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Friday, November 4, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Yonderfel's Castle
This book was about a king who is generous and kind to everyone. He allows everyone to stay in his castel for free. When the mean ogre landlord demands more money from the king and the king cannot pay, all his people turn their backs on him. They leave and say this is what you get for having a potatoheadedninny for a king. They all forget his kindness. He is left alone to knit all day and night.
A great flood comes and everyone remembers the castle on a hill and the kind king who lets anyone in. He saves almost everyone from the ragging water. The last person in the flood water is the mean ogre. The king must decide whether to listen to his people and let the mean ogre die, or save him like he did everyone else. The king, being kind and generous, saves the ogre. This is a great book about kindness and how some people do not value kindness - unless it is given to them.
The only strange part is in the end the people see the value in the kings kindness, but the book doesn't really explain how or why they have a change. This whole in the plot could be used as a teaching moment by having students fill in what or why the people where changed. It is a good book - good story, great illustrations.
Monday, May 16, 2011
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