Category: Reviews-Bostick Communication(2008)

TITLE: Lady Flatterley
AUTHOR: Linda Wagner
PUB DATE: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4327-3233-2

Thank You to Linda for sending me this book to read and review. My son loved the book. Jerry Hanzel did the layout with his photography. All the background pictures were realistic. The artwork was done by Pearl L. Ollie.

The book is about a shy caterpillar named Lady Flatterley. Who hides in a tree all the time. She dreams of becoming a butterfly. One day she meets a butterfly and the butterfly tells her that one day she will be a butterfly too. Then as winter came she builds her cocoon. When spring came and Lady Flatterley tried to get out but couldn’t she called for help. No one would help her cause they knew when she was ready she would come out. When she was ready she broke out of the cocoon and was amazed at how pretty she was. She was a beautiful butterfly.

TITLE: Queen Vernita’s Visitors
AUTHOR: Dawn Menge
PUB DATE: May 2008
ISBN:978-1-59800-714-5

My son really enjoyed receiving and reading this book with me.

The book is about Queen Vernita and she realized when she is looking at the calendar that its been twelve months since she has seen her friends. So she sents out twelve invitations to twelve friends inviting them to come visit her for a month each.

Each month a friend comes and stays the whole month and they do different things different days of the week.

This is a great educational book. It teaches about the months of year and how many there is, how many days are in a month and the days of the week and what they are. Its a great teaching tool and after reading this my son has asked alot of quesiton about it.

TITLE: The TuTu Ballet
AUTHOR: Sally O. Lee
DATE: September 5, 2008

This is such a cute children’s book. Sally the author is also the illustrater. She has written and illustarted 21 books. This is her newest one.

Sally takes us to the forest where the students are a bear, fox, mouse and hare who are doing ballet. Their teacher is Ms. Berry who was a former ballerina. The students love the class, but the only thing is that they excel each in one particular part of ballet.

Belinda the bear loves to do high kicks in the air, Harriet the hare loves to spin until she gets dizzy, Fillipo the fox loves to jump, and Mirabel the mouse loves to plie.

Ms. Berry gets worried that things aren’t going as planned so she decides to design a ballet recital that will high light each animals speciality and love. The ballet was a success it was the best ballet ever.

TITLE: The Dragonfly Secret: A story of Boundless Love
AUTHOR: Cleo & John Adams
DATE: October 2008

This is such a beautiful story. I was in tears reading it. When my favorite aunt passed away I had gotten little signs like that. Its nice to know that there can be signs out there. My son loved the book.

The illustrations are beautiful in the book as you can see below. The book is about a mother and father who are grieving the death of their son and the fathers parents. David uses the dragonfly to get the attention of his parents. He gives the dragonfly three things to do for him the next day in the garden. All which Lea, the dragonfly does.

Its a beautiful story about love and hope that transends all bountries.

This picture is the part in the book where he is asking the dragonfly to do three things for him. “You have message to deliver, a promise so true, it can only be carried by a dragonfly like you.”

“The tenderness in her eyes drew Lea closer. The air around her became warm. The flowers and grass brightened.”

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