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.