I've asked my little brother to honor us with his very own post with his thoughts on the last four read alouds we've done together. Here's his post below which I typed up as he spoke it to me and he helped me select the images:
The four most recent read alouds I finished with my sister are The Doll People, Esio Trot, Wee Gillis and The Squirrel's Birthday and Other Parties.
The Doll People was funny! My favorite part
was when the cat had the dad and the Grandma Katherine said "No! You'll be
locked up in the kitchen!" Here's The Captain (that's the cat)
trying to get Annabelle's dad from behind the drawers!
Esio Trot was crazy! Because he made up all
those words. And here's a picture that's in the book, but this one's in color!
And so this is not actually Alfie, it's one of the fake Alfie's and I
remember seeing this picture in the book because he has a smile on his face
since he's not that used to the lettuce that Ms. Silver gives him and he likes
it!
I loved Wee Gillis because he could blow up the
giant bagpipes. And I liked that it was set in Scotland. Even though
there were no colors in the illustrations, they were really good. Here's
a funny picture from book where Wee Gillis is surrounded by his Uncles, one
from the Highlands and the other from the Lowlands:
The Squirrel's Birthday was funny, funny, funny and
funny again! And strange :) My favorite part was when all of the
animals were dressed up in costumes as other animals. Here's a picture of that:
Lovely reviews of four fantastic books! Well done!
ReplyDeleteHe says "Thank you!" (in a silly, cute voice)
DeleteBravo! That was SO cute and good.
ReplyDeleteAw, thanks! He's asleep but I'll let him know :) He was excited to hear that others would get to read his thoughts on the books we read aloud!
DeleteI enjoyed reading your brother's post! I love that you are reading so much with him. Of these, the only one my daughter and I have read is The Doll People. I know we read the second in the series, too, but am not sure if we read the third. Great books!
ReplyDeleteThanks! DId you like the others a lot, were they as good as the first? And yes, the others were really great, especially The Squirrel's Birthday by Toon Tellegen, it was very Winnie the Pooh-esque and just wonderful to read :)
DeleteJUST GOT Esio Trot for my Julia! Like, 3 days ago! And 'The Squirrel's Birthday' is just the most amazing book ever, we own it and I treasure it so. Nothing quite like it!!!
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Hope you enjoy it! It was a cute story, I will say it wasn't my favorite of Roald Dahl's stories, but it's hard to live up to Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory :) And I loved The Squirrel's Birthday!!! I was so excited to learn that there are two more companion books!
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