Monday, April 14, 2025

Amazing Grace (1991)

 Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman (1991)  has over 30 resources on the TPT platform, so it seemed like a book I should read. The cover art portrays Grace as a happy, friendly child anyone would want to meet. Caroline Binch’s illustrations deliver on that promise. Grace fills the book with authentic enthusiasm. The first several pages show an child with imagination, a self-starter. So when she must transform her creative play into a real life performance, we know she will succeed. But how? She, like all of us, benefits from a role model. Her grandmother finds one. And Grace is amazing. 


The Hungry Fox and the Foxy Duck (1978)

  The Hungry Fox and the Foxy Duck by Kathleen Leverich (1978) is one of many stories with a deceitful fox as a main character. Paul Galdone...