“Chopsticks” written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Scott Magoon, this book is about a two chopsticks that never split up. In this story chopsticks never split up because, well they couldn’t. If they did split then they would be able to do anything. But since they always were together the chopsticks had no personality. Then the next day one of the chopsticks broke it leg, so he went the doctor to get it fixed. That day when he got his leg fixed both chopsticks decided to take a day apart from each other. For that one day both chopsticks did their own things a that created personalities. I would suggest this book for primary students. I really liked this book I think it taught a good lesson about being yourself. Overall I really liked the book it taught a good lesson to be yourself and not what your somebody else is.
“Spoon” written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Scott Magoon, this book is about being grateful and be thankful about what you have or do. In the story there is a cutlery world, the spoon is jealous of all the other cutlery like the fork he thinks its so cool to be him because he can do lots of things he is also jealous of the chopsticks and the knife. Spoon keeps complaining to his mom then on the next page its shows fork complaining to his mom about how spoon can do everything and chopsticks are also complaining about spoon and how he can so everything same with knife. So spoons mom said to him be grateful for what you have because lots of people don’t have what you have. I think this story is aimed at the primary grades, the moral of the story is to never complain about what you have because there are always people who have it less then you. Overall I thought this story was ok, it wasn’t my favorite but it still was good.
Today in are picture book blog we read a book called “Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind The Nobel Peace Prize” by kathy-Jo Wargin and illustrated by Zachary Pullen. This book is about Alfred Nobel and how he made dynamite. In this book Alfred and his brothers first made nitroglycerin which is a type of explosive, he wanted to use nitroglycerin to make roads and help mine. But in the workshop where they worked on it which killed 5 people and one of Alfred’s brothers died his name was Emil. After that Alfred wanted to make a new safer version that wouldn’t explode unexpectedly. So he made dynamite but people used it to kill people that’s not what Alfred intended to do he wanted it to help mine and make new roads. After that Alfred was very sad two years later Alfred’s brother Ludvig died but in the news paper they mistakended it has Alfred, in the description it said the man who created explosive for war is dead, that made Alfred very sad. A few years later Alfred died, in his will he gave a little bit of money to family and friends but the rest went to a organization that he founded called the nobel peace prize, people who get this prize have to make a huge discovery in science and more. This book is aimed at all ages. Overall I really enjoyed reading this book I thought it was really interesting I would suggest this book to lots of people.
“I Used to be a fish” illustrated and written by Tom Sullivan this book is about evolution through time but in a much simpler way. In this book the character started as a fish in the ocean. Then he evolved to a amphibian that could live on land and water. Next he evolved to a lizard that could basically just walk on land. Then there was a more evolved lizard that had fer and could camouflage. He ran into predators and almost got eaten. Then he started to look more and more like a human, he started to build houses and then cities till now 2018. I think this book is leaned toward kids that are in primary grades. I liked this book it was a good lesson and i liked how they over simpilized evolution in a quick picture book. Overall I thought this book was educational and a very interesting book.
