Susanna DavidsonRezensionen

Großer Spass - super für Leseanfänger,

This retelling of the classic fairy tale tells the story of the beautiful Rapunzel, imprisoned in a tower by an evil witch.

This book is a real story about a girl who was a Jew and lived through World War II in the annex of a workplace, hiding from the German soldiers who were running up Jews to take to camps to be killed. It has real life pictures of the of Anne and her family and the way they lived during this time period.

I read it aloud to Grandma. Some of the words were a bit difficult but the story was okay.

With over 50 flaps to lift.

Genre: Folklore
Age: Primary
Review: This was a story of Cinderella, who lives with her evil step mother and 2 step sisters. They go to a ball, but don't let Cinderella go. Cinderella has a fairy Godmother, who gets her ready for the ball. Cinderella meets the prince but has to leave at midnight. The prince searches for Cinderella with her glass slipper, finds her, and they live happily ever after. This is a folklore because the story of Cinderella was passed down with word of mouth. The story was originally about a maid who married an Egyptian king.
Comment on use: This could be used to discuss folklores, or how stories have different versions.
Illustrations: Painting

Holly is a young girl who is visiting her great-aunt during summer vacation. At some point earlier in the series, I'm guessing she must have gone exploring or something and figured out how to visit the magical world of Pony Island. In this book, she goes to Pony Island to meet Puck, her fairy pony friend. They're having a picnic together when they hear someone crying for help. It turns out it's a unicorn named Willow who's being attacked by several bad fairy ponies. Shadow, the ringleader, is preparing to do a spell that will give him unicorn powers and allow him to take over Pony Island. He stole the first few ingredients from Willow, and now he plans to trick the Unicorn Prince so that he can get the final ingredient.

I was told it wasn't necessary to read these books in any particular order. A bit of searching tells me that this is probably Book 5 in the Fairy Ponies series, although the only thing I felt I was missing out on was how Holly found Pony Island in the first place.

I bought this for my oldest niece, who has watched a show called Mia and Me on Netflix multiple times. Mia and Me includes elves (whose wings make them look more like fairies, but what do I know?), unicorns, dragons, and a winged unicorn named Onchao. The winged “Unicorn Prince” on the cover of this book immediately reminded me on Onchao.

This is definitely aimed at a younger audience than the stuff I normally read, but I always try to read the books I plan to give to my nieces and nephew. Unicorn Prince had exactly the appeal factors I expected: a girl who could travel to a magical fantasy land, fairy ponies (because a plain old pony or even a Pegasus wouldn't be magical enough), and impossibly beautiful unicorns. Although Holly isn't magical herself, her lack of magical ability actually turns out to be beneficial in this particular book.

I didn't notice any problems with the writing, and the story was easy to follow. I didn't always like the illustrations (Puck occasionally looked a bit odd), but they weren't necessarily bad. The text definitely fits my niece's reading level, and I'm crossing my fingers that she'll enjoy the fantasy aspects here the same way she enjoys them in Mia and Me. That said, from an adult perspective, Mia and Me appeals to a broader age range than this. I actually kind of enjoyed that show. Unicorn Prince, on the other hand, felt too simplistic and flat to me. There was no time to get to know the world and the characters at anything but the most basic level. If my niece ends up liking this and I get the other books for her, I'll read them, but otherwise I'm not interested.

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)

Uses: I would have this available as a resource text in my classroom library.
Medium: photography

Use: I would use this as a mentor text in my classroom to help teach how to use a diagram for writing. It would also be a wonderful resource to have in the classroom library.
Genre: Informational
Media: Photographs

Anne Frank is a normal, free little Jewish girl, until Hitler comes and invades Amsterdam, where she lives. He tries to send all Jewish girls and boys at the age of sixteen (I think it's sixteen) to concentration camps to work and be killed. Anne's older sister, Margot, has had a call-up (a message saying 'GO TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP NOW') and Anne and Margot, their parents and friends, go into hiding at a secret annexe at the back of Anne's dad's office. When the German police find them and take them away to concentration camp, shaving them and making it obvious they were criminals, what will happen to Anne and the rest?

This book was a 'Young Readers' book, and put Anne's diary into summary, but it was all rather well written. I cared a lot for little Anne and the others, and when I asked for Anne's actual diary, my mummy said that it was too sad.

When I visited Amsterdam, I saw Anne's house, and next time I go there I'd love to go in it. When I learn about the Second World War, I will read her real diary.

A fun retelling of The Princess and the Pea. This is a great chapter book for early readers. One of my favorite features are the speech and thought bubbles added to the watercolor illustrations. It adds a fun, modern twist that kids would enjoy.

The character traits and sequence of events in this book are very black and white, yet entertaining. This book would be great for studying character traits or sequence of events.

I gave it five-stars because it is well-written, entertaining, nice to look at, and would have high kid appeal. A down-side is that it is bright pink, which I imagine would scare away young boys and maybe some girls.

My copy did not have the CD included.

Mary, a young girl orphaned at an early age, is forced to move to England to live with her uncle, Mr. Craven. She does not like there and feels very alone. Mr. Craven spends most of his time away on business leaving Mary with the rule to not enter any other rooms of the house. As time goes on Mary begins to wander. She first finds a secret garden. Next, she decides to wander the house, discovering a young sick boy named Colin Craven. We learn that Colin is unable to walk and that his dad, Mr. Craven is ashamed of him, which is why he spends so much time away. As the story goes on, Mary finds the key to the garden and fixes it up with the company of Colin. When Mr. Craven returns, he is surprisingly pleased to see his garden blooming and his son's health improving.
This story taught me that disabilities should not be looked down upon. I immediately felt so terrible for Colin when I learned of his father's feelings towards him. All Colin wanted and eventually needed was for someone to actually enjoy his company and spend time with him. The story is a great way to show that everyone deserves to be treated and cared for with love no matter what their circumstance may be.

This book tells you about animals and their habitat. It also gives you the location of certain animals. This book is great. I recommend this book to people who like nonfiction and are animal lovers.

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i like this book too

i like this book

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This book is about the life and experiences of a young girl who survived WWII.

S says: In the beginning, the Canterville Ghost was mean and tried to scare everybody, but the Otis family was too brave to be scared by the ghost. I would say it would a little too scary for a preschooler or kindergartner, but first graders and up will probably really like this book.

The little red hen was looking for juicy worms, and she made bread from wheat by herself. Friends fink out on her, such as a glossy cat, a noisy duck, and a brown rat could not eat the appetizing bread.

This book is so long that I was tired to read it. But the story is very good! Rapunzel was lock into a tower by wicked and powerful witch. A young prince tried help her, but the two got separated by an act of the witch. Although the prince keep on searching her, they met again of fate.

This is a fictional fairy tale. The illustrations are done in watercolors. The content of this story is about a young girl who is caught in a storm and seeks refuge in a castle. The prince and his mother place a pea under twenty mattresses to see if she can feel the pea and prove she is a real princess. The girl awakes in the morning with a terribly sore back and a bruise. She proved she was a princess and married the prince. The reading level of this book is from second to fourth grade. Some curricular connections could be sensitivity, princesses, and fairy tales.

This story's animal are wonderful.

I like it because she's a princess and she has a good imagination.

Josh and Katie