Great Reading: Bookmark It!
Volume 30, Number 3, February
2003
Far-fetched Families
Ruth Cox
A far-fetched story. Karin Cates.
HarperCollins,
2002. $15.89. 0-688-15939-7. Grades K-4.
Grandma stitches a “story quilt” from the clothes torn by wild
animals while father, mother and children are out searching for winter firewood.
Old Bob’s brown bear. Niki Daly.
Farrar,
Straus, Giroux, 2002. $16.00. 0-374-35612-2. Grades
PreK-3. When Old Bob (grandpa) gets a teddy bear, Emma
doesn’t like seeing Teddy sitting on a bookshelf
alone. She loves Teddy so much Old Bob lets her take
him home between visits. When Old Bob gets Teddy back,
he’s somewhat worse for wear, but smells of love.
The real, true Dulcie Campbell. Cynthia DeFelice.
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002. $16.00. Grades 1-4. Dulcie
is tired of her farm chores and family and proclaims
herself a princess. She passes by her subjects (the
farm animals) as she makes her way to her throne (the
hayloft). And it is while reading her book of fairy
tales that she discovers her non-princess life is not
so bad.
She did it! Jennifer A. Ericsson.
Farrar, Straus,
Giroux, 2002. $16.00. 0-374-36776-0. Grades K-3. Four
sisters chorus, “She did it!” when mother
asks who left the mess. After being sent to their room,
they clean up their messes and respond with, “We
did it!”
 Ruth
Cox is assistant professor in the School of Education
at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in Houston,
Texas. She can be reached at Cox@cl.uh.edu.
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