B. G. HennessyCritiques

Buckaroo Book Award (2007)
School Library Journal (2006)
Publisher's Weekly (2006)

Independent Reading Level: Grades Pre-K-2
Awards: Buckaroo Book Award (2007), School Library Journal (2006), Publishers Weekly (2006)

I think the ending of this is very gentle (i.e. a cop out). The boy is totally supposed to get eaten! But the illustrations are great and I think this is one of the best morality tales out there (especially if the boy gets it in the end).

Independent reading level: Preschool - 3rd grade

This is a fun retelling of classic traditional literature - the moral of the story, always tell the truth. A boy in need of excitement, and not finding it from his sheep, runs into the village crying wolf. The adults come running and find no wolf. The third time there really is a wolf but the adults do not believe him and therefore do not come to his aid. The illustrations are bright and playful. Many scenes are from the view point of a fly, all you see of the adults are their legs running by. Happy story, but I think the added side dialog between the boy and the fly takes away from the story, I must be a purest!½

Come along for Corduroy's Party! Enjoy an afternoon of fun with your child at Corduroy's Party! This Activity Packet includes two books, a bear, and a Corduroy It's a party activity sheet!

Colorful illustrations. Important traditional lesson on telling the trust. I like the story but not this version too much.

This would work really well as a first prayer for kids to memorize and say each night before bed.

Nothing about the presentation pleased me. The map of Peter Pan's Neverland was not really congruent w/ the book.½

Watch Corduroy the Bear lift the flaps to find his Christmas surprises.

Can you imagine what it would be like to have a dinosaur living in your backyard? His footprints would be bigger than your sandbox; he'd make the neighborhood shake like pudding when he walked. He'd be bigger than the car.

And maybe, because he ate plants, he would have eaten all the lima beans.

Do you wish a dinosaur lived in your backyard?

This charming tale tells of a boy dreaming about dinosaurs and, sometimes, wishing there was still a dinosaur around to live in his backyard [and eat all the lima beans]. Delightfully illustrated, the dinosaurs depicted in the pages of this story are sure to be familiar to all young dinosaur-loving readers.

The story is both factual and enticing, sure to bring a few chuckles, and guaranteed to please every young reader who wishes to have a dinosaur living in his or her backyard.

Highly recommended.

A simple retelling of the birth of Jesus with emphasis on the quiet time before the arrival of the shepherds, angels, and kings.

Captures the fun and excitement of the Olympics, from the training of runners, swimmers, gymnasts, and skaters from all over the world, to the workers who prepare uniforms, equipment, the Olympic torch, flags, and medals.

This was a great favorite for a really long time.

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This lovely book is one of the original Corduroy books that I have recently shared with my 6 year old daughter. This tale features the curious bear wandering out of the apartment in search of the perfect gift for Lisa, his human. Seeing the moon and thinking it is a balloon, he chases it and ends up in all kinds of trouble. Luckily, a friendly newsstand owner puts Corduroy up for Lisa to find him. It is a sweet tale of friendship, life in the city, and what is actually important in life.

Simple short sentences
This story is about all the big and little things Dinah Dinosaur finds, including a hole where she fells

A child imagines how his neighborhood would be if a dinosaur would live in his backyard

This is not really a Corduroy book. Corduroy doesn't act like he does in the original books, Lisa't there at all, and the art is in a totally different style. The story is fine, but it's a misuse of the Corduroy character.

Nursery rhyme, fairytales

The Boy who Cried Wolf is a book written by B.G. Hennessey which entails of a young shepherd. The young boy currently desires to teach his sheep tricks, but his sheep seem uninterested. As a result, he cries Wolf to bring himself excitement. This draws the attention of the townspeople who come to his rescue. Nevertheless, the boy calls wolf once again and soon discovers that his sheep have been captured. I believe that the young shepherded brought danger to himself because he was unable to stay occupied. One moment the boy is bored and the next he is running for his life as he tries to escape danger. I believe that this book is great because it teaches students important lessons such as character. Often times when we call things into order they begin to happen if we aren't careful. I would recommended this book because it is amusing and teaches powerful lessons that can be applied to life.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a well-known story paired with colorful illustrations. This story teaches an important lesson about the importance of being honest, not lying to others, and the value of trust. When a young boy tells lie after lie for his own amusement because he is bored, he soon comes to wish he hadn't. After running to help the boy who was calling for help and crying wolf, the people around are tired of the lies and do not believe the boy when he calls yet again. Unfortunately, this time, the boy was nor lying and he suffered the consequences of his deceitfulness.

I enjoyed this book. The illustrations were so vibrant and colorful. I picked this book because my niece loves unicorns, but the book is not based on the unicorn. It is based on a little girl who is trying to figure out what it means to be happily ever after. After her dad read her a bedtime story, she started thinking about what makes one happily ever after. She goes to sleep and starts dreaming about her unicorn and the unicorn takes her to the magical world to ask all the people and animals what it means to them to be happily ever after. She gets many answers, but not the one she wants. She then figures that everyone’s happily ever after is different for every person. She then starts thinking about what her happily ever after is and she can't figure it out. Her dad asks if she has found out what happily ever after is and she says she has many ideas, but she hasn't found the answer. So, he asks her what will make her happy for breakfast and she says pancakes. The book then ends with her eating pancakes, but the answer is still at large. She does know that happily ever after is different for every person, so maybe she will never find an exact answer. I thought the message behind the book was great also because it is true, what makes one person happy might not make another person. Everyone is different!½

I have always heard of the boy who cried wolf, however, I never knew the actual story. The folktale teaches a great lesson on not to lie for attention. The illustrations in the folktale also brings the story to life. The illustration of the big giant hungry wolves looking at the sheep while the shepherd boy runs away is such a powerful illustration. The style of the text is also a great contributor to the folktale. The style and the font of the text is playful just like the shepherd’s personality when he cried wolf because he was bored. The font just adds the slight playfulness to the text that bounces off the illustrations.½