The Rough-Face Girl

This week I shared The Rough-Face Girl. It's about a girl with two mean sisters, which reminds me of Cinderella. She was tending to a fire while her sisters danced around and was burned by the embers. Hence, The Rough-Face Girl. She was forever burned and scarred. The village she and her family lived in had heard of a man called the "Invisible Being." All the women wished to marry the man, but had to go through his sister first. The Rough-Face Girl's sisters went to the women and had to prove they had seen the Invisible being. When the woman quizzed the sisters on the man, the sisters had proved themselves liars. The Rough-Face Girl had wanted to marry the man just as everyone else. So she went to the woman, and was quizzed just as the others. This is such an inspiring story, and the illustrations are amazing. They use trees, rainbows, and birds, to make a face. I think its a great mental exercise and can show its readers to look further than what is right in front of you. To use imagination and create extraordinary things out of one image.

Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelintsky

My book this week was Rapunzel. This tale definitely held true to tradition. The men and women were dressed in medieval clothing, . It's a story of a man and woman who have difficulty conceiving. When the woman realizes her stress is distributing her tighter, she tells the man they will finally have a baby. When the woman begins to get a craving for a nerve call to cancel and the Sorcerer's next or garden she must have it and sent her husband to retrieve it for her. when he goes a second time as of the woman's request the sorceress catches him and makes a deal with him . his first born in stead of his wife's life . he gladly accepts the deal and tells his wife and they unwillingly give the first one to the sorceress when she is born . The Sorcerer's names to Rapunzel and when she comes of age she puts her way in a tower where a prince in comes across her voice which he falls in love with. Her seeks her at the top of the tower. They marry in secret. When visiting Rapunzel, the sorceress hears Rapunzel complain of her dress getting tighter. The Sorcerer's sends Rapunzel to the wilderness to live on her own and wait for the Prince to return. In the story Rapunzel has twins, one boy one girl. this made me think her children were Hansel and Gretel . I think it be a great activity to have the children come up with their own continuation to the story .

Ackamarackus by Julius Lester

This book is a series of silly fables about animals. the first story is about a bee named Bernard who loses his buzz while swimming in order to marry his love which is a blue bird. the second story is about some flies to learn they can go outside of their hometown and fly all over the country while boarding airplanes. the third stories about a lion who is incredibly lazy and his wife want to change him and decide to use his laziness as an exhibit. The 4th fable about an ant who feels left out because she doesn't have any thing to protect her feet from the ground after walking a long day. She encountered a snake and snake begins to bully her she find a way to get rid of the snake. I think a good lesson for the children would be to have the children make up their own silly story and have them share it with all the class .

the three little pigs

This week I shared the well known "3 little pigs" book. This book is about the traditional nursery rhyme. As most of you I'm sure have read the nursery rhyme the original one this one stays just a little bit off of the same path. Each of the pigs move out of their original home and go to live on their own. They run into a man who has different sets of materials and each other and take a different set. Then a big bad wolf comes to huff and puff and blow their house down, and succeeds up until the 3rd house which is made of bricks. The wolf then tries to convince the pig to come out of this house in order to capture the pig. The story stays from the original nursery rhyme, because in this new story the big bad wolf eats the pigs, each time he blows their house down. The ending is slightly different as well. I thought eating the pigs was a little bit gruesome for children to be reading, and it would be expected for then to read it, being that it is a nursery rhyme. I'm not sure if I would recommend it for children.