There”, is a weird book written and illustrated by Morie-Louise Fitzpatrick. This book talks about the feelings and ideas of a little kid. The book is rather confusing at the beginning, but in the end, it became more clear and understandable. The kid always wants to go “there”, he/she is curious about everything. In the end, you can understand that the “There” is his/her future and leaving his childhood behind. One connection I made with the book is when the boy/girl wants to go to the future and curious about everything there, I was wondering just like him when I was little. I was wondering if I’m going to be a giant or if I was going to be a small little guy. Another connection I made is that at the end the little kid decided not to go to “There” cause he has lots to do in his childhood, the same happened in a book called “My Little Life” where the main character “Johnny” wants to become a grown up, he kept on trying to act like a grown up and do things like a grown up. But in the end, he wants to stay in his childhood and play as much as he can. This book’s message is tremendously innumerable, it can make a lot of kids stop their idea of becoming a grown up and do, play as much as they can before they can’t.

“Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa” was written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter, and it is book make for an age group of 9-11. The book is about a woman named Wangari who lived in a small village in Kenya. She harvested the crops and shined in school which gave her a scholarship. After she got her scholarship she went to study in America, 6 years later when she came back to Kenya from college she realized that the forest was fully chopped down. She wanted to plant trees so that there would be forests again. She thought that planting trees would bring the old green Kenya back. The government wasn’t happy about it though. They thought that they needed trained men to do all this work. Later every woman in Kenya started planting trees with Wangari. The government even put her to jail for stopping them to chop the old trees down to build police towers. They may have stopped Wangari and the women’s, but they can’t stop the trees from growing. Soon after there was over millions of trees. One connection I made is when Wangari was mad at the government, I was mad at the government too when Justin Trudeau set a tax law for people that have less income here than family members that have income outside of Canada. Another connection I made is that when Wangari got stopped and sent to jail but they can’t stop the tree from growing, I made a connection with a manga called “unordinary” where an author wrote a book about everyone can be a superhero and everyone can fight the evil no matter in what ways, the government is evil and they didn’t like how the book talks about defeating evil so they banned the book, the author of that book went undercovered after that. The government may have stopped the author from producing more books but they didn’t stop people from reading it.

The Fantastic Undersea Life Of Jacques Cousteau is a very good book of Jacques Cousteau’s life adventure and his achievements, this book is for age 7-10. It’s really easy to make a connection with the things in the book, I made a lot of connections with Jacques Cousteau’s life story. A connection I have made is when Jacques Cousteau found his hobby of swimming after a car crash, I have read this book called “The Boy That Flew”. It talks about this boy who got a car crash and then when he was still in the hospital he got inspired by this man and became a runner after he was recovered.

Bats big game is a very good story retold by Margaret Read MacDonald Illustrated by Eugenia Nobati. This story can teach a lot of kids to not care about winning and losing, because winning and losing doesn’t matter that much, all the game is about fun not winning or losing, a game like soccer, basketball or baseball, they are all made for fun, the second part of it is competition, you have to have fun first, and the you compete. The bat in this story loves winning, there is a big soccer game and the bat just want to join the winning team, then he says he is an animal is he got the animal shirt, after a while the birds are winning so the bats asked for a birds shirt, then the animal is winning again so he joined the animal team again, because of that he got kicked out of the game, even though he was kicked out, he learned a lesson.