Curtis ManleyRezensionen

Independent Reading Level: Grades K-2
Awards: 2019 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award and 2017 Freeman Book Award for East and Southeast Asian Children's Literature

If you're searching for a Goldilocks science book for kids, this one is JUST RIGHT! Sorry, that is corny. But true! Lucid explanations of astronomy are just one piece of the puzzle. This book also tells an everyday story in the pictures -- a family visiting a science museum -- which serves to connect the book to the lives of readers. I also love additional facts in sidebars, captions, and endpapers. And beautiful illustrations. I think this will work for ages 5 to 10.

As a librarian, I'm peeved with the publisher Macmillan right now over their ebook embargo. I would like to say they stink. At the same time, this book rules.

A nice update to a story I remember from my childhood, and beautiful illustrations.

Genre
Picture books for children
STEM fiction
Tone
Amusing
Writing Style
Attention-grabbing
Illustration
Cartoony
Subject
Girls
Individuality
Insects
Rescues
Spiders
Worms
Character
Courageous
Quirky

There are many questions about the universe, so everyone has to wonder if there’s life out there! Accompany a curious little girl as she goes through a parallel similar to Goldilocks, learning what conditions a planet needs to be just right to contain life!

This precious story is about a little boy named Nick who decides to teach his cats how to read. The author and illustrator really captured the innocence and pure imagination of children through this story. This story can encourage children to read and want to learn to read. In the story, one of Nicks's cats, Vern, stays up at night even when Nick is sleeping just so he can practice reading! They really depict the value of reading in this book in a fun way for children! Good for primary students.

This book is adorable. I loved it. So sweet and don't we all wish our cats could read? Highly recommend.

Did the cats really learn to read? Who cares! This book is absolutely unique and delightful. Plus Stevenson, the cat who refuses to read with the scowl on his face for most of the book is my new favourite.

Having always spent as much time as he can with his two cats, Verne and Stevenson, the eponymous Nick decides one summer that he will teach them to read. His efforts seem futile at first, but his patient persistence pays off, and soon Verne is a library card-carrying bibliophile. The grouchy Stevenson remains more difficult to persuade, until Nick and Verne discover his stash of drawings, and realize that he loves pirate tales. Soon Stevenson too is bitten by the reading bug...

A sweetly engaging tale from debut author Curtis Manley is paired with fun, appealing artwork from illustrator Kate Berube in The Summer Nick Taught His Cats to Read. As someone who was a bibliophile and library lover as a young child myself, as well as a devoted cat person, I was tickled by Nick's efforts to share his passion with his best friends. I appreciated the way in which he altered his teaching approach, in order to reach his "students," and I found the cats' expressions (especially Stevenson's!) amusing. I don't know that I loved this one quite as much as the friend who recommended it to me, but I certainly did find it enjoyable. Recommended to all young cat lovers and bibliophiles.

This book is about searching for life in planets other than earth. Scientists have been curious about life on other planets for a long time. This book asks readers the same questions that the scientists have grappled with. What would extraterrestrial life be like? What would we do if we found extraterrestrial life? This book also introduces the idea of exoplanets, stars, and how scientists discover more information about them. The book has blurbs about the different strong telescopes that help astronomers discover more about stars and planets. This is a good book because the illustrations tell a story. The main character is also a person of color with complex thoughts who does intelligent activities, which is notable. I would read this book as a read-aloud in a unit about space, earth, or scientific discovery. This is a great book to teach how scientists ask questions.

Thanks to Goodreads friend Kathryn for recommending this book to me!

This is the first time in a long while that a picture book not by Patricia Polacco has become a favorite picture book of mine.

Charming, sweet, funny book! It’s delightful!

I loved the cats. Not for the first time I wish I had a cats shelf. Verne and Stevenson are great cats. I love their expressiveness and distinct personalities. Their facial expressions are priceless and just looking at them had me smiling. They act like real cats but I love Nick’s interpretations of their actions. I loved the bond between Nick and Verne and the one he has with Stevenson too.

I appreciated how the story showed how reading can fire up our imaginations.

I loved how the story subtly showed learning differences, not in a qualitative way at all and I loved Nick’s patience and persistence and sense of fun as he was teaching his cats.

I loved the place the library has in this book, cat patron card and all.

This is a perfect book for children who love books & reading, kids who have challenges learning to read, reluctant readers, kids who love cats. I also highly recommend it to all teachers & tutors and parents and all people who read to and with children.

It’s beyond adorable. I can’t stop grinning.

I recommend this to all readers who can enjoy children’s picture books, especially those who particularly like cats, teaching, and of course books & reading.

5 very full stars!

An African-American girl looks out her window, dreaming of what's in the sky... and the book segues into an exploration of the search for exoplanets and the science surrounding space and the stars. The book alternates between nonfiction and fiction, introducing astronomers and scientists of the past and analyzing what makes a planet habitable - and for what type of life forms and then switching to the girl and her sister and parents visiting a museum an exploring these concepts and questions further.

