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Summary: Kandi's wierd watsons
Review: hi my name is Kandi, I like this book I would give this book to anyone that would like to learn about old stuff this is the book for u.The book is real funny when u get in to it like the first to chapters in it That is when it gets funny. I like how the author put like he put it like he was there. Out of the hole story my favorite person was Joey she is very sensitive in the story.I am a 7th geader at Leland middle school.
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Summary: Britts idea of the wierd Watsons!!!!
Review: The watsons go to bermingham is very interesting book!!!It really shows how life was in the 1960's and how kids close to my own age handled it and when Kenny (a 10 year old)thought his younger sister Joetta was dead I almost started crying!!!! I thought it was cool how Bryan (also known as daddy cool)went from mean and aggervating at the beggning to sweet and inasent at the end and the book was kinda sad and funny and scarry!!!!!! When kenny thought the wool pooh had got him Joetta and Byron saved him and when Joetta was in the curch that got a bomb dropped on it that Kenny saved Joetta!! I think all middle school students should read this enjoyable funny interesting book!!!!! I am a 7th grade student at Leland middle school!!!!!!
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Summary: Daddy's girl reveiw of the wierd watsons.
Review: I would give this book to anyone that I could but I can't.I like this book because it tills about something that happend in real life. I love how the author described the book and the charcters in the book. I think that everyone in america should read this book. I realy love how the author describes the church bombing. It was a great book. I'm a seventh grade student at Leland Middle School.
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Summary: A great audiobook for family car trips!
Review: A friend told us we had to listen to the audiotape of this book on our cross-country trip. What great advice! It kept 3 kids (aged 6-12), and their parents, enthralled. Few tapes, apart from Harry Potter, have held everyone's attention for this long. It also provoked great discussion of some difficult topics (racism, the history of the civil rights movement, bullying, preteen behavior, siblings.....). The book is great, and the tape is really well-done. Thanks, Mssrs. Curtis and Burton!
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Summary: Mr. Sturgill's Class of Ms. Clements's students
Review: It was a great book that taught about every day life. Myisha liked the use of the author's writing style especially in how he developed the charactedr of Byron. Justin liked the end because Byron had shown his real identity and how much he loved his family. Saron felt that Kenny's character was critical to the telling of the story. Mikia liked the book because it held her interest through the ral life adventures that the Watson's encountered daily. Derrius liked the story because he could relate to the character of Kenny. Michael thought Byron was a really good person, especially after having gone through the shock of the church bombing. All of the class believes that this book will help all young readers to gain a better understanding of relations between different races of people. A definite read for all fifth graders!
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Summary: An important book, recommended with reservations
Review: In 1963, I was a white kid attending a predominantly black junior high school in Seattle. "The Watson's Go To Birmingham-1963" rings true to what I saw and experienced in those days.It's true that this story doesn't have much of a plot in the usual sense, but then how many families have lives that are neatly plotted out? Instead we see episodes in the life of nerdish Kenny Watson, his older brother Byron who is always getting into trouble, his little sister "Joey" who is a little angel, their Momma who still has some of the old South in her, and Dad, a loving, but sometimes stern, man. This is an important piece of historical fiction. It shows an intact African-American family, struggling with many of the same things families of other races were dealing with in those days, however one is given a taste of their fear of racial violence as Momma and Dad plan--and take--their trip into the deep South to visit Grandma Sands during those turbulent times. This is an important book, but one I can only recommend with reservations. Some of the situations, and more especially some of the crude language used by Byron and his friends, would cause me to give it a PG rating. I think it's unfortunate that some authors of children's books think it's OK to use language that most educators are otherwise discouraging students from using.
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Summary: "The Watsons" Are Great!
Review: The Watsons Go To Birmingham was the best book I have read. There is so history to be learned from the characters. We really related to the problems that the children faced. We also got a change to learn about life in the 60s when my mom was growing up.
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Summary: Well written and lots of laughs!
Review: This story was so much fun to read. I really enjoyed the full rich characters. I felt like I was reading about my own family. The dynamics of the family make this book remarkable. I cherished every moment of the weird Watsons. The account of the church bombing left me with a chill... Kenny's behavior after the family's return was touching. Christopher Paul Curtis did the book justices by having Byron step up and take care of Kenny. I will remember this one for a long time to come. A must read for summer!
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Summary: An emotionally moving story
Review: The Weird Watson's have the same loving and quirky qualities of many American families. The Watson's will make you laugh and cry. Christopher Paul Curtis makes his reader's really feel they are Kenny. Then when they family experiences the tradgedy of a church bombing in Birmingham, he emotionally pulls the reader in further as if they are living in this trivial time as well. Curtis found a way to communicate the history of the early sixties to children in a very simple and meaningful way. This book would be a great edition to any child's library and I would hope that parent's and teacher's would encourage their children to read this book.
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Summary: Weak
Review: This book could have any other year listed in its title. I waited for something to happen and when it it I had no clue what was going on. The info on the family was nice. I dug that part. But as a teacher I want everything I give my students to have an inpact upon them and this book won't do it.
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