Archive for December, 2009

The Enormous Potato Review

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

By Aubrey Davis

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The Enormous Potato

A farmer plants an eye–a potato eye. It grows and grows into such an enormous potato that when harvest time comes, the farmer can’t pull it out of the ground. He calls for help, first to his wife, then to their daughter, then to the dog and the cat. But it takes all their strength–plus the efforts of one tiny mouse–to finally free the potato from the ground.

Rating: ****

A cute story that discusses community and teamwork. Everyone helps with the potato and everyone gets to share. Your preschooler will love the silly context and learn about helping.


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I Need a Lunch Box Review

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

By Jeannette Franklin Caines

I Need a Lunch Box

A little boy can’t wait to get his first lunch box. He imagines what he could keep in a lunch box and even dreams he has a different colored and shaped box for each day of the week. A straightforward story about a rite of passage.

Rating: ****

Anyone with more than one child knows if one child has it the other will want it too. This story is no different. The book presents the concept of an elder sibling doing something the younger is not ready for yet, in this case school.