There is back matter, including an extension of the science behind finding exoplanets and more information on carbon-based life forms as well as a list of further reading and resources. The book is written simply, in a way that young children can understand, but also offers room for older readers to investigate the concepts further and think more deeply about the subject.

Lanan's watercolors show a realistic picture of a family exploring the wonders of science as well as imagining galaxies and planets beyond our reach. Smaller sections of text explore some concepts in more depth although they can sometimes be hard to decipher against the colored backgrounds.

Verdict: Whether or not you're adding to your space titles, this is a strong selection that not only explores a fascinating topic but encourages creative thinking and scientific questioning.

ISBN: 9781250155337; Published January 2019 by Roaring Brook Press; Borrowed from another library in my consortium

Nick does all his favorite activities with his cats, except they aren't interested in his books. He decides to teach them how to "read" so that they can enjoy books as well. It takes a little longer for one cat over the other, but eventually they are both won over and love to hear stories.

This was an adorable book with lots of clever jokes hidden inside for adult readers to enjoy along with their kids. (For instance, the cats are both named after famous authors and the books they read are tailored to their namesakes.) The gentle watercolor illustrations perfectly capture summer days, and it's great to see a child of color as the protagonist.

My 8-year-old niece and I read a big pile of books together and this was the one she kept wanting to come back to over and over again. A great read for kids and adults who love books and/or cats.½

This was quite an enjoyable book. The illustrations were rich, absorbing, and a bit surreal. The text was rather good.

A book about the history and science of the cosmos with a poc protagonist.

In this book, readers will follow Yasuhiro, a boy out gathering firewood for his dad when he notices an injured red-crowned crane and gently rescues it. When a girl, Hiroko shows up the next day looking for shelter, Yasuhiro and his dad welcomes her in. Yasuhiro and his dad are poor and so the girl, Hiroko offers to weave silk to raise money so that they can have enough to eat. When the money is easily earned, Yasuhiro’s dad becomes greedy and demands for more. The girl asks Yasuhiro and his dad to promise not to open the door until she finishes weaving the silk, but the dad grows impatient and opens to discover a surprise. I love that this book introduces friendship, kindness, greed, the obligation to repay, and a little magic.

A boy saves a crane from a trap and later a stranded girl comes to ask if she can stay the house of the boy. The father agrees. They are not rich and the girl offers to weave for the family but makes them promise not to open the door of the room she is in while she is working. The father becomes greedy and demands that she work harder than she is able. He opens the door on her and reveals the crane. She leaves and the boy follows her. He too turns to a crane and they live together peacefully.

Nick tries to teach both his cats how to read. One of them is stubborn and takes some coaxing.

While gathering wood, a young man comes across a white crane whose foot is caught in a trap. He releases the bird and watches it fly away. The next night, a mysterious girl knocks at his families door asking if she could stay. When the girl notices the father struggling to make money, she offers to weave silk for him to sell at the market. After he makes more gold by selling the silk than he could make in months working, he becomes greedy. Eventually the girl is so weak and exhausted she must return to her life as a crane, but is happily joined by the boy who saved her.

In this story a boy saves a crane who comes back as a girl to help his family. In the end, he turns into a crane to be with her. It has a sweet ending filled with love.

the illustration of this book draws the attention of readers. The theme of this book is kindness and compassion. Its also respect, greed, impatience and friendship.

Yasuhiro discovers a crane caught in a trap. He lets the crane free. Shortly after, a young girl, Hiroko, shows up at his home, asking for a place to stay. His father, Ryota, agrees. Yasuhiro and Hiroko become friends and he tells her about his mother's loom. Hiroko says she can spin cloth for them to sell, but they must not look at her while she's working Her cloth earns them lots of money and Ryota becomes greedy and lazy. He forces Hiroko to spin more cloth even though she is weak. This leads to an amazing discovery, and one that will test the bond of love between Hiroko and Yasuhiro.

Nick tries different tactics to get his cats interested in reading, in a classroom setting I can see explaining that everyone has different interests and that while some may find one type of book interesting, it may be different for another. In finding out Stevenson's interests, they are able to get him on board...this book was adorable.

Nick loves to read and he also loves playing with his cats Verne and Stevenson.The cats are never happy when he turns his attention to books so he comes up with the idea that maybe he can teach them to read. He finds words they will like such as nap, mouse and fish. Verne seems interested but not the other cat. Nick takes Verne to the library but Stevenson hides under the porch away from them. Nick eventually finds Stevensons interest in pirates from his drawings under the bed. Once the cats both listened to him read, they would play games like pirates together. They play all sorts of games from the books that they have read together. Sometimes the cats even crawl up with their own books.