Stephanie St. PierreRecensioni

In this easy-to-read introduction to relational concepts, Big Bird and Elmo discover that sometimes it's not easy being big and sometimes it's not easy being small. But sometimes it is!

This is a pop up book about counting. It has a poem counting down from 10 to 1 as Lassie looses sheep in various ways, and then at the very end, back to 10 as she finds them all.

Like you would expect for a pop up book, production value is good. Also, as you would expect for a pop up book meant for small children (a counting book!), this gets tore up. It has some lift the flap activities, and then it has pop ups that are not meant to be touched.

There are 12 pages - one for loosing each sheep, and then a two page spread for finding all the sheep at the very end.

Art style, presentation, and all is intended as a run of the mill counting book for little kids. It's not an artist's rendition and not meant for adults. It was released when fancy pop up books with an artistic slant were a trend, but it's really truly just a plain vanilla kids counting book with simple illustrations. Production value is higher than art and writing.

For me, I didn't care much for this book, but the little one loves it for it's tactile quality and the fact that two of her 'toys' are in the book and she loves to point them out.

The Adventures with Barbie series was originally published in the early 90's and has since been reissued in a variety of countries with various reading orders - sometimes under the same names but not always. In Australia, this series was reissued as Barbie Sweethearts and featured covers with Barbie dolls. The series follows Barbie on her every day adventures featuring recurring characters, different careers, new places and friends and some mysteries. Barbie always has a smile and is always willing to lend a hand, making this a perfect series for tween readers.

In Wildlife Rescue Barbie, Ken and Kira go to Africa to photograph the endangered animals for a charity calendar but on their first night they run into trouble from poachers. Jim, their guide, explains that the poachers hunt the local wildlife, in particularly targeting elephants for the ivory that their tusks are made of. The gang see first hand how this affects the elephant families when they find a baby elephant wander into their camp - dusty, injured and hungry. When the poachers won't stop coming after the baby elephant, Barbie comes up with a plan to poach the poachers.

I enjoyed this one. It's a bit more intense than the others in the series. It reminded me of Holiday in the Wild on Netflix (great film btw) - but without the romance and humour. Well it had a little humour I guess. My rating 3 stars. Target audience, 4 stars.

The Adventures with Barbie series was originally published in the early 90's and has since been reissued in a variety of countries with various reading orders - sometimes under the same names but not always. In Australia, this series was reissued as Barbie Sweethearts and featured covers with Barbie dolls. The series follows Barbie on her every day adventures featuring recurring characters, different careers, new places and friends and some mysteries. Barbie always has a smile and is always willing to lend a hand, making this a perfect series for tween readers.

In Soda Shop Surprise, the gang are all helping Midge get ready for the grand opening of her new shop when she breaks her leg and has to spend the days leading up to the opening in the hospital. Barbie steps in to make Midge's dreams come true - unfortunately everything that can go wrong does and Barbie is left to constantly come up with new solutions.

This one was alright. Obvious, straight forward, nothing unexpected. Quick easy pleasant reading. Midge tells Barbie off for going ahead and organising solutions Midge wasn't even consulted on and I couldn't really blame Midge either. Yes Barbie was helping her but it was still Midge's dream and it's kind of hard to realise a dream you're not actually involved in. Still, that said I always enjoy Barbie's creative solutions to all the problems they encounter.

Target audience 4 stars, my rating, 3.

The Adventures with Barbie series was originally published in the early 90's and has since been reissued in a variety of countries with various reading orders - sometimes under the same names but not always. In Australia, this series was reissued as Barbie Sweethearts and featured covers with Barbie dolls. The series follows Barbie on her every day adventures featuring recurring characters, different careers, new places and friends and some mysteries. Barbie always has a smile and is always willing to lend a hand, making this a perfect series for tween readers.

In Wildlife Rescue Barbie, Ken and Kira go to Africa to photograph the endangered animals for a charity calendar but on their first night they run into trouble from poachers. Jim, their guide, explains that the poachers hunt the local wildlife, in particularly targeting elephants for the ivory that their tusks are made of. The gang see first hand how this affects the elephant families when they find a baby elephant wander into their camp - dusty, injured and hungry. When the poachers won't stop coming after the baby elephant, Barbie comes up with a plan to poach the poachers.

