These are the 5 picture books I read this week!
Dance is For Everyone by Andrea Zuill
This book is adorable! Just look at that cover! There is a new student in Mrs. Iraina's dance class. A giant 450 lb alligator...The class decides to name her Tanya after a famous ballerina. She is large & it's difficult for all of them to dance together. To solve the problem they create a dance just for her called Legend of the Swamp Queen. The audience loves it! But then Tanya disappears & it's a few weeks before the class gets an invitation. Tanya has gone back home & taught many of the other swamp creatures how to dance & they happily perform for the ballerinas.
Spork by Kyo Maclear
SUPER CUTE BOOK! Spork is a mix...his mom is a spoon & his dad is a fork. In his kitchen people don't mix much, they keep it simple, knives with knives etc. Spork is sad because he never gets picked at the dinner table. One day a big messy thing arrives (a baby) & he likes spork because he is a little bit of both & much easier to handle.
Boo Who? by Ben Clanton
Ben Clanton is one of my favorite chldren's authors, his books are always good. The pictures in this book are adorable because Boo is a ghost so he's either invisible or very transparent. Boo is a ghost & he has trouble fitting in. So his friends don't like him because he can't really play with them. Boo wants to fit in but will there be a game he is good at? One day his friends decide to play hide & seek...it turns out that Boo is very god at that because no one can ever find him!
Tomatoes From Mars by Arthur Yorinks
I thought this book would be like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs & it kinda was...but it was also very weird & the main scientist looks exactly like Albert Einstein. The tomatoes land in Minneapolis, Minnesota of all places! As they land they turn everything red. More tomatoes land all over the country. Scientists are trying to find a way to stop them, maybe through communication, but how? They try to talk with the tomatoes but it doesn't really work out. Then the head scientist named Schtickle tries to spray them with salad dressing to scare them & it works! Soon people all over the country are doing it & the tomatoes go back to where they came from.
The Wizard by Jack Prelutsky
I picked this book up because of the cover & the pictures were amazing! The story is told through poetry. The wizard finds a frog then turns it into a flea, then a pair of mice, then a cockatoo, chalk, a bell, a frog again, then finally it goes away in a puff of smoke. Then the wizard picks a kid down below his tower & turns him into a chameleon.
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