First sentence: When Priscilla turned six, her dad gave her a book called ALL ABOUT GORILLAS. They read it a million skillion times!
Premise/plot: Priscilla spends a LOT of time in her classroom's thinking corner. It could be because she's a HUGE distraction to the rest of her class. Priscilla is so completely-absolutely obsessed with gorillas that she does not want to learn, at least in a traditional sense of the word.
My thoughts: To teachers everywhere looking for a book besides Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes to read aloud at the start of the year, I give you Priscilla Gorilla.
I liked it. I'm not sure I loved, loved, loved it. Priscilla is an over-the-top character. It's just as easy to forgive her as to get mad at her in the first place. The book is cute.
Text: 4 out of 5
Illustrations: 4 out of 5
Total: 8 out of 10
© 2018 Becky Laney of Young Readers
No comments:
Post a Comment