This book was everything I hoped for and more. When I was an elementary school student, I found a book—The Mysteries of Harris Burdock—and would check it out several times a year, studying the pictures to create stories for each one of them. And now, several famous children's writers have done th...
This book is based on the book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, which is a book with 14 pictures that each had a title and a caption, but no other story. The "mystery" is that the author of the pictures, Harris Burdick, had gone to a publisher to see if he liked the material and if it could be p...
My actual rating is 3.5 stars. There are some truly fantastic stories in this book that go spectacularly with the images BUT, as with many short story books, there were a few in here that dragged it down. The book opens with a Tabitha King story which attempts to be mysterious, magical and enig...
Taking three kids to Niagara Falls this summer, so will read many books on it in advance. This one is a rather calm one by the maker of gorgeous art in such books as Polar Express and Jumanji, wild stories, and a little on the fantastical and fearful side. This is about the first woman to go over...
The one thing I like about this is that the kids are not little angels nor do they learn their lesson in the end. That is a nice slice of reality for a children's book. Kids do mistreat their pets. They hurt them and often aren't held responsible and don't learn how to treat animals (of their fel...
Awards: The Caldecott 1986 Plot:As a young boy strains to hear the bells on Santa’s Sleigh from his bed, instead he hears the sound of a train whistle. Going outside he finds it is the Polar Express. The conductor invites him aboard and they are off. On board were many other children and they a...