I enjoyed this one. It's a bit more intense than the others in the series. It reminded me of Holiday in the Wild on Netflix (great film btw) - but without the romance and humour. Well it had a little humour I guess. My rating 3 stars. Target audience, 4 stars.

The Adventures with Barbie series was originally published in the early 90's and has since been reissued in a variety of countries with various reading orders - sometimes under the same names but not always. In Australia, this series was reissued as Barbie Sweethearts and featured covers with Barbie dolls. The series follows Barbie on her every day adventures featuring recurring characters, different careers, new places and friends and some mysteries. Barbie always has a smile and is always willing to lend a hand, making this a perfect series for tween readers.

In The Mysterious Dude of Ghost Ranch Barbie goes to her friend's ranch and discovers mysterious ghostly things happening and they investigate to find the answer. It's fairly obvious - there's nothing overly complex or unexpected. It did seem to be a little bit stilted towards the end. It was kind of like the mystery didn't seem to provide enough content so the author threw in more drama regarding the trees and foresting. And it wasn't really explained well as to why any of it happened. Then again we're talking about a kids book in 64 pages so you know.

It's not my favourite Barbie book. My rating 1.5 stars. Target audience, 3 stars.

The Adventures with Barbie series was originally published in the early 90's and has since been reissued in a variety of countries with various reading orders - sometimes under the same names but not always. In Australia, this series was reissued as Barbie Sweethearts and featured covers with Barbie dolls. The series follows Barbie on her every day adventures featuring recurring characters, different careers, new places and friends and some mysteries. Barbie always has a smile and is always willing to lend a hand, making this a perfect series for tween readers.

In Dancing the Night Away, Barbie is asked by her friend Christie to plan a Dance-a-Thon for Children Charities annual fundraiser. But Lynn Madison is not happy with Christie's choice and is determined to cause trouble if she can't be the star of the show. Barbie's roped everyone she knows into helping and everything is going well until her checklist is stolen and things start going wrong. First the food turns up early, she almost forgets to pick up the awards and she twists her ankle while rehearsing. She knows Lynn was the one who took her list and Barbie decides to kill her with kindness to get things back on track.

I didn't hate this book but Lynn annoyed me - the logic behind Lynn's actions was just dumb. If she wanted to be on stage dancing - why didn't she volunteer to do that? And her comment about not wanting to do the hard work while Barbie gets the applause was ridiculous. I'm not sure she understands what being in charge requires because she follows that comment with "If I can't be the star, then why should I do anything?" - maybe because it's a charity event and your job? Maybe because being a star of the show and being in charge are two different things?

Still, Barbie solves the issues with tact and diplomacy. I liked how she gave Lynn an out to hand the list back without confronting her and I thought it was smart to keep Lynn occupied so she couldn't cause any further trouble. And I enjoyed the way she used their food trip to drum up interest in the Dance-a-Thon.

Target audience 4 stars, my rating, 3.

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This is great to teach different sizes of different objects. using familiar characters.

In this oh-so-easy-to-read introduction to spatial relationships, Big Bird and Small Bird discover that sometimes it's not easy being big and sometimes it's not easy being small. But sometimes it is.

This is a good book for the very young reader to get into. Especially if they are into Sesame Street Characters. You would think by the title that this is a story about Big Bird's problems being too big. But in actuality what the book is about is comparisons between big and small.

See? Not only does Big Bird have problems because he is too big, but Elmo has his own problems as well because he is too small. The book then goes into detail about comparing Big, Bigger and Biggest as well as describing Small, Smaller and Smallest.

So, other than the title being a little off in regards to what the book is really about, it still a good read for the youngsters. The print is a good size for them to follow with their fingers and sound out the words. The Illustrations match the actions the words portray.

I would recommend this book for the very young reader.

