1. Barack Obama attended Columbia University
2. He was our 44th president and a GREAT one
3. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961
4. Barack means “blessed” in Swahili, an African language
5. Barack shares the same first name as his father so his parents called him “Barry” growing up
6. It usually takes 3 years to get a Law degree but after Obama’s first year at Harvard, he returned to Chicago and got a job at a law firm
7. Had a dream to help the poor
8. Meet his wife Michelle at the summer job and she too was a lawyer and went to Harvard
9. Married Michelle in 1992
10. Barack was a Democrat and was Senator of Illinois which kept him in Springfield, away from Michelle who was in Chicago

Barack and Michelle Obama, both did AMAZING things for our country. Forever miss them being in the White House.

This is a fantasy of a little girl who got the nickname by the red cape her grandmother made for her which she wore everyday. One day her mother asked her to take some bread and cakes to her grandmother since we wasn’t feeling good. For Little Red Riding Hood to get to her grandmothers home, she had to go through the woods to get to her house. As she traveled through the woods, she stumbled upon a wolf. They had a conversation and he tried to convince her not to leave so fast by advising her to pick some flowers for her before she left. As she was picking the flowers, the wolf began to go to her grandmothers. He fooled the grandmother into thinking it was Little Red Riding Hood and than ate her. He dressed up like grandmother to fool Red Riding Hood but she pointed out all the things that was different about grandmother and then noticed it was the wolf. The wolf than ate her also. An awesome woodman than came along to notice the wolf and his big belly. The woodsman cut both grandmother and Red Riding Hood out and saved the day. The End.

This story is very interesting and teaches kids a life lesson to not talk to strangers. Pictures were interesting and helped bring the story to life.

I rate this book a 4 out 5

it’s 3.5 out of 5

Milk and Honey has 4 chapters; The hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing. All 4 have a very emotion twist to the overall meaning of the book. The all represent different situations of pain.

The hurting: this section tells the story of a girl that was raped by an unknown. The emotions that are told through the words she chooses is so real. At moments, I could personally feel her sadness and just wonder who could do this to such a young child (she was only 5 years old when she was raped). Just think of the thoughts and emotions going through a 5 years old head after that happening to her, I doubt she even knows the term rape just yet. She says on page 20 “I’ve had sex, she said but I don’t know what making love feels like”

The loving: tells the story of how the narrator finally fines love within a man. The struggles of how difficult it is at first due to her past with being raped but how this guy makes her feel different and okay. After things are great for a while, arguing starts to happen. The relationship becomes iffy.

The breaking: The relationship became unhealthy. The mother of this girl even told her she deserved better but of course as many women can relate that we never believe we deserve better when in love. Women are blinded by love.

The healing: this section is by far my favorite. It goes in depth about how people go through certain situations but how they heal from it is how they develop as a person. Healing takes time, patience and courage to want to heal. This girl in the story went through more than any 5 year old should ever have to experience so young, yet alone any girl on that note.

As you complete the book, the last pages has a little message from the writer to the reader and then one about the writer, you come to find out the story is the voice of the author, her personal story. Her mother is the reason for her love for drawing and writing. She gave her an artistic journal and told her to draw your feelings out.

I give this book a 5 out of 5. This book gives an excellent story but yet the illustrations make it the story come together and make a beautiful book.

It received #1 New York Times Bestseller so that right here just tells you, it’s a good book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0DHlGwL5s

This book doesn’t really give a powerful message or even a message to relate to at all really besides liking the foods the caterpillar consumes. But it does tell the story of a caterpillar coming free from his cocoon and is very hungry. He breaks free on a Monday and every page is telling the amount of food and what kind of food he consumes that day. Example: one apple on Monday, two pears on Tuesday, three plums on Wednesday, four strawberries on Thursday, and five oranges on Friday, and then, on Saturday, he has an enormous feast with one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. By the end of Saturday, the caterpillar gets ill with a stomach ache from over eating too much. On Sunday, he recovers from a stomach-ache and returns to a more sensible diet by eating through a large green leaf before spinning a cocoon in which he remains for the following two weeks. Later, the “big fat caterpillar” emerges as a beautiful butterfly with large, gorgeous, multi-coloured wings.

I feel like the illustrations were bright and grabs the kids attention and especially with the food. I will definitely have this book in my future classroom just simply because it was one of my favorites and kids tend to love it still to this day.

I rate this book 5 out of 5 because i love it so much and everything about it is awesome!

actual rating is 3.5 out of 5, just like every other book i chose i guess, lol. It’s

This book was published in 1989, OLDER THAN ME!

This book is tells a story of the alphabet which a lot of kids can learn and relate to where at a young age reading this. The 26 lower-case letters climb a coconut tree in alphabetical order, until the tree bends so much, causing all 26 letters to fall out of the tree. Capital letters (the older relatives of the letters climbing the tree) come to help them. Again alphabetically, it describes each letter’s injury, including:

• “a”, “b” and “c” need help getting up
• “d” having skinned-knee
• “e” having a stubbed toe
• “f” becoming patched up
• “g” all out of breath
• “h” and “i” getting tangled together
• “j” and “k” about to cry
• “l” being knotted like a tie
• “m” being looped
• “n” being stooped
• “o” being twisted; alley-oop
• “p” having a black eye
• “t” having a loose tooth

I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 just because these authors and illustrators did a great time at making learning the alphabet fun but yet have a interesting lesson with it.

The actually rating is 3.5 out of 4 by arbookfind.com

Mo is an American writer, animator, and creator of children’s books. Born in Chicago.

This book actually is a Caldecott Honor Book, which is the silver circled one. Meaning it “most distinguished American picture book for children”

Knuffle Bunny is a story of how a kid and his father take a trip to the laundry mat to do their clothes. It takes you on the journey of places they pass on the way. As the pictures show, the kid has a bunny going into the laundry mat but not coming out with it. Either one of them realized until they got home and the mom said something. All 3 rushed back to the mat to see if it was there and surely it was. The family and especially the kid was happy to had found it.

What i found the most interesting about this book is that the story is very simple and to the point but the illustration is AWESOME. The people and the bunny are like drawn but the places they go are pictures of actually places somewhere in the world. I love that, it’s different. I can see why it got a Caldecott Honor award.

I rate this a 4.5 out of 5, the illustrations were awesome but i kinda want the story to tell more.

Patty Lovell taught kindergarten for 14 years and recently moved to first grade. She lives in Glen Cove, New York. David Catrow primarily a writer and illustrator of books for children. This book was published in 2001.

This book tells an amazing story of how a grandma influences her granddaughter to embrace her differences rather than letting people bully her over them. It gives different examples of what she can do or may have that others don’t. Molly goes to school and gets teased by this bully Ronald and by showing him how she embraces those differences, he targets her but then she shuts him down and makes him realize that he is bully her for no reason.

The illustrations in this book are different which makes the story come together. The writer tells the story but the pictures make the story flow better and gets your attention for’sure.

I give this book a 4.5 out of 5 because I love how the writer and illustrator did such an interesting job for kids to relate too but also get the attention of the readers with the pictures.

the actual rating is 3.5 out 4.