Roni SchotterRezensionen

Independent Reading Level: 2nd - 5th grade
Awards: Parents Choice

Reading Grade Level:‎ K - 3
Parents Choice Gold Award (2006)

Grade 1-4-Schotter blends magical realism with a tongue-tingling narrative to create an ode to the power and purpose of language. Selig is passionate about words-their sounds (tintinnabulating!), their taste (tantalizing!), and the way they moved his heart. An avid word-hoarder, he delights in discovering new terms, recording them on paper scraps, and stowing them in pockets. Unable to comprehend their son's strange predilection, his practical-minded parents worry about his future, and his classmates cruelly add oddball to his collection. After dreaming about a Yiddish Genie who advises him to embrace his passion and seek his life's poipose, Selig embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Feeling weighted down by his vocabulary slips, he climbs a tree and carefully attaches them to the branches. Fantastically and fittingly, several of them blow into the hands of a poet who is struggling for the right adjectives to finish his verse. Selig realizes that his mission is to bestow his word wealth upon others. He tosses out luscious to accentuate a baker's wares, halts an argument with harmony, and invigorates an elderly man with spry. He grows up to find personal fulfillment and even true love. The author shares her own affection for language through the descriptive, lyrical text, italicizing particularly delectable but possibly unfamiliar terms and defining them in a two-page glossary. Potter's folk-art paintings echo the story's whimsy and set the action in an idyllic-looking, early-20th-century past. An inspiring choice for young wordsmiths and anyone who cherishes the variety and vitality of language.

Ruby Rubenstein owns and works at a produce stand in the city selling fruits and vegetables. He is a married aging man with a wife. He gets up every morning to arrange the stock and converse with the community. He is loved and respected within the town. Sun Ho is a boy who greatly admires the work of Ruby, and watches the work of Ruby. Ruby starts to feel old and wonders if he and his wife should move away and sell the stand due to age and health. Sun Ho takes over the stand when Ruby became ill, and even Sun Ho's father helped. The community joined together and worked to help. Ruby and his wife finally decide it is time to move away, and Sun Ho now becomes a "Fruit and Vegetable Man". It is a little sad, but it is realistic. I enjoy the sense of community within the book bridges cultures within a community. This author seems to use the common theme of helping and loving your neighbors.

The story is told in first person by a little girl, her name is never given. She lives in an apartment building in a city. It is a little run down, with chipping walls, and a little aged with time and wear. Her family calls the place "The House of Joyful living". The other families of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds all get along and spend time on the weekends upon the roof. There is a strong since of bonding and accepting in this book. The little girl is struggling to come to terms with the arrival of a new baby into her life. She is a dynamic character and she soon welcomes the new baby into the family and as part of their community.

I love love love this book! It is so cute and sweet. It honestly made me think about my mom and how I should do more for her. This little girl wants one thing and that is to see her mother smile. This book has so much meaning and I think it is wonderful for kids because they might get the same feeling as I did. They may realize how amazing their mother is and that they want to see their mom smile too. Everything about this book was great. The author did a wonderful job of telling this cute story.

Selig collects words, ones that stir his heart (Mama!) and ones that make him laugh (giggle). But what to do with so many luscious words? After helping a poet find the perfect words for his poem (lozenge, lemon, and licorice), he figures it out: His purpose is to spread the word to others. And so he begins to sprinkle, disburse, and broadcast them to people in need.

Eva sits on the front stoop of her New York walk-up, a notebook perched on her lap and a cinnamon danish to fortify her at her side. Her teacher has instructed her to “write what you know”. That’s Eva’s problem: what she knows is that nothing ever happens on 90th Street. As she sits, though, neighbouring merchants, cooks, and artistic tenants emerge from buildings and shops. Seeing that she is writing, they offer her advice. The out-of-work actor, Mr. Sims, tells her: “All the world’s a stage” and each has his role; she needs to be attentive to the actors on the stage before her. Alexis Leora, a sad-faced dancer, who likes to do her warm-ups on the stoop stairs and sidewalk, suggests that she stretch her imagination. But it’s kind Mrs. Martinez, who offers her a bowl of her homemade soup, that really gets the ball rolling. “Spice it up!” she tells Eva. “Add a little action!” So Eva does—first to real life, then to her story.

