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I had 4 books as a young child, this one, Peter Pan and A Child's Garden of Verses.

This book is a little bit more strange. It defiantly has some parts that some children may not like.

I loved my mother reading this to me as a child. Now, I love to read it to my daughter. This is an all time favorite for me!!

Alice in Wonderland is a classic book and movie. The story begins with a girl named Alice that follows a rabbit down a hole. The rabbit is late and is rushing to get to his important occasion. She ends up in a room with two cookies, one will make her shrink and the other will make her taller. She eats a little bit of both so that she can fit through the key hole. She has ends up going on an unimaginable adventure. She talks to a cat that can disappear in an instance, meats a smoking caterpillar, and walks through a garden of mean flowers. Alice has a tea party with a mad hatter, has an encounter with tweedle dee and tweedle dum, and has a horrifying golfing experience with the queen of hearts. By the end of the adventure she is ready to go home.

Alice in Wonderland is a timeless classic in both the book and movie form. I remember reading this book as a small child. I also enjoyed watching the movie created by Walt Disney. This book portrays fantasy throughout the entire story. Talking rabbits, disappearing cats, and golfing with flamingos are just a few of the elements that make up the adventure and fantasy of the story.

Classroom Extension 1: I would give the students a card from a regular deck of cards. I would ask them to think back to the story and about the guards and servants that worked for the queen of hearts. I would ask then to draw, paint, or create themselves as one of those guards. I would have them use the card as part of their armor just like in the story.

Classroom Extension 2: After reading the book, to make the story more concrete we would have a tea party. I would ask each student to dress as a character from the story and bring one food or drink item to the tea party. As the students snack and have tea together they would watch the movie Alice and Wonderland. After watching the movie we would discuss what some of the elements of the book and movie were fantasy.

Summary: This book is based on the Disney film. It is the classic tale of Alice falling asleep, following a rabbit, drinking a potion to shrink, eating a cookie to grow, meeting the mad hatter, having a tea party, etc. Alice befriends almost everyone in Wonderland and has a fun tea party. The illustrations are the classic Disney pictures.

Personal Reaction: I liked this story as a little girl because I liked to have the tea parties and pretend I was in Wonderland. I liked the fantasy element of the story as well. Of course now I know that there are no potions to make us shrink or cookies to make us grow, but all of that was so magical and amazing when I was a kid. I liked the pictures in the book and the fact that it went right along with the movie was a bonus.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1) Have a tea party with the class
2) Talk about the importance and effects of saying "No" to drugs

Summary- This is a story about a girl named Alice who falls asleep and enters a rabbit hole. She ends up meeting characters such as a rabbit, caterpillar, Mad hater, and mouse. At the end of the story she wales up to realize that it was all just a dream.

Personal Reaction- This is one of my favorite movies but I've never actually read a children's book about it. It;s very interesting and such an exciting book for children.

Classroom extension ideas- 1) The kids can all draw a make believe land and show that class.
2) Have a discussion about the dreams that we've had.

In this story, it is about a girl named Alice. Alice wants to escape her real life and she ends up falling alseep. As she falls asleep, she falls into a rabbit hole and enters a world of make believe called Wonderland. This is where Alice adventures start. She meets many interesting characters such as a caterpillar, rabbit, mouse, Mad hater, and so many more. Alice goes through many changes throughout this story. At one point, she grows very tall and then she shrinks to two feet. She has quite the adventure in Wonderland. At the end of the story, Alice realizes that it was all a dream and tells her sister about it.

My reaction: I love Alice in Wonderland! I loved it as a kid and still do and read this to my own children.

Classroom extension:
1. Explain to the students that we all enter fantasy world when we dream. Have students draw on a piece of paper of a dream that they have had.
2. We can have a class discussion about what other stories have fantasies in them.
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This book is another great choice for someone looking for a good fantasy book for children. This book has great artwork and the characters are very colorful. This book is great for getting the children thinking and keeps them entertained the whole time. The book starts off with a young girl who is bored listening to her sister read her a story and she decides to lay down and is thinking of how she would like to have a world of her own called Wonderland. She falls asleep and is thrust into the world she was dreaming of called wonderland. The story has many vast twists and turns but, the characters that Alice comes across are very interesting and the book never lets go of your attention. It one book that is a must read for kids in the classroom.

Summary:
This is a story of a girl named Alice who is trying to escape her real life. She imagines a place called Wonderland. One day she falls in a rabbit hole and falls right into Wonderland. She meets all the characters she has made up in her mind. Her adventure leads her to make new friends and new adventures.
Reflection:
I liked this book it can be fun for any child to read. This is a great way to get kids to think outside the box. It shows them that dreams can be fun and we can also learn from our dreams. Just as Alice has learned from hers.

This modern fantasy is about a girl named Alice who creates a place called wonderland and then while trying to escape reality and clear her head she falls down a rabbit hole into wonderland, there she goes on a quest of figuring out wonderland and the people in it and slaying the jabberwockie all helping her ultimately realize that she created wonderland in her head as a small child, creating a place to dream up unrealistic to most but conceived as totally possible things to her. This place called wonderland helps her sort out her problems in reality and assists her in making some great life decisions.

I would use this story to encourage my classroom of children in grades 2nd-5th to "think outside the box" and to remind them to never let anyone tell them that their dreams are impossible. In some children's lives I believe that school may be the one place where they have encouragement to fulfill their dreams, this is very sad but true. I not only want to be a teacher to help kids become smarter but to also give them someone in their lives who they know that they can come to about ANYTHING and will ALWAY be there to help them with their struggles best that I possibly can. I want to be a teacher, roll model, friend and coach all rolled up into one and I believe with this book I can reinforce this.

Based on the Disney animated film Alice and Wonderland. The illustrations in this story are from the film. The illustrations are colorful and eye-catching for children. I would recommend this book to all parents. Great book.

I remember reading this when I was a kid - or at least the illustrations are very familiar to me. The story is fairly simple - it describes Santa's workshop at the North Pole, all the different departments: dolls, games, trains, etc. The illustrations show the elves cavorting merrily with the toys while Santa laments that he doesn't have any time to enjoy the toys. The book continues with Santa making his Christmas deliveries and then stopping at his final delivery and taking time to enjoy and play with the toys he's left.

It's a moderately cute story, but what really makes it enjoyable to me are the nostalgic-feeling illustrations. The book says it was illustrated by the "Walt Disney Studio" and it does look very typical of Disney. I wonder if it was ever made into an animated movie or something? It'd be perfect for a cute Christmas special.½

Much of my knowledge of the Santa Clause side of Christmas come from this book. Coming across this 1982 reprint of this 1950 classic was a real joy. This will be book to pass down to the next generation.

This story is about a girl who falls asleep and enters a world of make-believe where nothing is at it seems.

This story is an all--time favorite of mine when I was growing up and I used to watch the movie over and over. This story takes on a wonderfully vivid imagination taking children from one surprise to the next.

I would use this in my class as a book to spark some imagination and maybe ask the children to draw things they think are not quite as they seem.

When children read Santa's Toy Shop they will read the story of Santa Claus and his schedule on Christmas Eve.

This is a book full of short poems that most children know. The illustrations feature Disney characters and it shows them acting out the poem on that certain page.

I really enjoyed this book because it has Disney characters in it that all children know and love. I think this book would help children like poetry more because it has cartoons in it they recognize rather than just a plain poetry book with cartoons they don’t know.

In the classroom, I would have the children pick a familiar cartoon character and write a poem about them. After they were done writing their poem, we would go to the library and print out a picture of their character to paste onto the poem. Then the children would read their poems aloud to the class.

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