Elisa MarrucchiRezensionen

Another instance of Disney recycling as this is an abridged version of Pooh's Favorite Things about Spring by Kathleen W. Zoehfeld. The art is the same in both books, but one them must have an editorial error as the original attributes the interior art to Robbin Cuddy and this one credits it to Elisa Marrucchi with a Robbin Cuddy cover. Oops!

My original review of Pooh's Favorite Things about Spring: "Another one of those nothing stories where Pooh awakes to the first day of spring and walks around the Hundred Acre Wood singing and meeting his friends one by one before inviting them all to a big picnic party. Ho-hum."

The edits here don't do anything to improve upon the original, and anyone who likes the song Pooh sings throughout will be disappointed to find that this version is missing an entire verse.

(Pooh Project: Phase 2! I've managed to catalog all the shorter Pooh projects my family owns (see the list here). While I work through few remaining longer Pooh books we own, I'm missing my daily dose of Pooh, so I'm going to start seeking out some of the Pooh books I don't own – yet – from libraries IRL and online. See the reviews here.)

Pooh, Piglet and Roo persist in knocking at every door of a house in the Hundred-Acre Wood even though no one is answering. Weirdly, since it is a lift-the-flap book, the reader opens each door for the characters to show no one is there, but they politely do not enter the house to look around, they just go to the next door.

The solution of the missing occupant is pretty obvious from the start for devoted Pooh readers, but it is still amusing to watch it unfold.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )

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I found this book to be a great engaging text for my student at Graceland, who loves princesses! Each page includes one sentence about a different Disney princess and her birthday experience. Every two sentences rhyme and there are plenty of picture clues on each page to help the reader fill in words they might not know or are struggling with. This could easily lead to a writing activity about celebrating birthdays and what the reader's favorite part about his/her birthday is.

This 1st level picture book is great for children beginning to read! The book focuses on birthdays for all the Disney Princesses! The author uses great choice of rhyming words for it to be easy to read. The illustrations are exactly like the Disney Fairy tale movies, its filled with vibrant and bold colors and is neatly drawn and outlined. Great for first level readers. A teacher can use this book for their vocabulary and rhyming. Easy to understand and read.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRINCESS is a picture book for young children just beginning to read. The story itself doesn't seem to have any particular plot. Rather, each page depicts a different Disney princess and the way in which she celebrates her birthday. The illustrations are very colorful and detailed and they look practically the same as the animations in the Disney princess movies. Personally, I didn't enjoy this book very much and would probably choose not to use it in my classroom. The story is only skin deep and therefore I don't think it would be very interesting or engaging for students. However, the text in this book does employ the use of rhyme. So, if need be, I could use this book to show an example of rhyming to a beginning reader.

Normally I don't comment a lot on the Easy Readers that I read (I would definitely have my 300 goal met if I did!) but I felt the need to comment on this one. If there was ever a Disney Princess book that justified the Facebook group "Disney Gave Me Unrealistic Expectations of Love" then this book might be it.

Appropriate grade level for this book would be PreK to first grade, I feel like the children will love this book because it is something that they are familiar with (The Little Mermaid) and it has beautiful colors and big words. This book hasn't received any awards. This book is about Ariel a little mermaid and her friend Flounder who want to play hide-and-seek with a baby seal. While playing, the seal gets caught in a clamshell and Ariel helps him out. Uses in the classroom for this book would be for the children to read it and then talk about how they have helped or been helped by a friend.

I like this book because there is a talking mermaid and she is very happy because the seal likes to play under the sea .The story is more beauitful and is very interesting for children.

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