The man who walked between the towers

The man who walked between the towers
4.5 Stars

By Mordicai Gerstein

2003

ISBN :0-7613-1791-0

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I would definitely buy this new, in fact it is already saved for later in our Amazon basket.

My name is Elizabeth

My name is Elizabeth
4 Stars

By Annika Dunklee

Illustrated by Matthew Forsythe

2011

ISBN :978-1-55453-560-6

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I would love to buy this book.

The High Street

The High Street

3 Stars

By Alice Melvin

2011

ISBN :978-1-85437-943-6

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This book has amazing illustrations, but a very average story. The text has nothing unacceptable in content, however the story is extremely boring. Lucinda and I like it to look at what is in the different shops. They would actually make great posters. There is a lolly shop, bakery store, china/ porcelain store, antique store, music store, pet shop, toy store, green grocers, hardware store, and florist. It really is a wonderful way to study what is in each different store (eg the different kinds of musical instruments in the music store).

I would not buy this new, but would buy it secondhand.

The Odd Egg

The Odd Egg
3 Stars

By Emily Gravett

2008

ISBN :978-1-4169-6872-6

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About a duck who cannot lay an egg, but finds one. The illustations and the text flows well. I like the cleverly cut pages. I just don't like some of the content (mostly in terms of text).

-"he thought it was the most beautiful egg in the whole wide world". ""but the other birds did not".
and the other birds are laughing and saying things like "not pretty", "it'll never hatch" and "that is and odd egg".

- I also don't like the mother bird holding a mirror and the bird saying "I'm a pretty boy".

I would not buy this new, but would buy it if I happened to find a copy at the Salvos. In other words it would have to be very cheap.

999 Tadpoles

999 Tadpoles
3 Stars

By Ken Kimura

Illustrated by Yasunari Murakami

2011

ISBN : 978-0-7358-4013-3

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A cute book about a family of frog who have to move to a bigger pond and the dangers on the way. wThe illustrations are very cute.

I don't think I would buy this book at least not first hand anyway. It was chosen as one of the top 10 picture books of the year by our library and I can most certainly see why, but it is just not for us. I don't really like the snake part in the book. The story line of the hawk dropping the frogs, because they are too heavy, but not the mother frog letting go because they are too heavy does not really make sense to me either....Then again there are a lot of books out there that do not make complete sense.