Just a Dream

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Summary: Just A Dream
Review: Chris Van Allsburg has done it again. This book helps kids get a better understanding of why being a litterbug isn't cool. His illustrations are awesome. I wanted to be able to be in the pictures with Walter (the main character). Everybody that litters should read this book. Our world would be a more beautiful place.

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Summary: Be Careful Which Dreams You Make Come True
Review: Chris Van Allsburg's wonderful illustrations and gently chiding lesson about protecting the environment make an important addition to children's literature that is also very enjoyable to read since it is told with characteristic humor and warmth. What changes would you make in your lifestyle if you, like the story's young Walter could see into the future and discover the ramifications of your actions? Walter is fortunate to travel into the future to receive his "wake-up call" while we must use our conscious minds to create a happy future one act at a time as we live in the now. This book can be our dreamland trip into the future and help us make needed changes.

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Summary: Just a Dream
Review: Just a Dream is an incredible story. It is inspiring for kids. I love the books Chris Van Allsburg makes. It's like he is makng it both meaningful and entertaing too. All of his books teach you a lesson and that makes a pefect ending. The story that I like best is Just a Dream. The story is extremely cool. The pictures make you think that it is a real. This is what the story is about. A little boy goes travleing in his room, but he is just asleep. It is trying to tell him he needs to change things so he can save our nation,but it takes more than one person to take care of Mother Earth. We all need to read Chris Van Allsburg's book.

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Summary: Just a Dream
Review: Just a Dream is an incredible story. It is inspiring for kids. I love the books Chris Van Allsburg makes. It's like he is makng it both meaningful and entertaing too. All of his books teach you a lesson and that makes a pefect ending. The story that I like best is Just a Dream. The story is extremely cool. The pictures make you think that it is a real. This is what the story is about. A little boy goes travleing in his room, but he is just asleep. It is trying to tell him he needs to change things so he can save our nation,but it takes more than one person to take care of Mother Earth. We all need to read Chris Van Allsburg's book.

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Summary: Just A Dream
Review: There is a littlle boy named Walter. He did not care about polluting or littering ever. I think the story is confusing with too many words on a page. I think the dog looks like a cat but only on one page it looks like a dog. Look on page 13 and you will see it.When Walter woke up he ran out side and sorted the cans,nespapers and glass bottles.

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Summary: Just A Dream
Review: This book has stuningly beautiful pictures and a powerful message. Too many of us (children and adults alike) see the future as a place of robots and convience items. This story paints two outlooks on the future. One where nobody cares about the environment and pollution is at critical levels, and one where there is clean air to breathe and people are still happy even if they don't have futuristic gadets. Very nicely done. It keeps the message clear so children can understand.

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Summary: Just A Dream
Review: This is a wonderful book filled with colorful illustrations and it has a great story like to it. I think it is good that the author uses dreams to tell children to keep the world clean.
The author gives to Walter, the boy in this book a very wide imagination. Walter is just a normal boy, and he was watching a television show about this boy living in the future. The boy has a robot and he flew around in a tiny airplane That night Walter went to bed wishing he lived in the future. He had many dreams of the future. He had many dreams of the future. He had many dreams of the future. None of the dreams showed the future he was wishing for. In the end his bed took him to the lawn in between the two trees that he had planted when he was just a boy.
This story shows that the future of great technology is not always the one that will make you happy. The book shows that keeping the world clean is important. It is not always the materialistic things that make this world beautiful. ~Kellie~

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Summary: Children's Environmental Literature Classic!
Review: This is my FAVORITE children's environmental book. Chris Van Allsburg's illustrations are fabulous, as always, and greatly add to the drama of the story. I am an environmental educator and read this book to students (5th-6th grade) at the end of every week at outdoor school. This is a great book to read aloud, especially because of the way the illustrations are separate from the text. What I love about this book is that it is in the end very hopeful. Walter's first dreams of the future show a world of great environmental problems, based on his actions of not caring in the present; but when he changes his ways, the future changes also. I like to emphasize this when reading it to students: The future is not written yet, but we are creating it every day with the choices we make. This is definitely a children's environmental literature classic, along with Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" and Lynne Cherry's "The Great Kapok Tree," but is even better for older children.