Daily Dose of Books with Em

Title: Families around the World Genre: Non-fiction  Author: Margriet Ruurs Awards: N/A Age Group: 3 to 7 year olds Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I think this book would be a good book to look at because of how it takes us around the world looking at all of the different families and how they spend their weeks. It gives us and inside of how every family has different traditions they may do on the weekends or who lives in one house and how sometimes families move far away to other countries so you have to learn another language. This is a really nice book because it shows all of those different cultures and lifestyles.  Summary: In this book we are introduced to many children and their families like Ming Chieh who's from Canada or Baatar who's from Mongolia. The book goals all around the world talking about many different children and their families. We meet Zofia and her family who live in a small town on Poland. We learn that Sunday is her favorite day because they w...

  Title: Not Quite Snow White  Genre: Fiction Author: Ashley Franklin Awards: Texas 2x2 Age Group: 4 to 8 year olds Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I think this book would be such a good read-aloud for a class of students because it shows such an important message. It shows that you are perfect just the way you are no matter your skin tone, ethnicity, wight, or height. It also shows that we need to just love ourselves and be true to ourselves and all will be fine.  Summary: In this book we meet Tameika a little girl who thought it was always the perfect time to dance and sing and she would put on special performances for her stuffed animals. She really enjoy's being the star of every show and has been so many different characters like a cucumber all the way to a singing mermaid. One thing she's always wanted to be is a princess so she auditions for the Snow White Musical at school. After day one of auditions she starts to hear people whispering all their reasons why she...

  Title: When the Cousins Came  Genre: Fiction  Author: Katie Yamasaki  Awards: NAPPA Age Group:  4 to 8 year olds Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I think this book would be a cute book to read about how everyone is different and do things differently. The book did a good way of showing how even within families there will be differences in the way things are done and what someone may be used to.  Summary: In this book we meet Lila who's cousins Rosie and Takeo come and visit her. Right away they start noticing the differences between each other but they expose each other to their differences. For example, Rosie and Takeo bring skateboards and Lila has her bike but the teach each other how to skate and balance on a bike. As the cousins visit wen ton they kept getting exposed to each other's lifestyles like being able to go on walks at night, painting, and fireflies. On the final night they decide to try camping and at first Lila is sad because she ends up ...

  Title: The Hanukkah Mice  Genre: Fiction  Author: Steven Kroll  Awards: N/A Age Group: 4 to 8 year olds Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I think this book would be a good entertaining book to read to the class about all the different holidays that people celebrate. It's written in an entertaining and cute way with the mouse family celebrating alongside the human family. It teaches about the nights of Hanukkah in a easy to understand way.  Summary: In this book we see a family of mice run down the stairs on the first night of Hanukkah where the see the "Big People" lighting the first Hanukkah candle. That's when they see Rachel's first Hanukkah gift, a dollhouse that Mindy Mouse and her brother see is perfect for them. After the family has gone to sleep the mouse family scurries to the dollhouse to explore. Then on the second night of Hanukkah Rachel opens her gift and sees that she got some tiny furniture which the mouse family visit at night. On the thi...

  Title: Esperanza Rising Genre: Biography, Historical Fiction  Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan Awards: Pura Belpré Award for writing   Age Group: 8 to 12 year olds Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I would definitely encourage my students to read this book. This is because this book shows that despite any set backs you might face, you can overcome anything. I think this would be a good book to read when we are learning about all of the different types of themes there are. As well as learning about migrants and people who have moved from one place to another for a better life.  Summary: This book is about a young girl, Esperanza, who had an amazing life in Mexico with her parents on their ranch. But one day Esperanza's dad is murdered by bandits and as soon as that happens her uncles try to marry her mom. But since she didn't agree they threatened her. After that they wake up to their house on fire and Esperanza's Abuelita injures her ankle and they are left with no...

The front cover of "The Princess and the Warrior" Title:  The Princess and the Warrior Genre: Legend, Folklore Author: Duncan Tonatiuh Awards: Texas Bluebonnet 2017-2018  Age Group: 6-10 year olds Teacher Evaluation: As a teacher, I would read this book to my class because it teaches a nice message about hope and always remaining hopeful even when things don't turn out well. It is also a nice story about love and doing things for the ones you love. Which I think would be a cute story to read to 6-10 year olds.  Summary: In this book it talks about two characters Princess Izta and the Warrior Popoca. The princess is having to meet many suitors that propose marriage to her but she continues declining every offer until she meets Popoca who talks to her from the heart and says he wishes to marry her. She feels like he's finally the only one that has been sincere about his proposal and instantly falls in love with him. While this happening there is a war going on that lead...