Hello!
I finally finished reading "Hate That Cat" by Sharon Creech this week. It was the sequel to "Love that Dog," a book that most kids (and me) love. I didn't like this one as much because it seemed too much like the first one and I knew what was going to happen.
Next I read a book called "The Graveyard" by Neil Gaiman. This one won the Newbery Prize for best fiction book last year. It is a lot like the Jungle Book stories where a boy is raised by animals. However, in this book, the boy is raised by ghosts after his parents are murdered. Once I realized that this book was like Jungle Book, I liked it even more because it was fun to pick out the similarities in the plots between the two books.
Do you make these kinds of "text to text" connections when you read? What similar books do you like?
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Ms. P,
ReplyDeleteI sometimes connect book to book - but I just like finding a cool book to read. As a family we are reading Harry Potter Book 6 and all like it but at read to yourself time - Cameron is reading about The Magic Treehouse and Chihuahas and I was reading about Orthodox Jews and Boston Immigration. Mostly I just like to disappear into the book I am reading and leave "here" for a while to walk in my hero or heroines footsteps.
I love the "all over the place" quality of your reading! One of the best things about books is that you can find out about wizards, chihuahuas, Orthodox Jews AND Boston immigration, depending on what you feel like.
ReplyDeleteHappy last drop of summer!