To amuse a little boy being pushed in a stroller, Eva tosses pieces of her cinnamon bun to the pigeons. Mayhem ensues. The little boy drops his red ball, which rolls into the street, causing a cyclist to fall, and a traffic jam. The result? All the people who live, work, and walk on the sidewalks of 90th street get talking. There are a few little problems to be solved. Is the cyclist okay? What about the little boy’s ball—can it be retrieved? And what to do about the cat who has leaped from his human’s arms?

In the end, of course, the problems are solved, and Eva has it all down on paper for posterity. Who said nothing ever happens on 90th Street?!

Schotter’s lively picture book with its angular off-kilter illustrations is a kind of kids’ guide to making it happen in writing and in life. The book appears on many lists of recommended books for language arts. I understand why: it is fast-paced; it has colourful, distinctive characters; the vocabulary is rich and sophisticated; and, finally, it gives some good advice to young writers.

It’s not exactly my type of picture book, as it feels just a bit too contrived and educational. Nevertheless, I can see that it would have its uses, and it is well done for the sort of book it is.

Rating: 3.5½

I absolutely love this book! I connected with this book so much because I am very close with my grandmothers. This book discussed the many different grandmas I know about. I call one of my grandmothers Mame and the other Mawmaw. Both of my grandmas are cooking grandmas and one is a tickling grandma too!

The hardest about wiring is the first sentence , which is the most important one. Once you get the first sentence right , the rest will follow. Eva was trying to finish a homework where she had to write about whats going on on her neighborhood, however to her she was not paying attention to her surroundings the right way.She could not start writing until she took matters in to her own hands. . Even though someone may be living in time square , yet life could be very boring to them unless they decide to take an action. I believe this will be a great book to introduce to students during ELA. It gives students an insight about writing and their surrounding. We all live in a wonderful world , no matter where you live there is something amazing always happening.

Use with students to encourage them to develop stories based on what they see around themselves.

A cute story about a little boy asking questions about preparing for passover. The last pages of the book is the story of passover. Great for early readers.

Luisa's mother is always working to one day be able to afford for Luisa to go to college. It is apparent to Luisa how much her mother sacrifices to make her life better and so she decides that for her mother's birthday she will throw her a surprise party. Secretly inviting all of her mother's clients at the salon and setting up getting her mother back to the salon for the party she is able to give her mother the world for a wonderful night.½

I did not like the plot of this book. I felt like it dragged on, and they could have ended the book a lot sooner. I got this book from a public library, and it doesn't just have the E on the spine of the book, it has ES. I tried to look it up, but I couldn't find what it meant. All I know is that this book is not suited for young children. There are tons of words in the book that teachers wouldn't even be able to begin to describe to their students. Honestly, I'm wondering if this book would be best suited for high school students. I'm just having trouble with trying to figure out the point of this book. I did enjoy the ending of the book and how Selig found someone to love who complements him with her music. It was also nice to see on the last page of the book that the two of them were sitting in a tree together and there were three children playing on the grass grabbing words and music notes flying in the air. I can only assume that these children are supposed to be their children.

Despite thinking that this book shouldn't be used in teaching young children, I believe a teacher could come up with a good writing prompt that would go along with this book. The teacher could have the students state and describe the meaning of their favorite words and use these words to write a story about whatever they want.

Beautiful book about a little girl who wants to see her mother happy, Luisa sets out to plan a surprise for her mother that has been working hard just so she can make her happy
5 and up
Pierce CC

Hanukkah traditions highlighted in rhyming text. Large format picture book.

