Category: Reviews-PR by the Book(2008)

TITLE: Stanley The Christmas Tree: A Wish Come True
AUTHOR: R.E Hughes
ISBN: 978-0-9820328-0-0
PUB DATE: 2008

This is such a cute Christmas story. Stanley has always dreamed about being picked by a loving family and taken home. Year after year Stanley remains in the tree farm and the other trees make fun of him. Each year Stanley gets stronger. Finally one year he is picked and taken to the city. Finally after a few days an old gentleman picks Stanley and takes him home. He is so excited. He is taken home and decorated.

Then one day the couple get a call from their children and the baby is sick and told they can’t travel and ask that the family goes there. So the couple start to take the decorations off the tree. Then Stanley is put in the alley. Stanley was sad and realized his dream for a perfect Christmas was over.

Then one night Mr. Brown walks by on his way home from the factory and see Stanley. he takes Stanley home cause he didn’t get a tree this year because they couldn’t afford a tree. The couple decorated the tree and Stanley was happy again. When the children woke up they were happy to see a tree. Stanley was happy too.

TITLE: How The Moon Regained Her Shape
AUTHOR: Janet Ruth Heller
PUB DATE: 2007
ISBN:0-9764943-4-5

Thank you to Elaine and Rob for sending me this book to read and review. The book won the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Moonbeam Children’s Book Award. The illustrations in the book are done by Ben Hodson and they are beautiful done in native art.

The book starts with the moon being round and full. She is happy and dances around. Then she dances in front to the sun. The sun tells the moon she is ugly. The moon was sad. She tried to dance again but she kept thinking about what the sun had said. She went along her skypath hanging her head. A comet sees that she is dragging across the sky and goes to visit her. The moon is getting smaller and he finds out why and tells her she should go to see a woman who lives on Earth who will restore the moons health. The moon is almost invisible when she goes to see Round Arms the woman of the Earth. She talks to the moon and makes her feel better when she finds out what the sun has said. She takes the moon around to people who love the moon ie the artist who paints the forest at night, rabbits who feel safe being out at night, and to a hundred women who sing and dance. The moon feels better and goes back to her sky path where is she strong and full again.

A great think about the book was at the end of the book there is all kinds of information about the moon. My son loves learning things and I think this is a great thing to learn about.