The Book Wanted: The Perfect Pet is a picture book that is written and illustrated by Fiona Robertson. The Book is about a boy named Henry. Henry wants a dog more than anything else in the world, his mother doesn’t want to get Henry a dog so she convinces Henry that he already has too many frogs. Next, Henry wants a different pet. Henry wants a Duck, he gets a Duck and likes the duck way more than the dog. There are are many connections that I can make to the book. One connection that I can make to the book is a Text to Self. When I was younger I always wanted Car toys from the Disney store. It always took me a while to figure out which one was the perfect one. This reminded me of Henry when he was trying to figure out which pet he was going to get. Another connection that I can make to the book is a Text to Text. When I was younger I always used to read books about wanting lots of different clothes, different shoes and reading those books reminded me of Henry when he wanted the pets. Another connection that I can make to the book is a Text to world. I’ve seen many people at many stores that want different shoes and clothes and this reminded me of Henry. A final connection that I can make to the book is a Text to media. I’ve seen many people on the internet wearing different clothes and buying lots of stuff and this reminded me of Henry. Overall, this book was a great book to read and I would recommend to many people who like reading picture books.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a true picture book story that is written by William Kamkwamba and is illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon. The book is about a fourteen year old boy named William Kamkwamba and his village that is hit by a drought. The crops have all died in their village. The people at school and in the whole country didn’t have enough to buy food. So William spent his days in the library finding a solution to try to bring electricity to his country. With all the researching and studying that William did he built a functioning windmill.

There are a few connections that I can make to the book. One connection that I can make to the book is a Text to Self connection. When I try to persevere through my challenges in Hockey I made a connection to that because William was preserving and trying to build the windmill. Another connection that I can make to the book is a Text to Text connection. I have read books that involve preserving through your challenges. This reminded me of the book. A final connection that I can make to the book is a text to world connection. I have seen many people in the NHL that have to fight and persevere through their challenges.

The Book After The Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again is a picture book that is written by Dan Santat and illustrated by Dan Santat. The Book is about Humpty Dumpty and how he falls off a wall. Then a miracle happens, people fixed him up so that he wasn’t broken. Then he had the confidence to climb a ladder back to the top of the wall. The theme of the book is to not have doubt in yourself and believe you can. There are many connections that I can make to the book. One connection that I can make is a Text to Self connection. I had a hockey tryout and I had a lot of doubt in myself that I couldn’t make it. That feeling reminded me of the book when Humpty Dumpty was scared that he couldn’t climb the wall. Another connection that I can make to the book is a Text to Text connection. I read a book called “Ice Time” and there was this kid named Rocket. He was in the similar situation that I was in when he doubt of making the team. This reminded of the book when Humpty Dumpty was scared of climbing the wall. Another connection that I can make to the book is a Text to World connection. I’ve seen many NHL players that have had doubt in themselves and are scared of making the team. This reminded me of the book when Humpty Dumpty was scared of climbing the wall. A final connection that I can make is a Text to Media connection. I’ve listened around in the Track and Field news and people were saying that Justin Gatlin has a little doubt in himself of winning an Olympic gold medal. Overall, this book is good for kids that have doubt in themselves and want to get more confident.

The Noisy Pain Box: The Colours and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract is written by Barb Rosenstock and is illustrated by Mary Grandpre. The book is about a boy named Vasya Kandinsky, who is one of the first painters of abstract art. Through Vasya’s life he tells the story about and the different sounds and colours of abstract art. I would rate this book a 3 out of 5 because it summarized what abstract art is. However there were some parts of the book where there were hard words to read which would affect younger kids reading the book. I had many connections from the book. One of the connections that I can make to the book is a Text to Self. Ive seen many abstract art paintings and that reminded me of the book. Another connection that I can make is a Text to text. Ive read many books about abstract art and this reminded me of the book. Another connection that I can make to the book is a Text world. Ive seen many abstract art paintings around the world. A final connection that I can make is a text to media. Ive seen many pictures of abstract art on the internet so that reminded me of the book.

There is a book that is written by Marie – Louise Fitzpatrick and illustrated by Marie – Louise Fitzpatrick. There is a book about a little girl who wonders about the future and what it will be like. The girl imagines the future in many ways. The girl also imagines the different places she will possibly be in and how life will be there. She asks a lot of questions like how long it will take her to get to that place that she imagining about. At the end she decides that she will be going to that place.