What a delightful book!! I had fun finding a word I'd never heard before along with some delicious favorites. I have to say the Djinn who spoke verbatim like an old world Rebbe tickled me the most though! Thrilled that his words were spelled phonetically which helped with my "poppy" accent!

This book is about a boy named Selig, a collector of words. He shouted out words as he heard them. He was misunderstood by his classmates and parents. They thought he was odd. He had a dream with a genie where he decided he was determined to find his purpose. On his journey he decided his mission was to share his words with others.
This is a book about Selig who teaches students about words. He is called an oddball by his classmates, which other students may relate to. The book teaches children numerous words and their definitions. It tells students that sharing their words with others is important.

Luisa sees that her mom really never smiles and is working all the time. Luisa takes it upon herself to plan a surprise party for her mom at her work. She gets everyone to help her. The night of the party she sees her moms smile and it makes Luisa happy and feel good.

Age:6-8
Source: In Class Book Share

In, Mama, I’ll give you the World, Luisa analyzes her mother’s facial expressions and notes that she rarely sees her smile – she interprets this and decides to plan a surprise party to make her mother happy. This story encourages children to watch the facial expressions of other in order to verify how they are feeling, not only momentarily, but over a long period of time. This children’s book also describes a love for diversity – the child takes time to notice how unique and special all of the different people are. Mama I’ll give you the world, is a relate-able model for children which showcases how to analyze emotions, value diversity and be prosocial.

Age: 4+
Source: Pierce College Library

A mother works in a beauty salon and her daughter wants to give her the world on her birthday. She decides to throw a surprise party that includes dancing, which her mom loved doing. Louisa invites all of her moms clients and they throwing a great party and her mom smiles for the first time in a long time. Ages 5 to 8 years old. Pierce college library and in class presentations.

The mother works in a beauty salon and the dad had passed away. Since the death of his father, the mother has been very sad and stopped smiling. The mother loved to dance when the father was alive. Louisa planned a surprise party and the mother smiled for the very first time since. Also danced with Louisa for the very first time since.
Ages: 5 and up
Source: In class presentation

single mom works hard to save up money for daughter's future college needs. Says she wants to give her daughter the world. For the mom's birthday, the daughter organizes a community birthday party in an attempt to give her mother the world. Ages 5-8. Lots of words on a page.

Everyday after school, this little girl goes to where her momma works and its a beauty shop! Her momma works hard to provide for her and to save up money to get her to college one day. Momma wants her daughter to give her the world. Like all moms usually do. Luisa the daughter plans an amazing surprise birthday party to show her mom how much she means to her. I believe this story is important because the people who support us and our dreams are the only people you can always count on. But you have to show them you appreciate them which is the most important part.

In my opinion, this is a great book, but at times it was a tab boring. Although the message behind the book was very sweet and sentimental, I think it was a little drawn out. I think if I were to read this to my class, it would not take long for them to lose interest. However, the characters in the book were very well developed, and you truly got a sense of how much Luisa and Mama loved each other. Luisa was a young girl who would go to her mother’s work after school. Her mother was a hair dresser at Walter’s World of Beauty. Her mother would make everyone feel beautiful, but Luisa noticed that there was always sadness in Mama’s eyes. Mama did everything for Luisa, including saving all the tips she could for Luisa to go to college and see the world. Luisa sees how much her mother does for her, and to show her how much she cares about Mama, Luisa has a surprise of her own. The beautiful illustrations add to the book in many ways. They focus on all of Mama’s favorite customers, and paint a picture of all the people that care about Luisa and Mama. I think something else to highlight is the layout of the book and how there were mini illustrations to look at on each page. I thought they were interesting because they brought a sense of creativity and individuality to the book. The book also portrays the life of a single mother, and hints at the fact that Luisa’s father must have passed away, leaving Mama to raise Luisa on her own. Mama wants a good life for Luisa, and works hard for Luisa to be able to see and do all that she can; Mama wants to “give Luisa the world”, but for tonight, Luisa will give her Mama the world.