Charles GhignaResenhas

This is a cute and colorful book for young children. It has a nice flow throughout and helps to teach children the alphabet as well as common words that begin with each letter. This book is put together using the letters to mostly help children to place which animal begins with which letter. However, there are some letters that do not have anything to with animals when I think that they could have. I understand that not every young child is going to know what some of the more not as well known animals are, but isn't that what helps to make reading a learning process? I think that sometimes there needs to be words that a child would not otherwise know without asking someone to explain to them what the word means or what the word is. The reason I say this is because it can not only help to improve their reading but it can also help to improve the amount of new information obtained through reading the book.

Whole group reading for ages 3-6.

This book goes through celebrating all the great things and people that Alabama has to offer. It is very interesting about what has come from this state and what amazing people there are. This would be good as a read aloud or personal reading for learning geography, for middle grade students like 3rd or 4th grade.

This book walks through the history of Alabama and the people from Alabama who made a difference in the world. This book could be a great book to share with 3rd or 4th graders. Within the classroom, this book could be a great example of state history and kick off a unit on state history research. This book could also be used as an example for a Middle School history project of making books about state history.

Step into reading preschool and kindergarten 1999.
This was a very different step into reading book. It is an older volume but it’s all about how the same word can have two different meanings. All the pages are similar to “the yak yakking” meaning the animal talking. “The bear bearing” meaning the bear with no clothes. While some kids may not initially get it without a dictionary, it is a great way of showing how multiple words can mean multiple things.

A young boy describes all the things he is now starting to see during the fall season. He describes the leaves, the pumpkins, thanksgiving and the trees.

This is a cute, fun rhyming book about primary colors and how to get secondary colors. It talks about colors in nature such as the sun and the sky and apples. The pictures are bright and of children playing together.

I would read this book when we are jittery for summer time and want to dream about summer a little. Maybe even write about what we want our summer to be like?

A book to show the season of fall.

A nice collection of short, readable, and sweet love poems. They aren't pretentious or overly complicated, and they're a relatively modern style. I enjoyed reading them all, but one really stood out enough that I want to share it.

So Many Things
How is it
you always
get me to do
so many things
I would not do
without you,
so many things
that take us
out of ourselves
and bring us back
a little closer,
so many things
our separate hearts
would not have known,
would not have loved,
alone.

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"Feel that springtime breeze? Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with adorable animals frolicking in the springtime wind." -- GoodReads

"April showers bring May flowers! Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience springtime rain." -- GoodReads

"Who doesn't love springtime sun? Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience spring sunshine." -- GoodReads

"Springtime weather can bring big storms. Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience springtime hail." -- Amazon.ca

This simple, sweet book is a great gift for any writer and, really, any reader. Dear Poet is not a long, formal instruction manual on writing (which can be a turn-off), but is instead a glimpse into the creative life. With short, memorable pieces, Charles offers advice, defines what a poem can be, and provides thought-provoking words of wisdom based on his many years as a poet. While it's perfect for someone just beginning the creative adventure, it also serves as inspiration for those who need reminding as to the powerful effect artists have on the way we see the world and why it's so important that we continue to add our voices.

"The path / to inspiration starts / upon a trail unknown. // Each writer's block / is not a rock. / It is a stepping stone." © 2019 Charles Ghigna, Dear Poet: Notes to a Young Writer

This is a beautiful story told in rhyme about restoring the natural environment. The town is all concrete with no plants or trees. When a crack appears in the concrete, seeds are dropped by birds, the wind blows in seeds and plants begin to grow. The town is renewed with plants, trees and gardens and animals that come to make their homes in the new growth. A magical story that could be used when studying the environment and habitats. The illustrations are beautiful and add so much to the story. A great addition to any library: home, school, classroom or public. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley

Ghigna's The Night the Forest Came to Town is a children's tale in verse about one magical evening when a spring wind blew seeds down into a grey town. Over the course of the night, rain showers set the plants to flourishing, and animals arrive, to build nests and dams. Come morning, the town is no longer grey, but a riot of colour and greenery.

I read this with my cubs, and they loved it. I myself enjoyed the poetry, though the whimsy of the tale was somewhat lost by my own understanding as an archaeologist, of how nature actually reclaims towns, in that they are usually abandoned… Otherwise, this story had a somewhat sinister note for me. A horror story akin to The Happening. Just me, I know. And I know the point of the story is we shouldn't try to eradicate nature from our cities. That life will always find a way. The children in the story seemed happier with the flourishing nature, and to notice it more. There's one adult dude always on his phone. But come morning, the adults can't help but notice.

***Many thanks to Netgalley and Orca Books for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Silly rhyming book that talks about counting and sets. Great math read.
1 book

Simple rhyming text follows a child who plants flower seeds in a garden and loves to watch them grow.

Informational
children discover that planting seeds is an exciting adventure that is good for the earth.
no plot
3-5yrs

I love this book, I am using it in class and at home also my students and brother and sister learn their shapes. This book open kids eyes to the fact that everything around them is a shape whether its big or small, before i could try to point out the shapes my students were screaming, "it's a circle, it's a square," I love that because it showed me that they are understanding what we are teaching them during morning circle.