Jonathan Allen (1)Rezensionen

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Picture books for children
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Animals
Foxes
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Mothers and sons
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Loved reading this silly book with my niece! Probably better for home than library, as the animals make louder and louder noises!

Lucy seems very attached to this story at the moment despite the main parental character being a Dad! I wonder what she thinks about Dad characters generally and whether she understands…

A laugh out loud cute picture book about a baby owl who hates that everyone treats him as a cute, cuddly bird instead of a predator. That is, until he is being tucked into bed by his mommy. Wonderful for preschool, kindergarten and first grade read alouds. Like Mo Willems' tales, this one has an epic tantrum that will be fun to act out during story time.

The first part of this is really cute when the hair thinks the baby chick is Santa, but the ending is lackluster. Yes Santa does come but then mom owl doesn’t believe. It was an okay book, but one I feel I don’t need to read again.

On his first day of preschool, Baby Owl is not ready. He tries everything to delay going. He never puts his toys away, but today he does. He also needs to brush his feathers. On top of that, he can't find his backpack! When he finally, finally goes to preschool, he finds that all of his friends are there. In fact, preschool is really fun. It's so much fun he doesn't want to leave!

The Bottom Line: Baby Owl is back in this adorable tale. Large print and charming, colorful illustrations make this picture book perfect for storytime. Highly recommended for kids ages 3 – 6 and for little ones who are reluctant to go to school.

This review also appears at the Mini Book Bytes Book Review Blog.½

This book makes me laugh each time when the solution comes around. That's a good Mom.

My husband and I fight over who gets to read this book when we put our son to sleep. Positively cute!

This is a great book for children to learn about animals and how they survive in the winter. Students can learn which animals do and do not leave for winter and which ones sleep through the snow and which can survive. This book is great read for those interested in animals in their natural environments.

What was once a sleek little cat is now a big, slow, cautious cat. I felt a little worried that the book was just bashing a kitty for getting older and enormous, because one of ours did that, the tuxedo, Calder Eno, and I wouldn't really enjoy fat cat-bashing. But no, that's not what it was on about at all. And I loved the art, because the tux looks so fluffy and cuddly. That is so perfectly valid art criticism, or I suppose, appreciation.

Library copy.

a cute book about a baby owl that goes on a walk in the dark and everyone is telling him to not be scared. and eventually his papa takes him back home and tells him it's okay to be scared.
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This book is about a baby owl that keeps being told he is cute by all the other animals. Baby owl doesn't want to be cute, he wants to be a "huge sleek hunting machine with great big see in the dark eyes". Baby owl goes to his mom concerned that everyone thinks he's cute and his mom says he's not he a "huge sleek hunting machine with great big see in the dark eyes" and baby owl is happy again.
This is a good story because it gives different vocabulary and shows children that people may have different views on the same person or thing. The illustrations are really cute too.

In my opinion, this is an average book. It is good in that the language is easy to read, and the characters are believable. But, the book doesn't have a great plot. The main character is a baby owl and it goes through the forest bumping into other animals that call it cute. It responds that it is not cute, that instead it is a hunting machine. The baby owl takes being called cute as an insult instead of a compliment. After bumping into three other characters, the owl goes back to its mother and explains it's day. The owls mother then proceeds to agree with the baby that it is not cute. And in that moment, the owl realizes it does indeed want to be cute. The main idea of this story is that you don't want to grow up too fast. The owl wanted to be a full grown hunting machine, but it was nice to also be a cute baby.

28 months - who isn't a little tiny bit scared of the dark?

The big idea of this silly book is that things are not always what they appear to be. This is shown through the eyes of a cat owner who is dumbfounded by a “new” cat that has replaced his “real” one, only to find that they are one and the same, but pregnant. I like this book for two reasons. First, the repetitive nature of the writing supports how the story compares and contrasts the owner’s current cat with the one he had. The repeated lines, “Is that my cat? It can’t be,” are followed by different characteristics of the “real” cat. One page reads, “Is that my cat? It can’t be. My cat is a fussy eater who never finishes her food.” The illustration shows otherwise. Second, I like how the illustrations look simple, yet serve to comically enhance the story. At one point, the cat’s owner talks about how his little cat can leap through the cat flap in the door. Meanwhile, the illustration shows a large cat squeezing through the flap in the door; the childlike artwork masterfully capturing an expression of strain on its face.

