Beatrice Schenk de RegniersCritiques

The king and queen invite our narrator to tea every day. Every day, our narrator asks if he can bring a friend, which always ends up being a zoo animal. At the end of the week, the king and queen join him and all their friends at the zoo for tea.

The king and queen invite our narrator to tea every day. Every day, our narrator asks if he can bring a friend, which always ends up being a zoo animal. At the end of the week, the king and queen join him and all their friends at the zoo for tea.

Sing a Song of Popcorn is a child's collection book of poems. This book of poems contains various topics such a spooky poems, story poems, weather poems, fun with rhymes and many more. This book offers such a wide variety of poetry and topics that I believe it would be great for any elementary age K-2nd grade. This poem book offers s wide range of poems that will definitely catch the students interest in at least one poem.

This is a collection of poems for children illustrated by Caldecott Medal artists. They are divided into theme sections, each illustrated by a different artist - weather, spooky poems, story poems, animals, spirits, nonsense poems, haiku poems, and thoughts and feelings. The poems range from ancient to contemporary and poets include Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear and Ogden Nash.

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Laugh-out-loud funny story about a friend of the King and Queen who brings an unusual "friend" with him to tea, to lunch, to dinner. There's lots of repetition for the younger reader. Delightful.

This lovely book is a story of a young boy invited by the King and Queen to tea, and then various other meals and occasions. He wants to bring a friend each time he goes to the castle. He brings a giraffe, a hypo, a team of energetic monkeys, an elephant, a team of lions, and a seal.

At the end, the room is filled with many large animals, and all have a wonderful, fun time.

This is a Caldecott Medal award-winning book. The illustrations are fun and set the tone for a lovely group of giggles from a small child, and adults as well!

I think my main problem with this book is that the little boy never actually asks if he may bring a friend; he simply states that he has a friend he'd like to bring.

2/9/2019 update: I'm also not a fan of the rhyme scheme.

Just a fun book to read aloud with a group or one-to-one. There's animal sounds, bright colors, and excellent repetition. It is great to use with several animal puppets, and I'm not great at incorporating puppets so this an awesome recommendation.

An updated collection of the originally-titled “Poems Children Will Sit Still For: a Selection for the Primary Grades” with Caldecott Medal winning-artists illustrating each section:

“Fun with Rhymes” illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
“Mostly Weather” illustrated by Marcia Brown
“Spooky Poems” illustrated by Margot Zemach
“Story Poems” illustrated by Maurice Sendak
“Mostly Animals” illustrated by Arnold Lobel
“Mostly People” illustrated by Marc Simont
“Mostly Nonsense” illustrated by Richard Egielski
“Seeing, Feeling, Thinking” illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
“In a Few Words” illustrated by Marcia Brown

The poems run the gamut from silly to intriguing; Pauline Clarke’s “My Name Is . . .” is sure to delight young readers with its silly names like Sluggery-wuggery, Jiggery-pokery, and Riddle-me-re while Robert Frost’s classic “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” will evoke thoughts of snowy days and winter woods. Some, like Langston Hughes’s “Winter Moon” or Carl Sandberg’s “Arithmetic” will be instantly recognizable to readers; others, like Karla Kuskin’s “I Have a Lion” or Richard Armour’s “Pachycephalosaurus” are sure to become a young reader’s new-found favorites.

Read it [aloud, please] for the words and the rhymes, explore the pictures . . . this is a book to return to again and again and again.

Several indexes follow the poems: Index of Titles, Index of First Lines, Index of Authors; a brief piece about each of the illustrators is also included.

Highly recommended.

Little Sister is a hard worker and has a very good attitude. She is always positive no matter how difficult her life may be. She continued to sing and hum while she worked even in the mist of all the horrible insults hurled at her from her mean family. This was a great story to demonstrate the wages of positivity and politeness verses the cost of being ill-mannered
and cruel. Wonderful story, I especially like the revision of Cinderella. I wasn't so fond of the small drawing. I didn't think it did the story justice.½

In this book, a child is invited to tea with the king and queen, but the child wants to bring a friend, an unusually large animal friend. The king and queen oblige and then the next day the child brings another friend and so on until eventually the entire zoo is visiting a royal castle.

This is a fun story about a child who is invited to tea with the king and queen and wants to bring a friend. This friend turns out to be a rather large animal. Each successive day the child wants to bring another friend and so on. The illustrations are mostly monochromatic on each page with a featured color.

