Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts

3/13/13

Priddy Books USA Activity School book

Details: Priddy books: United States of America wipe clean let's learn activity book is for ages 3 and up.  Has 26 pages of wipe clean activities.  Children can practice writing, counting, and solving puzzles.  Learn about the 50 states, their capitals, their flags, they're state flower,  insect or tree.  Word searches, missing letters, counting images, finding the differences, and more mini activities per page.  Priddy Books has a large variety of Wipe Clean books available in different age ranges, topics, and places.
My Review: We got this book when my son was 4 years old so that he had an activity to do as we drove across country moving.  In the car he got really bored of it really quickly this is definitely something for parents to work on with their children especially as a school activity or at your regular extra learning activity book.  Now that my son is 6 years old he starting to be able to do it on his own if he can now read a lot of the words understand what he supposed to do with a different activities and puzzles and he's having a lot of fun using this as a school activity book.  He's learning a lot about the USA me he's learning about the states their capitals the United States Capitol.  This is supplementing with other states puzzles and activities that we use on the Kindle, On the computer with books and teaching so that everything is just memorized.  I feel like this is a great tool to use especially for home schoolers.

Pros: fun, great facts, awesome activities
Cons: not for children to do on their own unless they can read. 

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11/3/12

The Bachelor Farmers

Details: A family from Norway comes to America groups of members at a time. When the last 2 brothers arrive in America the family is complete and wealth and prosperity are hard earned. When the Head of the family, the Father passes on and leaves the family his love and life. As the years go on, the younger brothers learn to be great business men, and discover if there is time for love and family or not.

My Review: This was a really great book. The story line was very intriguing because I have Norwegian blood in my family. Farming is always lots of risk, lots of time, lots and lots of hard tiring work. Hans and Jon are very interesting characters. They are strong as a family, but don't always see eye to eye. Brenda is a great author, she has enraptured the beautiful landscape, the love that a family who was broken apart, and brought back together. In the book there is a love scene, though from the book description one does wonder if something occurs or not between the brothers and the woman who stays with them as a cook. Brenda has captured what many movies have in this love that happens. It is very comparable to: Nights in the Rodanthe, Titanic, a Walk to Remember movies. There are no disrespectful descriptions or anything in this matter in the love scene. Simply put, this is a beautiful sad romance book, with surprising closure at the end.

Pros: very well written, a great sad romance book

Cons: sad romances are just that, sad, but that's why many women and men enjoy them

My Rating 

8/30/12

UnBroken

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Details: Based on a true story, Louie Zamperini starts life as a crazy thieving scoundral and gets into so much trouble life is literally going to see him in jail. But his big brother Pete saves the day. Louie becomes a runner, a great runner turns his life around and starts to dream BIG dreams. But those dreams are shattered when World War II starts. He's drafted into the Air Force, and finds a group of wonderful friends that join him in a HELL of a journey to defend, protect and rescue our American Nation. Will starvation, vermin, burtality, deadly cold or blistering heat break this man? Will he come back to his family? What about his friends? Will they survive? Would we be able to handle anything similar or not even similar without breaking? Can we become Unbroken through the motivation found in this wonderful, sad, amazing, horrific beautiful story?

My Review: I read this because a good friend said she liked it. I was really hoping to read this on my Kindle Fire, but the Library got the printed version in before the kindle version. I read this book religiously for 10 days straight 2-3 hours a day. I'm a fast reader, but this book needed to be read in small, slow parts otherwise one could easily get caught up in the sadness, the joy, the horrendous graphic HELL Louie was put through. This is worth the long hours, and the many days to read. Its the best true story book that I've read and enjoyed in a while.

Pros: Motivational, true story with pictures, real facts etc.

Cons: none

My Rating: 2 THUMBS UP!!

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