This is a modern fantasy picture book about a baby owl who is reading a book. A chick comes along and asks if he can sit on his lap while the owl reads. Pretty soon more and more chicks come along until the owl is being squashed and can no longer read. The owls dad and the chicks mom come to help the situation. Eventually owl agrees to read to them if the chicks don's squash him. The chicks sit on owl's dad and chick's mom while baby owl reads them a story.

This book was ok for storytime, a bit long for my liking.

This is another book that is for children just starting school. Baby Owl isn't ready for his first day of pre-k, and tries doing everything else he can think of besides going to school. I enjoyed this adorable book, and would share it with my class on the first day of school. It helps to know that others are nervous their first day as well!

One with a Bun is a very basic counting/numbers board book featuring some rhyming and animals. It's more entertaining than just having the numbers and a corresponding illustration, but it's still very simple and there isn't a storyline. Also, some of the things featured are just strange. For instance, the titular "one with a bun" is illustrated with a polar bear eating a hamburger, a very bizarre juxtaposition. The illustrations are very cartoonish so it's not my preferred style, though presumably it's appealing to the very young. This is certainly an okay addition to a library / lesson on numbers, but it's not the best one out there by far.½

This board book features a number of opposites pairs worked into a little rhyming "story." The book features two cats playing before getting ready for bed and heading off to sleep. I like that the book is short and sweet to hold the attention span of the youngest readers/listeners while still adding a little more than just simply the opposite words side by side as many other board books do. The illustrations aren't much to write home about in my opinion, but they are certainly sufficient in portraying the opposites featured. My toddler class liked this book and it reinforced one thing we always talk about when exploring gross motor skills - head up the steps and down the slide!

In this book, a tabby cat gets dressed one item at a time. Each article of clothing is a different color, which is pointed out in the text (and obviously in the illustrations as well). This was a fun book to share with my toddler class as we talked about colors. It's a very simple and to-the-point book so it was perfect for their short attention spans, but it was also more in depth than other books that simply present the color and have no storyline at all, no matter how basic. The kids really enjoyed it and looked over it several times. As we talked about the colors, it reinforced what they had been learning and they started using the correct sign language for the different colors they saw on the page.½

Too many chicks pile onto Baby Owl's lap ... he can't read!!

I picked up this book because I like puffins, but this one didn't really speak to me.

One afternoon, Baby Owl sits down with the intention of reading a story to his stuffed toy, Owly. When Tiny Chick approaches and asks to listen to his story, Baby Owl is more than happy to include him; however, the storytime quickly gets derailed when all of Tiny Chick’s siblings, cousins, and friends attempt to climb on Baby Owl’s lap to listen to his story. Baby Owl is unable to read the picture book as he is being crushed, and has to ask his dad and Tiny Chick’s mom for help. Allen uses capitalization and punctuation well to convey Baby Owl’s frustration with being unable to read the story. This frustrations culminates in his exclamation of “I am NOT reading!” which is stylistically set apart from the rest of the text using capitalization and boldface. The text, coupled with the range of expression on both Baby Owl’s and the chick’s faces in Allen’s soft, colorful illustrations, will enhance the humor and enjoyment of the text for both adult and child. The simplicity of the story makes it a good choice for very young readers, but I’m Not Reading can be entertaining for all readers.

In this story, Baby Owl, whose illustration is very cute, goes adventuring in the woods. Everyone who sees him stops him, calls him cute, and hugs him. He becomes very frustrated because he does not want to be cute, he wants to be a "huge, scary, sleek-eyed, hunting machine." His mother finds him and comforts him, sending him to bed when he is tired, but right before he drifts to sleep, mama calls him cute for a huge, scary, sleek-eyed, hunting machine. This book has beautiful illustrations and not too many words. It would be great for a preschool aged student. I would use this book in my classroom when talking about how frustrating it is to see ourselves differently from the way other people see us.