that's why we are buying another. It's well worth the money, and Amazon.com has the best price around. This a a great book for little kids who love animals. The pictures are colorful and the text is simple and catchy.

Nuts for Everyone! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is great. It tells the story of a boy who has a squirrel come into his room through a hole in a window screen. The story isn't too wordy, and you can get extra info on plants and animals throughout the story in smaller print. The book is funny also, which parents and children should enjoy. Wonderful illustrations.

Editorial Review:

It's summer in the city, and a rascally squirrel is up to all sorts of tricks. But when he sneaks inside an apartment window, he'll need one nutty solution to get back out!

Labels identify plants, birds, and insects on each page, and a glossary at the back of the book offers factual details about squirrels. One of her youngest and most popular titles, Nuts to You! is Lois Ehlert at her high-spirited, breathtaking best.

The Witch Family

Eleanor Estes

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Review from a 6-year old Estes fan 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

The Witch Family is about two girls who while drawing witches pretend to banish the head witch, also known as Old Witch, to a glass hill because she is very wicked. If you multiply the "Old" with one million, you get some idea of how old she was! The girls also let Old Witch do her abracadabra so that she can have a witch girl named Hannah and a witch baby. Old Witch gets to be wicked only on Halloween. At the end, the two girls take pity on Old Witch and turn the glass hill into a real hill with grass. After that, Old Witch is not wicked anymore except on Halloween. I think this is a good book to read on Halloween.

Sweet, but avoid the TOO-sweet audio version!! 4 out of 5 stars.
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The Witch Family is nice, non-scary magical tale with more heft than contemporary "Color Fairies"-type books. It's a sweet, old-fashioned book -- but heavy emphasis on the sweet. It's the sort of book where things get called by kiddie mis-pronounced names like "noo-doos" for noodles, over and over again. When you're reading to yourself, or reading aloud, that can be part of the charm. But when your kids are listening to 5 hours of audio book on a long car trip, you have to hope that the narrator doesn't lay it on too thick.

As it happens, this narrator lays it on triple-thick: syrup on top of honey on top of sugar. Every single sentence, happy or not, is pronounced with a huge, honey-dripping smile...for 5 hours straight. I grudgingly gave it 4 stars because my girls did enjoy it, and they're the target audience in the end. But as an adult, it was flat-out excruciating.

Editorial Review:

Old Witch, Little Witch Girl, Weeny Witch, and two real girls in a fantasy that blends the worlds of reality and imagination. A Halloween classic about the power of make-believe.

The End

David LaRochelle

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Stories for Children Book Review 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

What a fun book this was to read! A "backwards" fairy tale! Award-winning Minnesota author, David LaRochelle, started at the end of his fairy tale and it became the beginning of the book. Quite frankly, I was skeptical if this idea would actually work. But it does work, and it even flows extremely well. It's also quite an interesting story to read if you are looking for a really good fairy tale that's packed with an excellent storyline and really fun illustrations.

We have a princess, a knight, lemonade, a dragon, a hungry giant, a flying teacup, a huge tomato, and the cutest bunnies you ever saw (the bunnies are
on almost every page) and even a blue-colored, flying pig!

This is a must-read fun fairy tale for you - from the beginning, which is really the end, to the end, which is really the beginning! Confused? Don't worry - you won't be. This book is really slick!

Caldecott Medal winner Richard Egielski did an outstanding job of illustrating this delightful fairytale with his humorous touch. (Note the funny faces on all the trees!) David La Rochelle's magic mind and way with words created this terrific story. On the back flap of the book, David reassures his young readers that he has never been afraid of bunny rabbits, but... he is concerned about any tomatoes that are taller than he is, and...David is very tall. Richard says that he enjoys a cold lemonade on a hot day (much like the princess in the story perhaps).

Editorial Review:

"...And they lived happily ever after."  
So begins David LaRochelle and Richard Egielski's wacky original fairy tale THE END, which traces the courtship and marriage of a handsome knight and a beautiful princess . . . backwards! Before we reach the beginning, we meet a temperamental giant, a beleaguered cook, a dragon who's scared of bunny rabbits, an oversized tomato, and an impish figure on a flying pig who just might be the cause of all the madness. It's a conventionally perfect and perfectly unconventional take on the fairy tale - guaranteed to convert the Grimmest reader to giggles.

Feathers for Lunch

Lois Ehlert

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Beautiful little charmer 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Another favorite of my 3 1/2 year-old daughter, along with "Top Cat" by the same author. Hmmm...is it possible that Top Cat or his little brother is the cat in "Feathers for Lunch"?

That aside, the pictures in this wonderful book allow a child a good first look at several North American birds, and the text introduces your child to their birdsong. All the birds are "drawn" (I believe they are actually designed by paper cut), to actual life-size.

