stories edition omnibus materials

books:

12 reviews
Helen Lester

Scholastic Book Company, 1992

Great Moral
This is a great book for kids of all ages. I read it to my fourth graders the first day of every school year, and this year I bought copies for all of the other fourth grade teachers. Pinkerton always has to be first, until his greed teaches him a lesson that allows him to happily take the last seat on the bus.

His Dark Materials (omnibus edition)

10 reviews
Philip Pullman

Scholastic Book Company, 2000

I'd have thought it couldn't be done...
This particular book is an adaptation of the HDM trilogy for the stage...something I'd have bet money couldn't be done. It would be a bear (armored bear? ;} ) to stage, but I'd love to see it that way. Some things got elided, but the main points remain. A real tour-de-force.

Swamp Angel

18 reviews
Anne Isaacs

Scholastic Book Company, 1994

Tall tales of a female Paul Bunyan
This is a story about a female Paul Bunyan, set in the frontier of Tennessee. In 1815, Angelica Longrider was born in Tennessee, she was a large baby and that was only the beginning of her mighty deeds. Angelica grew and grew and grew, until she was so big that she could pick up a wagon as if it was a toy. As they were moving through, many settlers had their wagons get bogged down in the mud and ...

The Defenders

1 review
Ann McGovern

Scholastic Book Company, 1970

America's other freedom fighters
This book profiles three of the great Native American heroes of North America, and how they lead their respective nations against the forces of encroaching white civilization. The three are Osceola of the Florida Seminoles, Cochise of the Navajo in Arizona, and Tecumseh, who tried uniting many tribes in the region between the Rockies and the Appalachians. Each of the three is presented as a ...