Melissa

My son will be reading this soon for his schoolwork so I wanted to read it before he did. This is a great book that teaches some very important lessons, like what true courage is, and the value of perseverance. I think this will be a very timely book for my soon to be 12 year old to read right now!

I just love a good conspiracy theory!

An excellent adventure story that teaches kids the importance of thinking before you speak, and what having your heart's desire means for everyone, not just yourself!

A great read aloud book for all ages! All of my kids, ages 6-11 loved this one. Great short chapters, each one filled with humor, adventure, and knights! How can you beat that?

This was a cute little book! My kids loved it and begged me to read them more. I'm very interested in reading the sequels.

This was a great overview and perfect introduction to the study of the World Wars. The pictures make this book interesting and captivating. If you have a child interested in learning more about these wars, I highly recommend this book. I loved the list of movies and documentaries at the end of the book for further study.

Always a classic, fun to read book. My kiddos love it!

Read this one aloud to my kids, they loved it and I loved it! Such a well written book, with a really wonderful look behind the scenes of getting a book published. It was a struggle not to read ahead and find out what happened! :)

This was such a great story, enjoyed by all of us. (My kids and I)
It makes me want a pet owl!

A very simple story of Eric the Red settling in Greenland, and Leif discovering “Vinland”. I read this to my 9 year-old daughter and she enjoyed it.

Read this to my littlest as a science lesson, he loved it! Great pictures and easy explanations of animals' coloring. Good for little ears to be read aloud, great for older kids to read on their own too!

Such a cute story about showing another kindness and acceptance. The fact that it originated from the most unlikely of characters brought home that point even more.

I'm surprised at how many people read this book and wrote reviews saying it was disappointing. I'm suppose if you are wanting a gruesome, bloody, type of horror book, you'd be disappointed. But nothing about this book gave me the impression that it was that kind of book.
I personally find the inspiration behind this story (all those old, strange, anonymous, yet real pictures) refreshingly unique! It's nice to read a story that came about in an unconventional way. I look forward to reading the sequel, hoping for growth in the author and the characters.
Definitely inspires imagination and creativity, if nothing else. :)

I've read a previous edition of this book, and I absolutely love this updated 7th edition! I stand by my earlier comment on this book, “this is a MUST read for every parent”!! I'll even go as far to say that if you have children within earshot of you at any given point during the day, you need to read this book!!

I just can't get over what a touching story this was. There were a couple of different times I welled up with tears, either out of sadness, or pride in this young man's life. A wonderful coming-of-age book to share with the boys in your life!

A very cute variation of Amelia Bedelia! I bought this one for my daughter, I hope she likes it as much as I did. :-)

Ok, so I didn't really think that I'd like a Nicholas Sparks book, however, I didn't think it would really be fair to discount him as an author without actually giving one of his books a chance.
This was a very sweet story, with a very sweet message. I would recommend it to others who enjoy romance books. Even though I enjoyed it, I'm still not sure if I'd pick up another of his books. Perhaps I'll give another one a try sometime.

This book should be required reading for ALL of humankind. Seriously.

This was better the second time around! I added a star. :)

A great Yiddish folk tale with a powerful lesson! Good for kids and adults. :)

Ok, so I'm not really giving this book 4 stars as far as story telling goes, I'm giving it 4 stars for being a great book for getting your kids turned on to science! The cases/experiments were easy for little ones to follow, and I LOVED the last sections of the book where they give you step by step instructions for doing some of the same experiments on your own, as well as how to make your own science lab and be your very own scientist! I read this aloud to all my kids (grades K, 3, and 5) and they all enjoyed it!

Although I'm not sure I enjoy the way the book portrays the Indian gods/goddesses in the story, and I'm not a huge fan of “magical powers” being the solution out of sticky situations, I feel it wouldn't be fair not to give a book that made me cry physical tears anything less than 5 stars. I will not feel like a complete person until I read the next 2 books and find out what happens. sigh

I just love Calvin and Hobbes... and by reading through this book, I realized that my youngest son is totally Calvin... he just needs the red shirt and shoes! And a stuffed Tiger... :)

I read this long ago as a child, but just listened to the audio version with my kids. I have fond memories of making a diorama of the cake scene in this book for a project in school. :)
My kids loved this book! It's so fun introducing a new generation to Ramona.

I'm probably rating this one a star higher than I would under normal conditions. Normal conditions being that I'm not all caught up in the emotions of the book, and not sitting here all mopey because I haven't got a hold of the second book yet to see what happens. :)