As a student teacher, I found this book really wonderful to read to children during a Guided reading lesson. The kids and I had an interesting time trying to figure out what was going to happen next! It will be good when the book comes back on on the shelves again.

Come join the Beneada family reunion! Ester and Fester return home from the store to find their home full of relatives? The crazy relatives have them fill out name tags to try and decide who they are. Are they the famous family circus act? All the Beneadas run into the kitchen to practice their favorite circus acts for them. Are they the famous Dinky Donut store owners? The Beneada's do their best donut impressions as they sang the famous Dinky Donut jingle. Are they the world-renowned doctors of belly buttons? Ester and Fester seemed very shocked as each relative begins to show them their belly buttons! Oh my, they couldn't be their distant cousins who escaped from prison-- could they? As mayhem descends the home,Ester and Fester decide to ask who in the world they might be. As the Beneada family tell of their wonderful family reunion gathering they realize they are at 236 Rosebud Lane instead of 239 Rosebud Lane. As Grandpa Sam blows his whistle the whole Beneada gang files out of the house, chips and all, and begins their actual family reunion down the street. This book is wonderfully written and has unforgetable characters. Come join the reunion fun with the Beneadas as you reminisce of your own family reunion!

I used this book with a third grade class to help with teaching bar graphs. The kids loved it, and the illustrations are great! The end of the book supplies the teacher with different activities to try.

I used this book to introduce bar graphs to my second grade class. The lemonade sells for 25 cents a cup so it also made an excellent lesson on money and place value. The children really enjoyed the illustrations.

I thought that this book would give me great tips for my Lemonade Sales. So right when I got it, I read it to see how my sale could be PERFECT. I am so mad when I read it, for it was things I MYSELF figured out! There were only a few tips, but this had nothing to do with making money, and isn't that what Lemonade Sales are all about!

This is a very enjoyable story. It's about the Elm Street Kids Club selling lemonade to raise money to rebuild their clubhouse. They decide to chart their progress to see how they are doing by using a bar graph. This book teaches children how to use a graph and the concepts of more and less. The illustrations are also enjoyable, showing the kids dressed up as lemons to market their lemonade stand. My son is 2 1/2 and enjoyed the story. I can't wait to be able to use this as a math lesson. There is also a sections at the end of the book that discuss using a bar graph in different ways to help your children learn.

This book is about kids who go to Seal Island School. Every year they get a new teacher because they think the island is to lonely. (There's only 42 people on it) Pru, one of the children, really likes the new teacher Miss. Spencer and is afraid she'll go away like all the other teachers. Pru finds out that Miss. Spencer wants a dog, so she and her friend Nicholas work hard to raise money to buy one. I'm not going to tell you what happens in the end because I think you should read the book!

This story of a two-room school house is the perfect beginning chapter book for young readers. It has likeable characters who make the story believable, and descriptions that help the reader picture the island community in their mind. This would also be a wonderful "read-aloud" book for teachers of students in the second,third, and possibly fourth grade.

I like this book because it is exciting and it is funny. They go on a class trip and get lost and that is just the beginning of their adventure. There is more to this story and you should read it and find out what else happens. This is a good book for second graders.

This book is silly junk. I find few redeeming qualities in it. The events contain magic without making sense, and the story line leads to no relevation and a stupid conclusion. It is a waste of money!

"One fine day, from out of town, and without any warning at all, there appeared a magic hat." So begins Mem Fox's marvelous new picture book, and youngsters are in for a delightful treat as they watch this attractive, blue chapeau drift through the countryside, landing on unsuspecting heads and turning them into animals. Her engaging, rhyming text is full of energy, rhythm, and motion, and little ones will enjoy helping you read the repetitive lines, "Oh, the magic hat, the magic hat! It moved like this, it moved like that!..." as the hat travels on its way to a new head. Tricia Tusa's bold, bright and humorous, action-filled illustrations are full of lots of expressive detail that just adds to all the fun. With a joyous, satisfying ending that sets everything right, The Magic Hat is a magical, rip roarin', read aloud, good time that preschoolers shouldn't miss.

One in a long line of irresistible Mem Fox titles, The Magic Hat is a delightfully simple book, which my kids love already (after just two days).

There are twin bats whose names are Fangs and Flapper. These twins do everything together, including reading, playing sports, and flying into the night. One day during reading class Fangs discovered he had a loose tooth. He showed it off to all his friends and classmates. Flipper wished he had a loose tooth too. Fangs just couldn't wait for his tooth to fall out. That night at dinner Fangs bit down on a piece of bread and out fell his tooth. Fangs anticipated the tooth fairy's visit. Flapper was so jealous because he didn't have a loose tooth. Have you ever been so jealous that you would do anything to make the other person miserable? Well thats how Fang felt and he did something terrible to Fangs. If you've ever felt this way I'm sure you can relate to this book. I would recommend this book because I know everyone has had an experience like this at some point or another so its easy to understand.

Cookie Contest is a cute story about recipes and friendship. Since recipes use mathematical concepts, a teacher could use it in the classroom to review mathematical concepts (e.g., 1/2 cup of this, 1/4 ounces of that).

Don't let any of today's youngsters know that this book exists--they would hoot in derision! Yet this is a luxury edition of the 1903 musical operetta by Victor Herbert, including some music. Accompanied by wonderful illustrations by Victoria Lisi, this volume has preserved the script and even lists the turn-of-the-century cast.

Sugary tale about a stereotyped rich and hateful villain trying to force a sweet young thing to marry him. Many children and even some toys help foil the miser, when he invades the sanctity and threatens the innocence of Toyland itself. The script abounds in terrible puns and a simplistic plot--virtually impossible for kids of the 90's to appreciate.

Toys and dolls plus a kindly toymaker come to the rescue, as the youngsters from Mother Goose Land flee to Toyland to further their dreams and escape their nightmares. The little old Toymaker speaks as the true spirit of Christmas about the importance of bringing joy to young children. Browse this lovely edition whenever you want to return to those ingenuos days of yore--Childhood!