Module 15/SLIS 5420/ December 7-10

It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families

by

Robie H. Harris

Bibliography

Harris, Robie. It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families. Candlewick, 1999. ISBN. 07636-0051-2

Summary

In clear understandable language,this book discusses reproduction and how babies are made. The book discusses such topics as, love, sex, gender families, heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual abuse, HIV and AIDS. The comic style art work is fun while being serious about the subject at the same time The book helps elementary school children understand their bodies, and the reproduction process.

For the Young at Heart

A well put together book on reproduction that is not intimidating to children. The comic depictions are fun and the language is simple to understand. I will recommend this book for parents who need a book for their children on reproduction. I have several copies at my library.

Reviews

The oversized, attractive guide on reproduction an birth anwer common questions such as "Exactly what is sex?" and Where does the baby actually come out?"

School Library Journal, February 1, 2000

This simple and straight forward prose focuses on reproduction and birth, including information on eggs, sperm, male and female body parts, the multiple meanings of sex, fetal development and delivery, family composition, and "okay touches" and "not okay touches."

Booklist, January 1, 2000

Suggested Activities

I will recommend this book to children and their parents looking for a good book on reproduction. I have copies at the public library with plenty of circulation activity.

Module 14/SLIS 5420/ December1-6

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You:Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together

by

Mary Ann Hoberman

Bibliography

Hoberman, Mary Ann. You Read to Me. I'll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together. Little Brown, 2005. ISBN. 978-0-316-14431-5

Summary

Mother Goose Nursery rhymes are turned into very short Mother Goose rhymes that are out of the norm. I called them fractured Mother Goose Nursery rhymes. The rhymes are to be read aloud, and colored text is used, so the reader will know which part to read. The illustrations by Michael Emberley are colorful and funny. The Mother Goose nursery rhymes are longer than your normal Mother Goose rhymes, so they can be read aloud with an adult together.

For the Young at Heart

This is a fun book to read aloud. I enjoyed it, and I had one of my regular patrons whose in the 2nd grade to help me read the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. The child was having so much fun they did not want to leave their reading and go home.

Reviews

Both the illustrations and text are set against clean white space for ease of reading. In addition to sharing in two voices, this book is also ideal for choral reading and classroom activities. An author's note provides additional suggestions.

School Library Journal, September 2005

Felicitous rhyming, clear page esign, and well-sequenced pictures all work together to make the book a two-on-a-truffet treat

Horn Book Magazine Reviews, April 2005

Suggested Actvities

I would use this book during National Library Week as an activity to read loud together child and adult.