Diane Z. ShoreRecensioni

Thanksgiving family read-aloud picture book binge.

Spanning centuries, pretty nature pictures are encroached upon by industrialization, population explosion, corporate malfeasance, and mass pollution. But all we have to do is recycle our water bottles and plant some trees and problem solved? Too simplistic even for a children's book, especially once the authors have broached some pretty major topics.

And the whole thing is told in annoying couplets. Ugh.

This is a great book for teachers to use for Earth Day.

This a great book to introduce ideas of equality and the civil rights movement. The book does a good job addressing these topics - and many others - head on with little to no sugar coating. It does this through the blunt language combined with beautiful illustrations depicting what is being discussed in the text.Students of all levels can find enjoyment in the story line. In other words, it's a book that can bring the whole class together without leaving any students behind.

Although this book is written in rhymes it is by no means light hearted as it takes on life before and after the civil rights movement in a very straight forward way. The rhyming makes the book friendly for children while addressing a very serious subject. It is direct and to the point with a powerful ending of the message of the power of "dreaming of freedom". I think this book is a great way to introduce the civil rights movement to young kids, as it entails rhyming while maintaining the facts.

This book spoke volumes to me, the words and the pictures both showing telling thier own tsotry in perfect unison. I thought this book was a bit of a shock when i was the comparison of the lives people lived in. I enjoyed this book, it was really powerful book.

Breathtaking illustrations, full of emotion. This would be a great show and read aloud. The text is sparse but the illustrations tell the story powerfully. Historical information is presented well.

I think this book is very powerful. The are not many words on each page, only a sentence or two, but the pictures are large and almost tell the story it self. The main large pictures on each page are depicting what the words are saying and then there are strips at the top with small images of different symbolisms during this time of segregation. When explaining the separate, but equal law, the illustrations do a wonderful job of showing similar settings, but people being separated by race. The book also goes through the progression of time. Starting with the segregation era, to the leaders who helping make change, and now where people can share things such as water fountains, and bus seats.

This book explores racism and the progress society has made toward reducing racism. It is told in chronological order so it stars with slavery and segregation, then moves on talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists of that era, to what the future may hold for us as a society if we keep moving in that direction. The illustrations in the book are excellent, and you can really see the emotion on the character's faces during different eras. Another great thing in the book, when it talks about the activists it shows real pictures of them so we can know what they looked like in real life. Other pictures in the book were real like the signs that said "whites only" and "colored."

I thought this book was fantastic! First, the rhyming within the story really pulled readers in and made them feel the emotions of the narrator. For example, when the story discussed the Montgomery Boycott it read "These are the buses -- a dime buys a ride -- but the people are sorted by color inside." It is simply said but powerful. Second, I love the sequence of how the story was told. The story was about the Civil Rights Movement and the book discussed each movement in numerical order from first movement to the end of segregation. I think that the big idea of this book is to educate students on a time period when equal rights were not given to all people.

“This is the Dream”

I liked this book for two reasons. I liked the language. It had a lot of rhyming words, which gave it a steady flow. This made the message of the book more powerful. For example, the language in the line “with harsh written words that are slapped on the walls, denying both freedom and justice for all” gave a sense of how poorly conditions were. The flow of this sentence makes it easy for the reader to understand and remember.
The second reason why I liked this book is because of the illustrations. They gave me a visual of what life was like during segregation and how they were separate but not equal. One of the images was that of a school for white children and the image beside was of a school for black children. The school for black children looked worse than the school for white children and it had less resources. This image enhanced the idea that they were indeed separate but not equal. The images at the end of the book show how America has come a long way with pictures of all races sitting together. The message of this book is that there people who had to endure and fight (peacefully) so that everyone could live amongst each other peacefully.

I loved this picture book from the start. By first looking through the illustrations only I enjoyed the book because there were painted illustrations, along with photos from the civil rights act that were added for boarders that added more to the story. Having real photos makes it easier to know that these topics were not made up and were real events. The painted illustrations were done beautifully with real emotions on the characters’ faces. I love when people mix photos and paint mediums together because it makes the page stand out more. The content of the book was great because it discussed numerous topics in many ways. Sometimes the text mentioned a specific event like the bus boy cott and other times the pictures would illustrate important people or events like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. The plot of the book took the reader on a ride through the civil rights movement from discussing the different lifestyles of white Americans and African American by showing comparisons to in the current time where we are all one. But then, the book discussed how it only took ordinary people that helped make the transformation. I liked the quote, “ordinary people took change and did it even if the journey was hard.” This was a great message that it was not special people that made the change and that anyone can be the great leaders to make a difference in the world. This book is definitely 5 out of 5 stars.

I liked this book for a few reasons. First, the use of rhymes in the language was easy to follow along to. The ending word in every two lines rhymed. For example “These are the doors that are closed in the schools” and “separate but equal is not just a rule”. It shows how each idea flows with the next. Second, the writing was organized. Each page had a new idea, but each page contributed to the overall message at the end. The writing was simple but accurate to the time period of the events that were occurring. Third, the illustrations were extremely detailed and accurate. One page in particular showed colored people protesting at a white diner. They were sitting at bar stools while white people were throwing things at them and holding their fists in the air, portraying anger. The facial expressions of the colored people were blank. They were determined. The facial expressions of the white people was anger and resentment. Even though the writing was simple, the illustrations contained a lot of information. They also included real illustrations of historical figures and events. This was more of an informational/nonfiction piece so there was no one big theme, but it used accurate facts and real pictures to teach readers about segregation.

