Pros: full of humanity, child bravery, culture ,history, wonderful information on storks Cons: slow beginning; due to time period, some sexist ideas (women at home while men go to sea, girls can't do things boys can)
What a wonderful, little known discovery! A Newberry Award winner, this story captivated my seven year old so much that we read it through three times back-to-back, and she wanted to begin it all over again!
Pros: Well crafted story line-colorful characters-Educational-Engaging. Cons: Too short.
As home-educators, we first read this story the year we discovered Unit Studies. We began reading this book as simply another read-aloud story but a couple of pages into it, we all knew we needed to stop our normal pattern of schooling and center all our...
Why do the storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest? It was Lina, one of the six schoolchildren who first asked the ...More at Barnes & Noble.com
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