Wings on Things (A Bright and Early Book, Be 26)

Rating:
Summary: Very poor and undeserving of Bright and Early series
Review: Forget this one. I've loved the other books in the Bright and Early, but this is a genuine stinker. The book's "cadence" is uneven. There are stretches where each page has only a brief sentence, and then one page will be jammed with an extremely long sentence. I especially didn't like how it provides very confusing messages for kids... for example, it outlines what sorts of wings are possible, citing examples of wings on animals and insects, and then it cites 'wings' on a couch. It tells kids that there can't be wings on bears and cats, but at the end, it says that there are wings in outer space and shows robots on a distant planet. I just believe that it should either be fiction and let kids dream about possibilities or referential, but not try to be both.

Rating:
Summary: Great Rhyming and Predictabliity
Review: This book is simple enough for any beginning reader. The illustrations are silly and amusing. This book would be great for teachers to use in a transportation, wind, or insects unit. My kids loved the rhythm of the rhyming text, and you will too!