Weekly Picture Books

By: Uri Sulevitz

Title: The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century

Genre: Historical Biography, Historical Fiction

Medium: Unknown

Summary: This book is based on a person, Benjamin, a Medieval Jewish Travel. who chose to travel along the Spanish coast and visit many places. Benjamin was regarded by many as the greatest explorer before Marco Polo. He has traveled and recorded many sights that he has encountered on his travels, and he has recorded many events that he has witnessed. This book is considered as a picture book, but the texts was relativity long, but it was meant to be thought-provoking for children to question about religion  many places that Benjamin has encountered and it will encourage students to look into what is outside of the classroom walls. 

By: David Shannon

Title: No, David!

Genre: Fiction

Medium: Unknown

Summary: There was a young boy, named David, he was a such a troublemaker, and he has done many mischievous things. Through the story, you'd see David doing things what every mischievous child might had done, eating with mouth opened or jumping on the bed. His mother has the most dialogues although she was not even shown in the book until the very last page. This is a really cute book, because it has reminded me of my youth when I would disobeys my mother and just do all of crazy stunts or pranks. But I would ended up getting punished for them. This is rather nolgastic because the author has wrote this book based on his own experiences. 

By: Roni Schotter & Illustrated by Cyd Moore

Title: Room for Rabbit

Genre: Fiction

Medium:  Watercolor

Summary: The book is about a girl who have her most treasured possession  her stuffed rabbit. In this story, a girl is a child of a divorced parents, and she was living with her mother for most of the time. But she went over to her father's place and she has discovered that the spaces where her father had set out for his daughter has been filled with father's new wife. She went around the house and increasingly became upset that there was no spots left for her and the rabbit to play together. Eventually she has complained to her father, but his father's new wife has decided to share the spots with her and allowed her to play with her things around the house.