THERE'S A COW IN THE ROAD!
By: Reeve Lindbergh
There's a Cow in the Road By: Reeve Lindbergh is a great book for beginning readers ages 6-9. It's very well written and very appropriate for beginning readers. The illustrations are by Tracey Campbell Pearson. They are very creative, fun, and appropriate for readers. The story is about a girl preparing for school. Meanwhile she is surprised by all the barnyard animals gathering in the road outside.
When I first started to read this book I was surprised at how organized it was. The book is genius by any means. It's not too long and it isn't too short either. The illustration's give great detail to what the author is writing about. For example on page one the author writes: "There's a cow in the road! And it sure is a shock, when I first wake up, at seven o'clock." The illustration shows a girl on her hands and knee's peering out her window to see a cow that's standing in the road. In the corner of her bed you can see a clock that reads seven o'clock. The words correspond with the illustrations to make a very fun and organized book to read.
I feel the words in this book are very appropriate. They are also very fun. The words rhyme and they are a little repetitious to make it easier and fun to read. To me the words evoked a sort of laughter as I read the book. The words used by the author to describe in detail about each barnyard animal is a great example of just how well written this book really is. "There's a horse in the road! And he's full of tricks as I comb my hair at seven twenty-six. He's twitching his tail and tossing his mane. He's a handsome horse but a little bit vain. There's a horse in the road! All ready to go. He doesn't look sleepy and he doesn't look slow." Again, the artist's drawings for depictions of the author's descriptions of the barnyard animals are just fun and very amusing for young children.
I like the author's use of time in this short story. Every time we see it, the girl is doing something new to get ready for school and a new animal is introduced. The story to me signifies the challenges it takes to get ready in the morning when you're a little kid.
Why did Wangerin decide to use a cow as the father of his story? The Dun Cow was a silent yet talkative cow that Chauntacleer would wrestle with throughout the book. The cow’s function is just as confusing as the book. Wangerin uses analogies and strong allusions to display the cow’s comfort, provision, and Godliness throughout the story.
This book was brilliant. There were moments that made me laugh, moments that made me tremble in my chair, moments that made me cry, moments that melted my heart, and moments that made me want to rip my hair out at the roots. This book has it all, and it delivers it through a cold but much needed message.
First I want to say that I was a little hesitant in choosing this book. The saying that “you can’t judge a book by its cover” certainly holds true for this book. When seeing the size of the book, I thought that there was no way I would be able to read this book in ten days. The cover shows what I thought was a hot air balloon. The first connection I made with the book were from the images on the cover. I visualized images of Wizard of Oz before I even opened to the first page. As I read the book and viewed its spectacular illustrations, I became mesmerized by its story and found it hard to put the book down. I read the book in less than three nights. . While reading this book, I found myself describing what I was seeing in the pictures with my wife. She joined in to tell her part of the story. This made reading the book fun. My wife thought I was insane for actually reading it aloud to her. It turned out to be our own interactive read aloud between the two of us. This made for great practice for what I learned through class videos and experiences.
My overall opinion of this book is good I really liked it and recommend it to anyone. It is a good book to read and it keep you interested throughout the whole book.
Many of Margaret Wise Brown’s most famous books have animals as the main character. For example, Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon, two of her most popular books, feature rabbits as the main characters. Further, in Goodnight Moon, the animal’s behavior is parallel to that of humans. For example, the motherly figure on the rocking chair is reading to the young rabbit as many parents do to their children. Additionally, Brown adds a humorous element as the young rabbit seems to have pets.
They always say to never judge a book by its cover, but my first impression I got when I looked at this book was that people gathered around a bus waiting for their family members to get off. After reading The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang I then realized that the people on the cover weren't just waiting around for their family but finding their loved ones they once lost. When I first started reading this book I was a little nervous because I never read that many books and I feel that the reason why I don’t is because not many books stand out to me. In school I would have to read books for the class or for a book report but get bored or my attention couldn’t stay focused. Just a few pages into this book and I seemed interested in what was
*All in all I would say that this novel is definitely a good read. I found my self at times relating my own thoughts and experiences to that of the characters in the book. This is the very reason I would recommend that you give your class next semester the option of reading either this book or another. From my point of view, I think that most men can not relate to certain situations that occur, which lessens the overall significance of her writing.
In Cormac McCarthy’s Sci-Fi novel, “The Road”, two mysterious people, a father and his curious son, contact survival of the fittest during tragic apocalyptic times. With a shopping cart of food and supplies, they excavate into the remains of tattered houses, torn buildings and other sheltering places, while averting from troublesome communes. In the duration of the novel, they’re plagued with sickness that temporarily unable them to proceed onward. Due to the inopportune events occurring before the apocalypse, the wife of the son and father committed suicide due to these anonymous survivors lurking the remains of earth. The last people on earth could be the ‘bad guys’ as the young boy describes them. In page 47, the wife reacted to this, stating, “Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us. They will rape me. They'll rape him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you won't face it. You'd rather wait for it to happen. But I can't.”
The good points about the book were that it always left you hanging. At the end of every page it left you wondering about what will happen on the next page. It had a very good story if you like the kind of story it is.
Selah's Painted Dream (Susan Counts) couldn't have released at a more opportune time, because in our household, summer is synonymous with reading. I selected this book with my 10-year-old daughter in mind. Like I was at her age, she is totally captivated by horses and all things equestrian (movies, books, and even clothing). Then, of course, there is the cover which I don't believe even the most reluctant reader could resist!
... text beneficial for children due to its simple educational purposes. Last but not least, the characters are the “icing on the cake”, they make the text even more enjoyed by children and make everything more interesting. Through the good uses of literary elements such as style, theme and characters, A.A. Milne was able to make The House at Pooh Corner still a very popular and outstanding children’s text.
He mixes a lightness of text, sometimes with alliterative tongue-twisters and sophisticated language made up of stylized illustrations full of hilarity and details that challenge readers' point of view. The book, Animalia contains over 1,500 objects including things such as food, musical instruments, and characters as well as the featured animal for each letter. Base also includes an image of himself when he was young as an extra for the watchful eye on every page.
This book is a very interesting read, if you have some self discipline. I mean that you need some self discipline because this book didn’t really captivate me in the sense that I couldn’t put it down. But after reading it for a while, I started to appreciate the author’s way of describing the characters and actions in this book.
When driving home her cow in the dark Sylvia’s “feet were familiar with the path, and it was no matter whether their eyes could see it or not” (Jewett 682). Sylvia is familiar with the woodlands to such an extent that she forms a strong physical connection to the natural world because even her “feet were familiar with the path.” She also refers to her cow as a “valued companion” and considers the cow’s pranks as an “intelligent attempt to play hide and seek” to which she responds to “with a good deal of zest” (Jewett 682). Sylvia escapes urban society because she was “afraid of folks,” and now relies on her “valued companion” to fulfill her need for friends and playmates. In doing so, the cow becomes the sole being she interacts with and consists of the totality of her amusement, which in turn prompts a close emotional attachment and relationship. Prior to coming to the farm, she had lived “in a crowded manufacturing town” but now feels “as if she had never been alive before.” Sylvia is content in her isolation from humanity at the farm where she only lives with her grandmother, and finally feels “alive” in a setting where she is alienated from other people and surrounded by nature and animals. She in turn seems content and welcomes her close relationship to the natural world around her and willingly gives up human interactions to achieve this. After trailing through the woods late into the night she feels “as if she were a part of the gray shadows and the moving leaves.” Sylvia comes to the realization that she becomes “a part of” and finds a sense of belonging in the natural world, which shows her close emotional