Skippy John Jones

If you are looking for a book that any toddler will want you to read, Skippyjon Jones is the book you're looking for! With this great book, the toddler will never want to stop reading (Although, I must warn you, you may get pretty sick of it if your toddler happens to make you read it over and over again)! They sell it at Powells Book store. They also have stickers and blank notebooks so you can buy them a notebook and some stickers ( The toddlers love to put the stickers in the notebook).

They also have it at Borders, Amazon.com, and E bay. There are also Skippy John Jones and the Big Bones, and Skippy John Jones Up and Down. My sister who's 2 goes crazy whenever we mention it!

Skippy John Jones is about a Siamese cat who thinks he's this chihuahua named El Skippito, the great sword fighter. When he starts sleeping in the bird bath, his mama sends him to his room "And don't go into your closet, Skippy," says mama. But inside his room, Skippy John Jones sneaks into his closet to find a gang of chihuahuas in the dessert when he enters his closet door.

Skippy John Jones really draws attention to toddlers, and is fun even for an eight-year-old.

"Aye carumba!!!!!"

Tips To Get Your Kids Interested in Reading

At first, it's really hard getting your children to read. If they start reading pretty early, there's a big possibility that they will grow up and love reading. But if they don't like reading now, that doesn't mean they won't like reading when they're a little older, some learn slower than others. I, a third grader, are all ready writing books because I love to read and as my mom told me, " if you want to read a good book, you have to write it yourself." I thought to myself I want to read a really good book now, so I'm gonna start writing my own books.

Here are some tips to get your kids reading:

First, you probably want to start by telling your kids made up stories or telling them funny or scary stories about your childhood. Keep doing that for a couple months and then one night try reading them a story from a storybook. Keep that up for a few weeks and then have them read you a story every night before bed. after doing that for a while, have them read a book or a chapter from a book to themselves every night. If they seem to like that, after a couple of days try taking them to the library and getting them their own library card. After getting them their own library card, start taking them to the library every week or so and trying out new books. If they start taking too much books they can't even carry, buy or make them a book bag to bring to the library. If they start deciding they want to read a certain book over and over again, take them to the bookstore and buy that book for them.

Congratulations!!!!!!! Your child is cured!!!

Here is a picture of the book bag my mom made me for Christmas that makes going to the library easier.

Harry Potter series by: J.K. Rowling

The Harry Potter series is a great one full of mystery, excitement, fighting, and adventure. That is, if you like mysteries. all though for me, I love them. The full series is called:

#1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone
#2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
#3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
#4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire
#5 Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
#6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
#7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

If you don't like long chapters or romance, I doubt you would like the series at all. But if you don't mind a little romance, I think you would like it. Because teenagers flirt, fight and fall on love, and in the 7th book, there's a lot of romance. But personally, I myself love the series. I'm reading the 6th book right now, and my friend, Annie, all ready read the whole series. So that's how I know about the 7th. The Harry Potter series is about a boy they call "the boy who lived" because there's a dark lord called Voldemort and people fear to speak his name. And Harry Potter is the only human being on earth that got attacked by Voldemort and actually survived.

Harry Potter is an amazing book full of adventure and bravery that has taken over part of my life.

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Rules is a book about a 12-year-old girl named Catherine who has a brother with autism named David. It's titled Rules because David wasn't born knowing rules like you and I were. Catherine had to tell him yourself that the rule is "no toys in the fish tank" and "you take your pants off at the doctor sometimes if the doctor asks you to, but never at the dentist."

Catherine has a hard life with David, and sometimes she thinks "why did god have to pick me to have David? A kid with OCD would be easier." But she can only thank him for one thing: letting her go to OT with him where she met Josh. OT stands for Occupational Therapy. And Josh is a boy she meets at OT who is in a wheelchair and has to use a communication book to talk to other people. But his hearing is just fine (which he doesn't think his therapist knows, because she yells at him every morning "HI JOSH! HOW ARE YOU TODAY?!").

Having a brother with autism is hard sometimes, Catherine knows, but it could be harder in so many ways. This book was really good and I think you should all read it.

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Today in the morning at 10 a.m., I saw the movie "the tale of Despereaux". I must say, It was pretty good. There's nothing really wrong about the movie, but if I were to rate it between 0 and 100, I'd say 80.

What the book is really about is a mouse who isn't like the other mice, but when he got sent to the dungeon for talking to the princess of the castle(which is so strictly against the rules in Mouseworld), he meets a rat who does not eat mice like other rats, does not eat garbage, and even likes light. and he tells him about how he killed the queen by falling in her soup and her dieing by shock and ow he's really innocent since he did not do it on purpose. and when Despereaux finds out that the princess has gotten tricked by the rat, along with the servant that gives her tea every day. the rat tricked the servant into taking the princess to the dungeon and putting them both in jail. the rats find the princess and decide to eat her, so it is up to Despereaux Tilling to save her.

Anyway, i don't want to spoil it for you.

One thing that they didn't have in the book that they had in the movie is this one guy made of vegetables that helps Despereaux get back to the dungeon since he escaped. At first, I thought he was pretty funny. until my mom pointed out that he had no purpose to be in the movie when he wasn't in the book.

"The tale of Despereaux" is an amazing story with complete mystery, bravery, and awesome adventure.