“Chopsticks” is a picture book written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Scott Magoon. I think that this book is directed to kids around the age of 4 – 5 because the moral of the story is something that kids at a young age should learn.

The story is about a pair of chopsticks that haven’t ever been separated. They’ve been best friends for forever. They start to try and help cook things, while they are doing this one of the chopsticks tip break. The chopstick was healing and the other chopstick was by his side for a long time. He couldn’t leave him. The injured chopstick tells him to go off and adventure by himself, the chopstick thinks he can do anything without the other chopstick. The chopstick went away and did things by himself, he learned to stand on his own. The other chopstick healed and they got back together. The learned to be along and not to rely on someone else all the time. They both toasted to “standing on their own and sticking together”.

I enjoyed the story a lot, I would rate it 4.5 out of 5 stars. The book teaches that kids shouldn’t rely on other people to help them because they can become stronger without them sometimes. The book is the sequel to the last PB Blog, Spoon. Just like Spoons illustrations they are very cute.

“Spoon” is a picture book written by Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by Scott Magoon. I think this book is directed to kids around the age of 4 or 5 because the story’s morals is very simple and tell you to like who you are and don’t change who you are because other people might look at you like you look at them.

The story starts with a spoon and showing spoons family Then spoon becomes sad because he thinks he doesn’t do anything very special. He compares himself to his friend knife, fork and chopstick. The it goes into the other people’s thoughts about spoon, they say how laid back he is and always can be silly. The story ends with the spoon realizing that he is special even though he thought he wasn’t. The spoon learned to consider himself special even though he didn’t in the beginning.

I liked the story, it teaches kid that even though you might not think you’re special, you probably are special in some way. I enjoy the illustrations a lot because they are drawn in a very cute visual style that I enjoy.

“Alfred Nobel The Man Behind The Peace Prize” is a picture book written by Kathy-Jo Wargin and illustrated by Zachary Pullen. I think that this book is directed to kids older than normal picture books would be directed too, I think kids around the age of 9 or 10 would like this book because gunpowder and the 1st peace prize is a topic I think only that kids older than around 9 or 10 could probably understand.

The story is about Alfred Nobel creating nitroglycerin and dynamite. His brother dies while working with dynamite and Alfred wants to make nitroglycerin safe to work with. He announces that he re invented dynamite and it is safer to work with. He thought that dynamite would prevent war, he thought if people were scared from it they would end things peacefully. He was very shocked to find out that dynamite was being used for purposes to harm people. In the newspaper it says that Alfred Nobel has died from a heart attack, this turned out be actually be Alfred’s brother. When people started saying that Alfred got wealth from making things to hurt people, he became very sad. He died in Italy and was buried in France. People after made a prize to award people who do something to create peace. It is called the Nobel Peace Prize.

I think that the book was very well written and the illustrations are very creative and look like someone used a paintbrush to draw all of the pictures.

“I Used to Be a Fish” is a book written and illustrated by Tom Sullivan. I think that the book is directed to kids around the age of 8, 9 or possibly even 10. I think that because evolution is a very complicated topic and the book simplifies it. The story begins with a fish that begins evolution by getting off the land and becomes a lizard. During the middle of the book, the fish evolves into a monkey/ape and then turns into a human saying he lost all of his fur. Then the humans start to eat meat and then start building villages, then towns, and then cities. The book ends with modern human civilization. I enjoy the book because of the very simple illustrations, bright colours and a really complicated topic simplified into a short picture book.