Places and things had designated places that were assigned for colored and white people. It shows how the colored people went through segregation back then such as where they could sit at and where they could go in at in certain places. Certain color people took a stand, making a change and difference in segregation and became leaders for the colored people. After that every person was treat equally. Books show that history can be learned in more than one way. It can also be fun to learn history. Books also show that everyone deserves to be treated equally no matter the color of their skin.

Diane Shore brings students through the brutal history of segregation in her book, "This Is The Dream." The book sets a quiet tone as the author tells the story of how people lived in the time of segregation where everything is separated and equality came far, few and in between. This book is a great book to show students the horrible way people treated one another, especially when it came to the "white only" zones. Reading this book to children can make them feel very awkward and can possibly make them act out in certain ways since there are still racist people in the world and you never know if a student in your class has a parent that is racist. This book would be prevalent to a class if the time period is being taught about, but it is not a book to read just because you want to.

This book starts out by showing what segregation loooked like. They show pictures of blacks and whites being separated only because the color of their skin. It then shows the leaders who fought to end segregation and make equal rights. The end of the book shows how society looks now everyone shares the same drinking fountian. On the buses everyone gets to choose where they sit and not have to be told where to sit. This book is a good informational book because it shows what society use to look like and the present. Age Primary The media used in this book was painting, collage, and photos.

I love how this book is softly written and illustrated. It is written in poem form and the pictures are a beautiful way to describe what is going on in the book. I think the book has a very strong theme and addresses it well.

"This is the land, / fertile, alive, / crawling with creatures / That help it to thrive. / This is the river, / flowing and free, / streaming with fish / as it swells to the sea." And so begins this poetic picture-book examination of the beauties of the earth, and the history of human interaction with it. Written along the lines of the famous nursery rhyme, The House That Jack Built, Diane Z. Shore and Jessica Alexander's text outlines the many human activities that affect the earth, whether for good or ill, concluding with actions that we all can take to help the environment, "Making a difference, / becoming aware, / together we live / on this Earth that we share."

With its rollicking cadence and colorful artwork, This Is the Earth would make an excellent read-aloud title, one that educates as it engages and entertains. One of four picture-books that will be featured during an Earth Day event here at work, it offers both a celebration of our planetary home and an ecological lesson. I appreciated the fact that those behaviors which harm the earth - pollution, over-use of resources - are followed by those that can help, leaving the young reader/listener with a positive model of what can be achieved in the end, rather than a sad one of what has gone wrong. The watercolor artwork by Wendell Minor is lovely, and ably conveys the ideas and images mentioned in the rhyming text. Recommended to anyone looking for picture-book with an ecological theme, particularly for Earth Day!

This is a nice read aloud about the Earth, the environment, and our effects on it. It is rhyming with just a few lines on most pages and has nice clear, colorful illustrations. It encourages responsible usage of our resources without being too preachy.

This is a fantastic early reader for children who are not yet ready for chapter books and who need a clever and funny book. This book is told from the perspective of a younger brother who is teaching all younger brothers who read this book how to annoy their older sisters. There are four 'chapters' of lessons, of ways to annoy your older sister, which include hiding an alarm clock, placing a plastic snake in the bathroom, and flying stuffed animals. I laughed out aloud several times at Bradley Harris Pinkerton's creativity and I think most young readers will too.

This is a wonderfully entertaining story and the pictures make the text even funnier. This is a longer book, but I think it will hold a readers attention right to the end. It is a fun read. There are wonderful opportunities for children to imagine other ways that Bradley can drive his sister crazy. This is a high interest book, that even older struggling readers would enjoy reading. There are other books in this series that I need to read and review to see if the series is worth purchasing for my classroom.

In this book the character does not pay attention to what he is doing and just keeps running every where and does not realize that he needs to stop and look to see what is going on. The main idea of this story is even when you’re in a rush you need to be careful or something bad could happen.

One reason I like that book is that it relates to people who are always in a rush and not paying any attention to what they are doing. In the book it shows this through Filbert just running through the street not paying any attention to what is going on around him and causing an accident. Another reason I like this book is that the story is told in a rhyme. For example “She tosses him a sack. “Run to Granny’s. Hurry back.” I like that the whole story is told in this way.

This is the Dream is a story about the Civil Rights movement. The story is told in poetry form and begins with the segregation between blacks and whites in the United States. The book then illustrates the progress black leaders helped pave the way for the freedom and equality we have today. I loved the collage of photos that represent each event within the book. I also loved the poetry. I would recommend that everyone read this book and if I used this book in my future classroom. I would definitely focus on comparing and contrasting the different changes of the Civil Rights movement.

This is a well written and nicely illustrated book! This is a book about how whites and coloreds were always to stay separated. It took several years for anyone to step up and try to fight for freedom, but four leaders help change the way it was for coloreds and whites.

personal reaction: I think that this is a great book about how we are all equal and should all be treated equal.

Classroom Extension: I would read the book to the children and tell them some of the history of freedom, we might even draw a picture from the book.

In my opinion this is a really good book to read to the class during the Thanksgiving celebration. The first reason why I would definitely use this book in my classroom would be the plot of the sorry. The story is very organized talking about the Pilgrims getting in this country with a ship in a very stormy night. Then it goes to talk about how the Native Americans and the Pilgrims worked together. This book pushes the readers to think about the first Thanksgiving and how it is now one of the biggest holidays in this country. This book doesn't only tell a story, it informs the reader why the first Thanksgiving dinner took place and how the food used in that dinner is still used till this day. The illustrations are also a very big part of this book. They are colorful and tell a story by itself. The big idea of this book is definitely informing the readers about Thanksgiving and how it turned out to be.½

Even after slavery had been abolished America was still segregated.
AGES: 4-6
SOURCE: ECE LIBRARY

A fun story of baseball set to lyrical verse with colorful, realistic illustrations.