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Independent Reading Level: Kindergarten- 1st grade
Awards/Honors: none

Very focused on the myth of the nature loving american mythic Johnny Appleseed, the illustrations are lovely and the poem charming to read. I like the vegan Johnny Appleseed refusing to harm any of God's creatures. Perfect autumnal read.

Rhymed text and illustrations relate the life of John Chapman, whose distribution of apple seeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend and left a legacy still enjoyed today.

PreK - 3

Take a trip to the farm with your child! This activity kit has many ways for you and your child to engage, and learn about the farm!

This book is a piece of poetry that contains prayers, proverbs and sentiments from many different religions. This book is a good example and introduction to poetry for children. This book is targeted towards primary grade students.

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Another good Lindbergh book, this time from the youngest daughter of the aviator and Anne Morrow.
Gives another perspective on the family. Well-written.

memoir of growing up as the daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

5806 Under a Wing A Memoir, by Reeve Lindbergh (read 21 Oct 2022) I had this book and decided to read it because I wanted to see what the author, the youngest of Charles Lindbergh's legitimate children (born in 1945), had to say about her father's German bastards. The book was published in 1998, before the existence of said children was known to the author. The book details the autocratic behavior of Lindbergh in the family's life and how, when his daughter learned of her father's infamous Des Moines speech , she effectively deprecates same for its anti-Semitic tenor. One cannot blame his daughter for her admiration for her parents but she sees her father's errors and the Wikipedia article on her shows she was duly bothered by his devious and despicable actions.

I wouldn't be able to use this one as a read-aloud since Lindbergh "rhymes" several words that, for me, don't rhyme, which would make it difficulty storytime reading.

Reading Level 1st-4th

Here, gathered together by Reeve Lindbergh, are 77 treasured poems and prayers from many cultures and faiths. In Every Tiny Grain of Sand is a diverse and beautiful collection of poems, praise, and pictures for families of all beliefs to contemplate and to cherish.

I love that this book could have ended with the goose finally being caught after a day of destruction, but instead asks the question why the goose might have escaped in the first place. As a result, the ending is unexpectedly tender. Kellogg’s illustrations are vibrant and full of life and humor, with fun sequences of cause and effect from one page to the next. I also appreciated the unusual rhyme scheme, which further energized the story. C really liked that the first image reveals that the goose let himself out of the pen!

Mine is a signed copy by Reeve at the 2002 75th Anniversary Lindbergh expo in Little Falls, MN.

This is a gem of a book. After reading the Aviator's Wife I was hungry for more info on the Lindberghs and my library search turned up this. Written by the youngest Lindbergh child, Reeve, it is not a linear account, but a true memoir of impressions and memories of growing up with such famous parents and under the shadow of a tragedy. I knew of her as a children's author, but was excited to find this book for adults. She writes beautifully and poetically about the "give-and-take between public impression and private memory, each informing, educating, correcting and ultimately humanizing the other, over time. . . I have learned that by pursing my own history consistently, pursuing it with compassion and without fear, I will discover over and over again that the people I love best can never be lost to me." (195) This book was written in 1998, 20 years after her father's death, and during her mother's slow decline to old age (she died in 2001). Reeve looks at her childhood from the impressionable view of a child, complete with smells, feelings and spatial memory of favorite places and memories of favorite people. She also looks at family dynamics and the sheer force of her father's will ("in his presence we became much more completely and perilously alive") and her mother's intelligence and sensitivity. ("she taught us that any experience worth living through was worth writing about") She also shares her close relationship with her siblings, especially Anne, who died at age 59 from cancer. The importance of place and family identity is explored beautifully and she does not shy away from difficult topics (Charles Lindbergh's perceived antisemitism in WWII, for example) but she also accurately catches the distance a child feels from the life and actions of an adult parent, especially things that happened before her birth. The same goes for the kidnapping. The family resisted letting that define them, to the betterment of all the subsequent children. The title is so apt, as is the cover picture that it predisposed me to a pleasant read and I wasn't disappointed.

This is a memoir, not so much of the author's life but of the author's impressions, understandings, and experiences living with her two famous parents as well as some other family members. It did give a vivid portrait of those presented.

Bessie Coleman was the first black female to fly a plane. This is a great children's picture book about her. She had many struggles to deal with to do what she wanted to do which was to fly. As she was determined to fly, everyone doubted her. Someone then gave her the idea to go fly in France, and so she did. She was so proud to be a pilot. I liked this book and I think it can inspire children to go after their dreams no matter what obstacles they face. They they want it bad enough, they can get it.

This book will be great to read to back-to-schoolers. I think children will enjoy a funny story about shopping for school supplies. But as an adult reading this, I can find the story very relatable. When I go to the store with a certain list I have to buy, I get distracted with things I do not need. The illustration of this book was very bright. Every page made the aardvarks look very messy. I think the illustrator did a great job on showing what a disaster the aardvarks made.½

Lauren B read in storytime for 3-5yos

A story told in rhyme of a quiet cat who lived with a quiet lady in a quiet house. The lady leaves each day, and Homer is usually just fine at home, but one day a loud noise startles him, and he runs through town. Eventually he winds up at the library, where he finds the quiet lady - she's a librarian!

Same illustrator as Sophie's Squash; whimsical watercolor and collage.

See also: Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen/Kevin Hawkes

Once in a while, if you're lucky, you find a book that fits so perfectly into your life that it seems sent by God. This book is that for me. It's about mothers and daughters, about loss, about words, about family, about the unspeakable. It brought pain, but it also brought comfort. It's a book I wish I had written. It's a book I'd give to every woman who, as an adult, loses her mother. It makes me want to find Reeve Lindbergh and thank her.

Johnny Appleseed is written in poem format, it has beautiful illustrations, and it tells the story of Johnny Appleseed in a creative way to keep young readers interest.

Rhyming text gives praise and thanks for all of creation including wind and sun, plants and animals, desert, rocks, and sea.

Johnny Appleseed is an appealing and entertaining story due to the beautiful pictures shown throughout. Rhymed text and good illustrations are key factors leading readers into making the life of John Chapman more relatable. John Chapman, who is also known as Johnny Appleseed is a legend who distributed apple seeds across the midwest and explaining his journey in a engaging way that is relatable to young children. This story is very well known and a great book to use as a read aloud for young readers or in the classroom library for more developed readers.

A rhymed view of the interrelatedness and belonging of all things and creatures in the universe, from the stars, to the sea, to a mouse, to a child.