Yoga Adventure!
by Jamaica Stevens, Roco Alejandro (Illustrations), Jamaroo Kids (Performance)
Children go on a journey around the world, visiting different animals and doing yoga poses in exotic locations. First we do a plane pose to travel to a new continent. Then we do a warrior pose with bison, and bicycle to a new place where we meet chinchilla doing happy baby pose. We stretch like grey wolves, pandas, frogs, and koalas. We sail the seven seas and hop on board a train.
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A child is warned not to touch a butterfly because a catastrophic sequence of events could unfold if the butterfly makes a flower petal fall on a dung beetle, whose ball of dung rolls onto the dam and causes an overflow of water to flood a mole’s underground home, forcing the mole to escape his home by biting the butt of a bear who was sitting on the entrance. The bear runs haywire, causing damage on a massive scale! All because of one little butterfly.
This book is really funny and I loved the cute illustrations! Each page is colorful with energetic artwork. It really brings the comedy to life in the book!
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Sense and Sensibility
by Stacy King (Goodreads Author) (Adaptor), Po Tse (Illustrator), Jane Austen (Original Author)
I loved this manga adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic story! The manga follows the original story pretty closely, and the artwork is beautiful.
There’s a lot of crying in this book! I mean, I suppose there’s a lot of crying in the original story too, but seeing almost all the characters constantly collapsing into violent tears, hysterics, and/or fits of depression was over-the-top dramatic. Then again, Marianne Dashwood is the epitome of drama! haha!
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As the reader explores the ocean, you see a whale, an octopus, squid, seahorse, lobster, sea turtle, and many other marine animals right down to the tiny plankton. There is an information page at the end of the book that tells more facts about each animal.
I liked the art style in this book! The pages are very colorful, and all the animals are so beautiful!
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The Dancing Trees
by Masiana Kelly, Michelle Simpson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)
Thomas brags about how he could survive in the wild, until his friends tell him to prove it by spending the night in the forest with only a backpack. Thomas litters his candy wrappers in the forest, picks the bark off the trees, and makes a mess of his campsite. The trees notice. In the night, the trees move around so that Thomas becomes lost. The only way he will find his way home is if he learns to respect nature.
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Cress Watercress
by Gregory Maguire, David Litchfield
After her father dies, Cress and her family move to a basement apartment in an oak tree. Her mother struggles to pay the rent, and Cress is annoyed by the snooping neighbors. The landlord is a grumpy owl, and a large family of squirrels make a great deal of noise. But they all join together when danger is near.
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Gloria’s Porridge
by Elizabeth Laird
5 out of 5 stars
In this Ethiopian folk tale, Gloria is making a pot of porridge, but the cat eats it all up! Gloria chases the cat, who runs into the donkey, who bumps against the tree with a beehive. The bees fly around in a panic, startling the hen who drops all her corn. Everything is chaos! Only the fox can make sense of what is happening and make them all stop and calm down.
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Wolverine (Animals Illustrated)
by Allen Niptanatiak, Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall (Illustrator)
This book contains interesting information about wolverines, their habitat, their hunting areas, and their young. There are two to three paragraphs of information in each section, giving tidbits of information like how the wolverines survive by scavenging behind other predators or sometimes hunting for themselves. There is even a section about how Inuit tribes will use wolverine fur to line their clothing and make warm mittens.
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Zoom Farm Adventure
by Susan Hayes
Bo goes on an adventure at the farm! He feeds the animals, harvests vegetables and fruit, milks the cows, and collects honey from the beehive. The goats escape from their field, and he has to round them up again by feeding them raisins. He loads up his crop onto the big farm truck to take his harvest to the market.
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Quizás…
by Chris Haughton (Goodreads Author)
A tres monitos se les dice que no vayan al árbol de mango porque hay muchos tigres alrededor. Pero dicen que “quizas” estaría bien solo mirar el árbol de mango. Y tal vez estaría bien comer solo un mango. Pero rápidamente aprenden que la situación es más peligrosa de lo que creían, ¡y hay tigres acechándolos por todas partes!
-Keep Reading for the Review in English!-
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