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Appelemando's Dreams

Appelemando's Dreams

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 4 1/2* Painting the Town
Review: Appelemando lives in a town so dreary that he likes to daydream. But unlike other children, his dreams spill out of his head in bright colors, coloring the drab landscape around him. Furthermore, his young friends accidentally discover that wet objects will hold these color daydreams. However, on a rainy day, his dreams literally paint the town red, and blue, and yellow, and green.

Up to this point, the story is exciting and the illustrations, richly shaded in a slight change from Polacco's more typical style, accurately portray both the drab and the bright. But halfway through, the story turns to a lost children motif, and, somewhat predictably, Appelemando's ability to color the sky leads to their rescue. There's a nice message here about having friends who believe in you and the importance of dreaming, but both the narrative and the pictures are a bit too uninspired for someone of Polacco's enormous talent. The dream that rescues the wanderers is bright enough, but not varied enough.... just designs that spell out "Help Us." and more pictures of animals and smallish abstract shapes. A 5 for any other author, but relative to Polacco's other book, this merits only a 4. Take a look at "Casey at the Bat," "Picnic at Mudsock Meadow," "Thunder Cake," the `Babushka' series, and many others to get a truer picture of Polacco's magnificence.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: 4 1/2* Painting the Town
Review: Appelemando lives in a town so dreary that he likes to daydream. But unlike other children, his dreams spill out of his head in bright colors, coloring the drab landscape around him. Furthermore, his young friends accidentally discover that wet objects will hold these color daydreams. However, on a rainy day, his dreams literally paint the town red, and blue, and yellow, and green.

Up to this point, the story is exciting and the illustrations, richly shaded in a slight change from Polacco's more typical style, accurately portray both the drab and the bright. But halfway through, the story turns to a lost children motif, and, somewhat predictably, Appelemando's ability to color the sky leads to their rescue. There's a nice message here about having friends who believe in you and the importance of dreaming, but both the narrative and the pictures are a bit too uninspired for someone of Polacco's enormous talent. The dream that rescues the wanderers is bright enough, but not varied enough.... just designs that spell out "Help Us." and more pictures of animals and smallish abstract shapes. A 5 for any other author, but relative to Polacco's other book, this merits only a 4. Take a look at "Casey at the Bat," "Picnic at Mudsock Meadow," "Thunder Cake," the 'Babushka' series, and many others to get a truer picture of Polacco's magnificence.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Dreams of Wizdom
Review: I like this book a lot because the illustrator showed Appelemando's dream very clearly. He also used very colorful pictures in his dreams. The book was pretty funny because his friends kept getting hurt by his dreams. All the people kept getting mad at him because he never did anything good. That is why I would recommend this book to you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Dreams of Wizdom
Review: I loved this book. Many times people are judged by what others believe to be right. This book shows that we all have gifts even though people are sometimes blind to them. That is the gift of this book to me, to remember to see the gifts in each person I meet

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Appelemando's Dream
Review: This is a book about a boy named Appelemando and he has a special power. When he dreams itcomes out of his head and into the air. This book is good. I like that the auther wrote about a problem with a hard subject. Also the book had a great ending. This book has very good art. So if you like to dream like Appelemando you should get this book. Jeffrey C.


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