There are many connections that I can make to this book. One connection that I can make to the book is a Text to media. I have watched many movies about looking towards the future. Another connection that I can make to the book is a Text to self. Ive read a book about looking towards the future. Another connection that I can make is a Text to text. Ive read another book about looking towards the future. A final connection that I can make is a text to world. There is a lot of metaphors saying look beyond what you see which is looking towards the future.

The Book Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa written by Jeanette Winter and illustrated by Jeanette Winter is a book for 5 – 7 year olds. The book is about a Woman from Kenya named Wangari Maathai. At a young age, she helps her family farm and also collects wood from a forest. When she gets really good marks in school she gets a scholarship to study in the United States. When she returns to her village in Kenya all of the trees have been cut down. She tries to start planting seedlings. She convinces the other people in her village that planting seedlings is good. So she gives one to each person in her village. When she keeps planting the seedlings the government men laugh at her and say “Women can’t do this”. She just ignores the laughing and keeps planting the seedlings. Other women in the village start planting the seedlings too. But the cutting continues, but that didn’t stop wangari from standing tall and confident. I would give this book a 5 out of 5 star rating because it sends out an important message to the world that cutting trees is not acceptable.

There are many connections that I can make between the book and me. One connection that I can make to the book is that Wangari cares about the environment and the animals that live there, this relates to me because I care about the environment as well and I really like Animals. Another connection that I can make is that when I watched a movie called Rio 2 there were people that were cutting trees down, this relates to the book because there were people cutting lots of trees down and didn’t care about the environment and the animals that live there. A final connection that I can make is that when I was watching the news I so a whole bunch of people talking about the fact of how bad deforestation is a bad thing. This relates to the book that we read because the whole book is about cutting trees and how to stop it.

The picture book The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau is illustrated by Dan Yaccarino and authorized by Dan Yaccarino is a book that is written for kids from ages 9 – 12 years old. The Book is about a person named Jacques Cousteau, he was interested of what lives in the ocean, so he got a team of scientists that made diving equipment and waterproof cameras. Together they made films, movie shows, books so that they could share what they learned about the ocean and teach other people, and they also built underwater labs. When ocean pollution started to happen Jacques Cousteau became a guide to teach people not to pollute the ocean. Overall, I would rate this book a 3 out of 5 because for little kids the words in the book were sometimes hard to understand but the Book had a purpose which made it somewhat interesting.

There were a few connections that I can make to this book. First, one connection that I can make is that Jacques and I both love animals and we love protecting the ocean for example in the book Jacques was doing a lot of research on the ocean just like what I do with different Animals. Another connection that I can make to the Book is that I was reading a book about marine wildlife in the Pacific Ocean and this reminded me about the marine wildlife that Jacques was studying. Another connection that I can make to the book is that I was walking around in a mall in Maui I saw some Shirts that had different Marine wildlife on there which reminded me about the book and Jacques studying the different Marine Wildlife there. A final connection that I had was that I was watching a show called “Be the creature” and it was about the different marine Animals, this reminded me about the book.

The Book “Bats Big Game” authorized by Derek Munson is a picture book which is written for kids that are ages 6 – 10 years old. The Book is about a game of soccer that’s going on in a field, there’s a tiny Bat who wants to join the winning side all the time. He learns a lesson after the game to stick with your own team for the entire game.

There are couple connections that I can make from the story “Bat’s Big Game.” One connection is that I’m pretty competitive when it comes to sports just like the little Bat was when he wanted to win the game. Another connection that I can make is that one time when I was really young I was playing a Basketball Game with my Dad, my friend and my friends Dad. Every single time that the other team scored I wanted to switch teams just like the little bat did.

Overall, the message or theme in this book is to not give up on your team.

The Book Sir Cumference + The Dragon of Pi: A Math Adventure strong authorized by Cindy Neuschwander and illustrated by Wayne Geehan is a picture book for people who love math, and for ages 5 – 10 year old kids. The Book is about a type of potion that changes a Sir Cumference into a fire breathing dragon, Radius tries to change him back. Radius goes on a quest through a Castle and figures out a cure to change him back. I would give this book a 2 out of 5 rating because there were a lot of hard words to understand and I don’t think that younger students would like it. Also because the book is about Math a lot of people don’t like math so it wouldn’t be that engaging for them.

On Feb 21st 2019 my Brother was walking into the house and dropped a few things, so I helped him pick some of his school supplies up from the ground and carried it into the house. The reason why I chose this act of kidness is because if I was struggling to carry some of my School supplies into the house my Brother would definitely help me. So I did him a favour, and it made me feel good inside and it made my brother feel loved and respected.