I was expecting to love this story because as a child, the Rugrats were my favorite characters. However, I ended up having mixed feelings. I really loved the plot and the characters but I think the writing was just too simple and not challenging at all to the reader. The plot focused on imagination of the babies on a long car ride. The babies pretended to be astronauts to make their car ride more enjoyable and it followed them through an adventure “in space.” I thought this plot was very creative and great for young readers because it encourages a resourceful imagination. Imagination is such an important thing for young children and this story’s plot really showed imagination. I also thought the plot was enticing because it taught the reader about the abstract concept of space in a simple, fun way. The characters were so fun and realistic to me. Maybe I enjoyed the characters so much because I was familiar with the Rugrats, but I thought the character development was great. It really showed Angelica as the bossy, annoying older cousin when she said “Argh! You babies can’t do anything right. Blast off!” The author also did a great job portraying Tommy as the inventive, creative baby, Chuckie as the timid backup to Tommy, and the parents as the clueless individuals they are. While I loved the plot and characters, the writing just was too underdeveloped and not challenging. There was no descriptive language and no complexity to the words. I don’t think this book would be a challenge at all to young readers, which would be a problem in a classroom. The main ideas of this book were that imagination could take you to worlds unknown and help you discover magical things. I thought this story was very cute and interesting, just could use some more complex writing.

This book shows the complex habitats around the ocean and shoreline. The book travels among the different perspectives to show the relationships of various creatures and objects. The specific habitats are the water, shoreline, and dunes.This books allows the reader to travel along and focus in the different aspects that are apart of this diverse ecosystem. The genre of this book is fantasy.

Summary
This is a story about Big Bird, Elmo and some other characters from Sesame Street. This book is informative. It can be used in the classroom. It teaches children differences in size and some of the weaknesses and strengths of those differences. This book can help children to identify with their own individual identities and can help in aiding with self-confidence. This book is a great learning tool.

Personal Reaction
Sesame street books are what I used to teach my own children.

Classroom Extensions
1. Have a discussion by asking children to name somethings that are tall and short.
2. Show a video of tall and short animals that are real.
3. Measure the children at the beginning of the school year and then at the end to show them that they are growing all of the time.

This is a lyrical information book about the relationships between sea animals, plants and the ecosystem they live in. The book explores the sky, the beach, and the ocean during the day, night and storm. It gives great insight into the ecosystem and includes deeper information about the topics after the book for children to explore more.

I had mixed feelings about this book. I really liked the illustrations, they were the best part of the book for me. I also liked that the language was very descriptive. However, I didn't like the way that the writing flowed through the book. I felt like there was no clear sequence or conclusion. Though I did like the big idea which was to expose children to the idea of an ecosystem and it's inhabitants.½

This book is realistic fiction, but explores real life facts using a fiction lyrical story. I liked this book a lot, it goes through various scenes involving the sea and it's inhabitants. It starts off in the air, and then explores in the sea. The child gets to see different parts of the ecosystem in a systematic way.

This book describes details of nature and how they intermingle. It is set as a narrative, describing what the sea sees from its vast view. The genre is realistic fiction.

This is one book that I remember from my own childhood. It was even better for when I read it to my children. It was a very fast bedtime read. Happy read kids.

This is a great book for a child who loves Sesame Street! It takes pictures from "everyday" life and relates them to the size of Big Bird and Elmo. Kids learn big and small through the antics of Sesame Street Characters.

Internet UPC Database

A Bright and Early book from Random House and the Children's Television Workshop, takes the basic concepts of big and small and puts them both in a fun, brightly illustrated tale for youngsters. One lesson will include taking the basic concepts of big and small and putting them both in a fun tale for children.

Review: A lyrical introduction to the sea, its inhabitants, and its role in the world around it. Includes facts about the ecosystems of oceans and shore lines.
Genre: Informational
Critique: Even this book has an unconventional point of view, either the sky or the sea, it presents correct information and facts. It accurately describes the different parts of the ecosystem and how everything works together. Even though it is not presented by just listing out facts, the interesting point of view allows for a more reader-friendly informational book. The back also includes a glossary and a list of books related to the topic.