Wangari’s Trees of Peace written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter. Wangari was a young girl in Kenya and every year more and more trees get cut down. She was afraid that soon all the trees would soon be cut down. Wangari shines in school and she wins a scholarship to study in America. Six years later Wangari returns to Kenya and she wonders where are all the trees. She realized thousands of trees have been cut down and no one has planted new ones. Wangari starts by planting nine seeds in her backyard and eventually planting more and more every day and more people start planting seeds and soon all over Kenya the trees were starting to grow back. A text to self-connection I have to the book is one very cold winter my mom had planted a lot of plants and they had died that cold winter and so we had none left. So in the summer, I decided to plant tomatoes. Another connection I have text to text is when I was reading the newspaper with my dad and I saw that a ton of trees was being cut down and animals were dying because they had no habitat anymore. A text to the world I have is that trees aren’t just being cut down in Kenya they are being cut down all over the world and wildlife are loosing there habitat. A text to media connection I have is even on big websites like Sportsnet there are ads to help supporting wildlife habitats being cut down.

The Fantastic Undersea Life Of Jaques Cousteau written and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. This book is about this boy named Jaques Cousteau who liked the ocean a lot but he was in a bad car accident when he was younger and was told he would have to wear a brace and wouldn’t be able to many things. He decided to start to swim even tho he was told he couldn’t do anything like this but Jaques always loved the ocean and he decided to buy a camera and take pictures under the water of all the amazing creatures. He went to many places filming and taking pictures of the sea creatures underwater with his crew. One connection I have is when I was in Hawaii snorkeling and I saw amazing fish and some turtles and some cool coral. Another connection I have about this book is how I was reading this other book about the sea and people have found valuable things in the water while scuba diving. A connection I have about the real world is when I was in Hawaii a few years ago and I had an underwater camera and I took some cool photos of interesting fish and turtles.  When Jaques was under water taking pictures the fish this reminded me of when I was watching the news with my dad and we saw that people were finding incredible treasures and unique creatures underwater while scuba diving.

By Deacon

Bat’s Big Game written by Margaret Read Macdonald. This book is about this bat who is playing in a soccer game and every time the team he is playing for is loosing he switches teams. Both of the teams found out bat kept switching teams and bear asked bat what team was he really playing for and bat just said he wanted to win. So they never let bat play again. One connection I have is related to bat because I was in a baseball game last year and the team we were playing wasn’t very good and so are hole team didn’t try that hard and thought this would be a super easy win. As soon as they got up to bat they were hitting the ball really well and we just thought they got lucky. Once we got up to bat they were striking us out and that’s when our whole team got nervous then we realized we had to take this game seriously but it was too late because they had already beat us. We learned from that to always try our best. Another connection from the book is when Connor Mcdavid has been on a bad team since he was drafted but he didn’t leave his team and always gave hope in them even when they were losing and that’s what bat should have done as well. Finally, my last connection from this book is that a lot of sports players such as Kevin Durant leave there team when they’re not doing well just to win a championship or something big so they just leave there original team and don’t believe in them. That’s what bat did as well.

By Deacon