A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee is a contemporary realistic fiction book. The book was a Randolph Caldecott honor book in 2009. The age group this book is intended for is primary to intermediate. The book is about two friends going to a nature summer camp. They weren’t to...
Description: Best friends, James and Eamon, spend a week a week at nature camp but have the best time, not at camp, but spending time together. Genre: This Picture book is realistic fictionIntended Audience: 1st Grade - 3rd GradeCurriculum Connection: For elementary grades, I think this is a grea...
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SUMMARYJames and Eamon, best friends, go to visit over summer break Bill and Pam (Eamon's grandparents) who live on the beach. During the day, Bill drives them to nature camp. But,t he book is less about the camp and more about the friendship, relationships with the grandparents, and silly boy ...
This book made me laugh out loud on public transportation, which I always find to be the mark of an excellent story. From the very cover, James and Eamon capture my attention and make me want to keep turning the pages to find out more about their adventures. I spent a good deal of time looking at...
Boot and Shoe are two puppy siblings who love each other very much. They eat together, pee together, and sleep together. In fact, the only difference between them is that one of them prefers sitting on the front porch while the other prefers sitting on the back porch.One day, a squirrel stirs u...
Any good children's book worth its salt, will have excellent illustrations. This one does.Second criteria for a children's book is that you, the adult, won't mind reading it over and over again.Marla Frazee's whimsical illustrations are wonderfully captivating. It is that children's book that you...
Browsing the children's section at the bookstore recently made me realize with absolute clarity that I am not a big fan of the overly sentimental or aggressively colorful kids' books prominently featured on the shelves. Give me cute and funny any day! This book definitely fits that bill.It may be...