May I bring a Friend? is a cute, fun story of how a little boy is invited to various events by the King and Queen. He is invited for tea, breakfast, dinner, apple pie, and Halloween. After each royal invite, he asks if he may bring a friend, which portrays the wide-eyed innocence of a child. Children would no doubt get a kick out of who the little boy's friends are: elephants, giraffes, hippos, and lions, etc. As the animals get far more ridiculous as the story goes on, the royal couple stays just as gracious and accepting. On the last day of the week, the boy's friends want the King and Queen to visit them for tea at the zoo, which they happily oblige.
One thing I liked about this book is the song-like rhymes. It almost felt like I was singing quietly in my head as I was reading the story. It would be fun to read aloud to children because of that aspect. Although it won a Caldecott Medal, the illustrations didn't thrill me. However, one thing I did like about Montresor's work was how he only made the drawings of the boy and his animal friends colorful, thus emphasizing the wonder and imagination of the story.
I believe this book ultimately teaches an important lesson of the true meaning of friendship and accepting the differences among us, but in a light and playful manner any child would enjoy.

The book " A Week in the Life of Best Friends" By Beatrice Schenk De Regniers is filled with poems about friendship. In the first part of the book, the author does a good job allowing the reader to know what goes on between two friends throughout the week. At first, the friends seem inseparable, but when a new girl comes to school it seems that the two girls will no longer be best friends. In the end, the author shows that best friends last forever. The second part of the book is poems filled with advice about friendship. The advice section answers many questions young readers might have about friendship and what to do in various cases. Personally, I would recommend this book for early elementary students. Although there are scarcely any pictures in the book this book would be good to read aloud to students.The book could potentially ease some of the students nerves about not only making friends but keeping them as well.

This was a pretty good book and very easy. The actual story ended half way through the book. The story is about a boy named Jack, who wants to defeat this giant. The giant keeps stealing food, crops, animals, and sometimes humans. Jack hides and makes a hole by the giant's home. The giant falls in the trap, and Jack kills him. The second half of the story talks about things giants do that affect humans. For example, when a giant laughs, that is the sound of thunder to humans. I liked this book. I just thought the story was a bit too short.

This is a cute story about a young boy who is invited by the King and Queen almost every day to their house for teas, breakfast, lunch, dinner, Halloween, and Apple Pie Friday. Each time the young boy brings a different animal. The King and Queen always welcome his friends as theirs. In the end, the little boy welcomes the King and Queen to come see him and his friends at the City Zoo for tea.
The illustrations of this book made me think deeper into the story. As you begin this book the pictures are white and plain but as soon as the little boy brings an animal to the King and Queen the pages are full of color. This happens each time he brings a new animal. I believe that the illustrator is trying to tell show us something beyond words. The King and Queen’s life are brightened and made better by the little boy and his animal and that is why they keep inviting them. This would tie into why only pictures of everyone together has color. The animal’s visits make their lives complete. While reading I find that the colorful pages made me more interested and I wanted to look at the details of the pictures more. I was able to notice more compared to what I noticed on the white pictures.

The little man trades his little knife for a wife. After that, he comes across thing and trades them for something he thinks is better. In the end, he realizes he is happy with just his wife. She traded for her husband's little knife and they are happy and complete. They write a song at the end that helps remember all the things the couple has traded for.

This concept book talks about the endearing and peculiar habits of cats and lets young readers know that all cats have their own distinct personalities.

Genre: Poetry
Age: Primary
Review:
This book is a collection of poems selected by different people and illustrated by nine Caldecott Medal artists. The poems range from cute animal poems to poems about seasons and other things.
This falls under the genre of poetry because it is a book filled with poems and poetry.
Use:
1) Read one per day in class as a starter for each day
2) Look at all the different illustrations made by different artists
Ill. Media: Variety of different methods

This poetry book provides poems for all elementary aged children. This book offers a wide variety of poems that are interesting to all children. This would be a great book to use when teaching poetry and rhyming in a classroom setting.

The story May I Bring a Friend focuses on a young boy who is constantly invited to the King and Queen’s place for different types of events. The young boy is portrayed as kind for his actions and witty. He politely asks if he could bring a friend and is granted the opportunity to by the King and Queen. Each time he attends an event, he brings a zoo animal, whether it was for tea, Halloween, Apple Pie Friday, or breakfast, lunch, and dinner, there was some type of animal each time. The story ends with the young boy telling the King and Queen that his friends, the zoo animals, would like them to come visit. The young boy, King and Queen all go to the zoo in order to visit the friends at the City Zoo for tea.

Sing a Song of Popcorn is a child's collection book of poems. This book of poems contains various topics such a spooky poems, story poems, weather poems, fun with rhymes and many more. With such a wide variety of poems children are such to find something they will enjoy reading. My favorite poem from the entire book would have to be by Beatric Schenk de Regniers called "If we walked on our hands." This particular poem if filled with lots of humor and rhyming schemes that children will easily pick up on and find hilarious. This book offers such a wide variety of poetry and topics that I believe it would be great for any elementary age K-5th.

a fun story of a girl making friends
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Billy wants to show his mom that he can make junk into something grand, so he makes a hat for his mom. Then he wants to show her that he can make her the best birthday cake in the world, so he includes all of her favorite foods.. Guess we will see how that turns out.