Reading Adventures with Ms. Dobson

We Are Water Protectors  Author: Carole Lidstrom  Illustrator: Michaela Goade  Caldecott Medal Winner of 2021  -This book had absolutely wonderful illustrations throughout the entire book. All of the pictures were very lively, vivid, and flowed with the story wonderfully quite literally and figuratively. The story is about an Ojibwe girl and the Dakota Access Pipeline that was contaminating their drinking water. She unites all of her people to stand up for their land and all of the beloved creatures who reside and rely on the water. This book most certainly qualifies as a picture storybook as the pictures and words work together to bring one another to life.  The Undefeated  Author: Kwame Alexander  Illustrator: Kadir Nelson  Coretta Scott King Award Winner 2020, Caldecott Medal Winner 2020, Newbery Medal Honor Book 2020 -A wonderful dedication to the African American history that is so deeply rooted in America. The images that graced the pages te...

  The book I choose for this week’s blog post is, “Bear Came Along”, written by Richard T. Morris and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. This book was a Caldecott Medal Honor winner book for 2020. This book had such wonderful illustrations that flowed with the entire book. The words on the page even matched the theme of that particular page as well. The illustration also did a good job of bringing out the bear and various animal personalities through the illustrations. This book was about a bear who continuously made new friends on his way along the river while riding on a log. Throughout the journey, the bear picked up a frog, turtles, a beaver, a few raccoons, and a duck. They come to a waterfall that has a steep drop and each animal holds onto another animal until they are all conjoined together while having a blast enjoying the ride down the waterfall together. All in all, the book would be also read to younger children and would be a great way to introduce them to new animals. With t...

     I choose the Caldecott book winner from (1979) “The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses” by Paul Goble. As you read the book and looked at the marvelous illustrations that help in bringing the words on the page to real-life imagery. It also adds more aspects to the storying being told through sight and not with words. It made me think of the saying that we often have for life itself, “There are no words to describe…” Often times things are better left to one’s own imagination or personal experience whereas being told with actual words sometimes cannot give the subject or event enough justice. I personally thought that this book reminded me of one of my favorite movies when I was younger titled, “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”. It was too about a group of wild horses and also Native Americans. This story, however, was about a girl who ended up going on to live with the wild horses and eventually becoming one of them. The brightly, vivid, colored illustrations helped make th...

       As a child, I remembered reading various books about horses, Junie B. Jones, and the Magic Tree House series. Most of these books were centered around adventure although, I feel that the books that had the greatest effect on me were the ones mostly about horses. I had always dreamed of having/owning a horse one day and at the time was taking riding lessons in order to learn how to ride and take care of the most beautiful creatures God created.      Even though I liked reading about these marvelous creatures, reading was not something that I necessarily enjoyed, but did in order to make good grades in school. In our school, we had a system called, “Accelerated Reader” where you were tested over a book you read and different books were worth a certain amount of points called, “AR points.” In order to make good grades in Language Arts/English class, you had to receive a certain amount of AR points within a six weeks period. At the time I personally...