The book Wanted: The Perfect Pet written and illustrated by Fiona Robertson is a picture book for the age 6-7. The book is about a boy called Henry. What Henry wanted more than anything in the whole wide world  MORE than chips  MORE than a cowboy costume  MORE than an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon was a DOG. One day he put an ad in the newspaper saying he wants a dog. A duck saw it and went to the house. Although the boy was disappointed with the duck they became best friends. One connection I had with the book was I saw a duck. A was at my house and the duck landed in my pool and started quacking. Another connection I had was I really really wanted a dog.  When I was a kid I wanted a dog but I already had a fish so I wasn’t allowed.  The last connection I had was when I watched a movie starring a duck.

The article Do Cell Phones Belong In School talks about kids using their phones in class. Lots of schools think phones in class is great because it helps them learn. Lots of schools think phones in class is a bad thing because lots of kids sneak out to use them. Benefits of phones in the classroom are being able to record videos for a peer that wasn’t here on that day or to help study. Some drawbacks to having a phone in class is an alarm could go off and disrupt the class. Another drawback is people could be off task. I think the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. I think cell phones will be banned in schools because they disrupt peoples learning.

The book After The Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again written and illustrated by Dan Santat is a picture book for the age of 7. The book is about an egg that fell off a very tall wall. After the fall he was afraid of heights, so he built a plane to be with the birds again. One day the plane landed on the wall so he went up to get. He was very afraid but once he got to the top he lost his fear and hatched into a bird that can fly. One connection I had to the book was a text to self. I the connection because when I was 5 years old and I was extremely afraid of heights. Another connection I was a text to text. I had this connection because my dad used to read me a story about Humpty Dumpty and how he had a big fall. The last connection I had was a text to media. I had this connection because I once watched a documentary on the Great Wall of China.

The book The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors And Sounds Of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock and illustrations by Mary Gradpre is a picture book for the age of 9. Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers like a proper artist. But as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the colours, then he heard a strange sound the colours sounded like an orchestra tuning up for a symphony. And as he grew older, he continued to hear brilliant colours singing and see vibrate sounds dancing. I had a few connections to this book. The first one was a text to text. I had that connection because I once read a book about a famous painter named Vincent Vangoo. The last one I had was a text to self. I had this connection because whenever I went to my grandpa’s house we would do abstract art. I thought the bok was pretty good because the illustrations were cool.

The book Wangaris Trees Of Peace: A True Story From Africa is a picture book  for the age f 7-8. The book is about a woman named Wangari.  She and her mother helped get firewood. She worked really hard at school so she  got a scholar ship for new York. When she came back all the trees are gone for buildings. She starts a farm for baby trees then she convinces women in her village that trees are good. The government laughed because woman cant plant trees. The word travels that the green belt came back to her village. But the cutting continuous she protects the last remaining old tree. The hit her with clubs and put her in jail. But the talk of the tree spread all over Africa and woman started planting more trees. I had some connections with this book. The first connection I had was a text to self. I was connected to the book because when I was younger I ate a lot of apples and then with the seed I planted them in my yard but they never grew. The second connection I had was a text to text. I was connected because my dad one time told me a story were when he was young his first job was planting trees. The last connection I had was a text to media. I was connected because I one time watched a movie where the main setting was in a forest.  The whole world hers of her trees and the woman who planted them. I liked the book because the illustrations were cool.

The book The Fantastic Undersea Life Of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarina is a picture book for the age of 7-8. The book is about a man who loved the sea and wanted to share its beuty to the world. When he was young he got into an accident the doctors said he was gonna have to use arm braces for the rest of his life but he refused and turned to the water. He and a friend created a aqua lung. He found ways to take pictures underwater. He bought a boat and turned it into a research lab and a TV studio. He invented things that could go really deep. Then he went to Antarctica and saw penguins. Cousteau wanted to see if people could live under water. When Cousteau went diving at France he found a sunken ship with 2000 year old wine. Cousteau created a school for people to learn about the ocean. I had a few connections with this book. One of those connections was a text to self. I was connected by that because a few years ago I went to mexico and went snorkeling and saw a fish. Another connection I had was a text to text. I was connected by that because  I once read a book about a person who loved to go diving and that person pretty much lived in the sea. Another connection I had was a text to world. I had a connection because there is a lot of things I read on the news where it is about pollution in the water. My final connection was a text to media. There was a connection because I one time saw a movie about divers saving underwater animals from pollution. I really liked this book because I really like to go swimming.

The book Enemy Pie by Derek Munson is a picture book for the age of 6-8. The book was about a little boy who had an enemy so he told his dad so his dad made a pie and told the boy you need to be nice to him for 1 day. The next day they were friends. One of the connections I had was a text to self it connected with the book was one of my brothers left for spring break for a rugby camp. That was connected to the book because at the begging of the book the boy was talking about how his summer was perfect because hi sister went away to camp. Another connection I had was a text to self I was connected because the boy and his dad built a tree house. A long time ago me and my dad built a tree house in the summer. When the book mentioned that they were bouncing on the trampoline that reminded me of a time were me and my friends were bouncing on a trampoline.

The book Sir Circumference + The Dragon Of Pi: A Math Adventure written by Cindy Neuschwander and illustration by Wayne Geehan is a picture book for the age of 7-10. The book is about Sir Circumference drinking a potion that turned him into a fire breathing dragon. Radius found a cure in the potion room but it had a riddle if they used too much he would have been a dragon forever. The nights saw the dragon and wanted to attack it in the morning. Radius had to find the circumference of the dragon. The book was really good because the words they used made it funny.

Today my brother was tasked with doing the dishes but he said he had a lot of homework but my mom didn’t believe him so I volunteered to to do the dishes instead. This made my brother feel good because he had a lot of homework and if he didn’t get it done he would get in trouble. This made me feel good to finally see my brother happy.

Today my little brother tripped and drooped his papers all over the ground and then he went to his room crying. I felt really bad so I picked them up and gave it to him. This made him feel a lot better because he didn’t have to go through the pain and stress of picking these papers up. This made me fell a lot better because I turned his frown upside down.