Helen PiersCritiques

"Amelia quisiera tener un perro como mascota, pero en su casa no se admiten animales. Deberá usar grandes dosis de paciencia e imaginación para intentar convencer a su padre". (Descripción editorial).

I love this book! It was one of my first books and I still own it. I actually just read it the other day to my husband! What could be better than a mouse moving into a dollhouse with his friend? And the owners of the dollhouse actually LIKE the mice and feed them? It's illustrated with photographs, no drawings. That's one of the best things about this book.

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I really enjoyed this book. I would use this book as a mentor text for my classroom. It addresses proper nouns like the countries, bolded numbers, ellipsis, and consonance with naming the kinds of animals on the bus.

Piers' book, "Is There Room on the Bus?" is a great book for kids who are learning how to count. It also shows different emotions. Sam, who has a bus, sets to make a trip around the world. Along the way he meets animals who all have different emotions. There are also different amounts of animals at each stop. Students in grades pk-2 would enjoy this book the most and they could even act out each emotion each animal has so they can relate to it and remember it. This can also be a good mentor text for writing about how you feel so students can choose an emotion of one of the animals and write about it.½

We loved this book as kids. There was the appeal of the photographs featuring real mice and other animals, and the cadence of the text made it a fun read-aloud. It was very different from the other books we had.

This is a great cumulative tale.

Sam paints up his bus and decides to go around the world. As he go, he keeps meeting with different animals (in groups of 1 to 10) and saying sure, they can come too. Each time, the whole passenger list is recited again.

Finally, ten bothersome bees try to fit in, and everybody wiggles around trying to get away until they BURST out of the bus.

But that's all right. Sam can build his bus again, and meanwhile, the ten bees buzz away!