The Diverse Shelves Book Reviews

  HELLO LIGHTHOUSE  BIBLIOGRAPHY     Blackall, Sophie. Hello Lighthouse . Hachette Children's Group, 2019. ISBN   9780316362382 PLOT SUMMARY      “Hello Lighthouse” takes its readers young and old through the later history of the lighthouse before its modernization of automatic lights, and it details the significance of the keeper who lived in the lighthouse and cared for the lamps to keep sailors safe on the sea. The story starts with the arrival of the new keeper of the lighthouse, how he makes it his home, and the daily routines he must keep for the lighthouse to stay running. Soon, the keeper gets lonely in his home, and his wife arrives at the lighthouse, and they make a home together. However, a storm rushes in, and they both must act quickly together, the sea raging, and they must save the sailors whose boat crashed against the rocks. Some time later, the keeper and his wife welcome the birth of a baby girl, and the three make their home in the lighthouse together. Not l

  SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE  BIBLIOGRAPHY Steig, William. Sylvester and the Magic Pebbl e. Penguin Books Ltd, 2018. ISBN 978-1442435605 PLOT SUMMARY  Sylvester Duncan is a little donkey who lives with his parents in Oatsdale, and who loves collecting pebbles of all shapes and colors. One day while outside in the rain, Sylvester found a bright red pebble that was perfectly round like a marble, and he was so excited. It was getting cold sitting in the rain, and he said, “I wish it would stop raining.” And it did ! The pebble was magic, and Sylvester couldn’t wait to tell his parents!  But as he was going home, a hungry lion approached him, and Sylvester was so scared that he wished himself into a large rock to hide! But, the magic red pebble fell when he became a rock, and he couldn’t wish himself back to normal. His parents were worried, and they and the Oatsdale residents looked for him. One month later, Sylvester’s parents came upon Sylvester the Large Rock, and Sylvester was abl

CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE BIBLIOGRAPHY   Jayawardhana, Ray, and Raúl Colón. Child of the Universe . Make Me A World, 2020. ISBN 9781524717544 PLOT SUMMARY      The child of the universe is a bedtime story that describes how each child is unique and precious as the vastness of the universe we live in. The story starts with child looking upon the moon with her father before bedtime, and her father compares her to different parts of the universe, such as how she shines bright as the sun, her curls as swirly as the Milky Way, the galaxies are as wide as her smile, and the cosmos is reflected in her eyes. Her father goes on to compare and describe how his daughter is as unique and beautiful as our universe, and how we are all connected to the universe by very molecules that make up our existence. The child then is tucked into bed and goes to sleep, dreams of the stars and planets that her father described to her.  CRITICAL ANALYSIS      From the very beginning of the story, readers are introduc