Great bird book 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This is a wonderful little book for children to learn some common American birds and their calls. The story is about a cat trying to catch a bird for lunch but the bell on the collar keeps giving him away, hence "feathers for lunch" but the illustrations are almost all birds such as the Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, Morning Dove, House Wren, Northern Flicker, etc... My little boy actually likes Ehlert's "Top Cat" better, but this story has seen many readings. My boy can tell the difference between several birds that he sees in his backyard. Recommended for the little birders.

Editorial Review:

An escaped house cat encounters twelve common birds in the backyard but captures only feathers for lunch. Includes bird guide. “Destined to become an uncontested favorite with many children and adults.”--The Horn Book

Incident at Hawk's Hill

Allan W Eckert

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Total reviews: 56 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Encore 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

This little boy was stranded all alone out on the prairie, and the only other helpful being there was a badger. Ben, a 6 year old boy can act like animals as if he was their brother. He picks an animal, then can follow it for hours acting like it, and making noises like it. But one day, when he was mocking a chicken he wandered too far. When he noticed it was about lunch time he turned back to go home, but there wasn't a house in sight. Clouds rolled over and a thunderstorm broke out. Ben raced around for cover. He tripped in a large tunnelish hole in his scurry. Without further ado he wrenched himself in. The next morning, he dug himself through the rest of the tunnel, to find himself in a huge chamber, and to his surprise there was a badger there. Throughout the next two months Ben lived with this badger, acting like it and becoming more like it everyday. When his brother finally found him though, he was reluctant to go home. Later after he realized where he was, (home) his badger came back, who he saved by throwing himself over her before she was shot by his father. The next day while the badger was chilling in the sun by the house, the mean neighbor arrived, thinking that the badger was trespassing, he shot her. When he was about to burry her, he realized that she was still breathing, taking her back in the house, Ben could only hope that she would live. This book was filled with action, fun times, and sad events.
There was for sure a ton of action. Ben was here, Ben was there, where wasn't he? His badger would be trapped, she would escape, and then Ben would get lost. Later Ben would be found, but his badger pops in, what doesn't happen to Ben anyway?
This book had many, many fun times in it. Ben would dance around after discovering that she's breathing (the badger). And then Ben would jump for joy that he lived, because of the wonderful badger.
Even though this book was good, it was very sad. The badger's pups died. Ben almost died from starvation before the badger helped him. The badger's mate dies, and then the badger almost dies herself.
I really enjoyed reading this book, and I think anyone could too, for it was sad, yet happy, and filled with action!
Anne.L.

Editorial Review:

A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger.

Knight's Castle

Edward Eager

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A good place to start with Eager 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

...This is a simple little tale of a group of children who discover a little bit of magic in an old toy soldier. In Eager's work, magic has fairly strict rules (in _Half-Magic_, the charm granted any wish--but only in halves), and here the rules work as a kind of companion to the idea that magic can only work if you continue to believe in it (that is, if you start to think of the creatures you are interacting with simply as dolls, they revert to being dolls again). The plot achieves its urgency through a possible problem in the family, but, with a little help, everything can be solved. A little more moralistic and straight-forward than some of his others, but well worth reading--especially if you've never tried Eager before.

Attention history and fantasy lovers! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Four children and a magical toy castle, what could happen? Everything! When Ann and Roger visit their cousins in Baltimore, Roger is given a toy castle, with toy figures from Ivanhoe and other legends. But the tables turn when they find they can become part of the world that Robin Hood, Rebecca, and Maurice De Bracey inhabited. Can the children solve the problems that they cause as they change the plots of these famous stories? If you like history, and fantasy this book is a definite read. I absolutely adored it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Editorial Review:

Roger, Anne, Eliza, and Jack find a magic way to go back into the time of Robin Hood, Rebecca, and Ivanhoe.

Ve, Perro. Ve!: Go, Dog. Go! (Bright & Early Board Books(TM)) (Spanish Edition)

P.D. Eastman

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Just Fair 3 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

The tense forms of this book make for an awkward read. There are better simple board books. A better book is Good Night Moon (Buenas Noches Luna).

Great for Spanish Speakers, not to teach Spanish 3 out of 5 stars.
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This is a really great book, and my children love it in English. In Spanish, it just doesn't present enough vocabulary, and the verbs are all in the command form, which is a pretty complex tense. I would choose a simpler book for toddlers or young children. If you want to TEACH Spanish, and not just read to them and hope for the best, a good interactive workbook is Flip Flop Spanish, which includes a CD.

My son's favorite book 5 out of 5 stars.
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What do you get when you combine cars, dogs, Spanish and books: A book my two year old loves and I love to read to him. Its a classic in English my only complaint is there are not enough good translations or original books like this to keep our Spanish library stocked with fun interesting titles that I don't have to make up the words for. A must have.

Editorial Review:

Motley mutts ride bikes, trikes, skates, skis–you name it–to attend a party in a tree.