A little history, a laugh or two and a beach story

Enjoy a few books with interesting stories from history, one book to make you laugh and one bonus wordless book that I have 'read' over and over.

Melody


Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press by Bruce Koscielniak
Learn about Gutenberg AND all the others who came before him in this easy to read, informative and interesting book. Great for school age kids and adults.








Naming Liberty by Jane Yolen
Join an immigrant family traveling from Russia to America AND the journey of the Statue of Liberty from France to America. The two stories are on opposite pages; this makes it a complex story and suitable for school age kids. Author's notes at end of the book tell us about her family and how they came to America. Do you know YOUR family story?

Sisters of Scituate Light by Stephen Krensky

This true story is engagingly told. Two sisters left in the light house while the family is evacuated hear the British soldiers rowing to shore to pillage the village. Seizing their drum and fife, these two sisters hide in the woods and play the music that troops would play as they marched to battle. The British heard the music and abruptly turned around and rowed back to the ship. Great notes at the end of the book let the reader know that this story was told in magazines in the girl's own words years after the end of the War of 1812.

The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend

And here is your fun to read story! A clever cat creates a perfect nest. He just wants a chicken to come and lay an egg so he can make an omelet. A chicken does find the nest and lays an egg. Then a duck comes by and also lays an egg. Finally, a goose adds her egg. Before the cat can get those eggs, the fowl fight about whose nest this is. Now no one will leave the nest! After days of sitting and fussing with each other, the egg-layers leave, after cat tells them about better nests on the next farm. Finally - omelet time! But, crack, crack, crack - the three eggs hatch and imprint on the cat.

Wave by Suzy Lee
No words, but if you have ever been to a beach with waves, you have probably either had this experience or seen someone else have this happen to them. Exhuberant, happy pictures capture all the joy of being at the beach!