Happy Wednesday my friends.

 

I hope it is a glorious fall day wherever you are in the world.  It is beautiful here and I am so glad I was able to be out and enjoy some it.  Today I am going to write about a favorite fall book that I read to my students when I was teaching every fall.  They loved it too.  I hope you and your children will enjoy it too.  It is a great book to purchase and read every fall.  It has beautiful illustrations and many of them are embossed.  SO the children can feel them . It is an amazing book.  It is called The Lonely Scarecrow.

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The Lonely Scarecrow

by

Tim Preston

 

    I have already said it is an amazing book and that younger kids will love it.  I love it and I just read it again before I started writing my post. It also has some great vocabulary words that you might want to discuss with your child before you read the book.  Some words that you might want to discuss are jagged,marooned,churning,ravaged, vanished, and thaw.

 

    The Lonely Scarecrow sits in a field all alone and he is very lonely.  He wants to be friends with all the animals he sees scurrying around the field.  The animals though are afraid of his flapping coat and jagged metal mouth.  As the swaying wheat grew in the field the scarecrow stood all alone and he was very lonely.  Then the combine monster comes to harvest the wheat and the lonely scarecrow is just left standing in the barren field.  Then the winds started to blow and the scarecrow got even lonelier, for he knew winter was coming. Snow fell heavily one night and transformed the lonely scarecrow into a friendly snowman.  All the animals came to see the friendly snowman and play on and around him.  The the snow started to melt and the scarecrow wondered if his new friends would stay around after he was the scary scarecrow again and not the friendly snowman.  Please check out this book at the library or your favorite bookstore. You will enjoy it!!!!!

 

 

The kids would love making cut or ugly scarecrows after they read the book.  

 

 

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The Mystery of the Runaway Scarecrow

by

Elspeth Campbell Murphy

 

  This book is for 9, 10, 11 year olds.  It is a mystery about the disappearance of Buster the Scarecrow.  Buster is a popular feature of the Fall Festival in Fairfield.  It is also about Sarah-Jane, Timothy, and Titus from the Three Cousins Detective Club.  It seems Buster is gone and left a note saying that he's tired of standing around and would like to travel!  Everyone is a buzz in Fairfield as to who wrote the note.  The TCDC is on the case .  So read the book to find out who took Buster and why.

 

  This is a Christian book and the author has written several of the books all detective stories.  So check out Elspeth Campbell Murphy if you like good Christian detective stories.

 

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See you Friday with more great books,  Happy reading and please share a comment about the blog and what you would like to see here.  Thank you.