Picture book

first book of your ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ series. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, even though it was my second time reading it. Throughout the book, I appreciated the definitions of the words along the way, which helped to understand the book. I also admire the excellent description used throughout the series, which really made me visualize the story, and paint a picture in my head. The plot was fast flowing, not dwelling on a certain feature for a long time, which made the book…

For my independent reading I choose the book, Pretties by Scott Westerfeld. This is the second book from the series called, Uglies. I read Uglies during my eighth grade year and I loved me. It was a very intriguing story and I knew that if I had to do another independent reading, I would select the second book and I did. The first book mainly focused on how life was like being an “Ugly” and the anticipation of teens turning 16 having the options of doing an operation to be pretty and get to live…

long ago, but the first books I read were books with pictures and very little words. In about the second grade I started reading The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne up until halfway through the fourth grade. The next series of books I fell in love with was R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps series, which lasted throughout the sixth grade. In middle school, I started to read J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. My favorite types of books are book series. I do enjoy books that don’t have…

to a group of five second graders. In my group, there were two boys and 3 girls. In order to find the perfect book for the read aloud. I used reading surveys and interview questions to find the right match. I gathered a few different resources and ideas to create a survey for the children. The survey was called “What do you like to read about?”. The survey had varied genres and pictures to match, allowing the students to circle or color the genres they enjoyed reading. The first two pages had…

forms of communication in this world. Pictures. Sign language. Even everyday actions are a form of language. In the 1450’s Johannes Gutenberg had changed history forever with his invention the Printing Press. Gutenberg had gotten encouragement when he learned that the Chinese had introduced woodblock printing. Gutenberg thought of using metal letters instead so the printings would not wear out overtime. It was a success and by 1600 more than 200 million books had been printed with the Printing…

you know. The children were young at the time, they had lots of ladybird books, and the quality of illustrations in some of those was very high. So for a while I was uneasy, these pieces were very much admired in a way, but I was thinking I’m becoming “an illustrator”, you know? Everything is so real, there is something more in me than just concocting these images, like the Elvis Presley picture, and the “Southill Salome” picture. And as a consequence I stopped. I didn’t stop…

Books, Pages, What a Wonderful Thing (Comments on Three Favorite Books from AP Lit. First Quarter) Remember of a time, you first explored the Earth, all those others humans were so much bigger than you. There were scratches all over the walls, on paper, even on your television screen. Yet, one fateful day you began to decipher these strange hieroglyphic type symbols and discovered all these stories with them. What was the first words you read, novel you completed. All throughout life you will…

Author Summary Priscilla cummings is the author of many bestselling books. She since she was a little girl always enjoyed reading and writing. She has been an author since 1986 when her first published picture book Chadwick the Crab was released. As of 2012, she has made twenty–one book’s and currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland. She also has two cats both of Author Accomplishments • ABA Pick of the list for Fall (1997) • Maryland Black-Eyed Susan list (1999-2000) • American Library…

just maybe, fire isn't exactly what everybody thinks and knows it to be. In the book “fahrenheit 451” fire is one of the main and many issues throughout this book. As you read this book you will see that throughout fire is mentioned in many places at many different times in the book. Characters will be introduced throughout, such as our main character Montag, Beatty, and Clarisse. Fire has a huge symbolism in the book, Montag changes his thoughts and views on fire, and phoenix has both…

Although many grow up loving books and visits to the library; not many grow up truly obsessed and willing to do anything to read. In her autobiography author Eudora Welty recalls her early experience with reading and books, and how it shaped her into the author and reader she is today. One of them being her visits to the library, and her encounters with the intimidating Mrs.Calloway (the librarian). The second being her mother, an avid book lover who inspired her. Through the use of language and…