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Title: Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg ISBN: 0-395-53308-2 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 October, 1990 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just A Dream
Comment: This book, teaches children a lesson on how to respect the environment. Its illustrations paint pictures in our minds and help us to realize the consequences of every action that we make. It also tells us that the future with all the high technology and stuff won't always make us happy. Even if we have all the things in the world we want we may still no be happy.
When Walter goes to sleep, he travels the future to see all the different things that may happen to him. During these dreams he sees different things that kind of make him aware that it is important to take care of the environment.
This book is a great way to teach children to take the time to appreciate all the beautiful things of nature and to recycle and take care of the earth. ~Kellie~
Rating: 5
Summary: Children's Environmental Literature Classic!
Comment: This is my FAVORITE children's environmental book. Chris Van Allsburg's illustrations are fabulous, as always, and greatly add to the drama of the story. I am an environmental educator and read this book to students (5th-6th grade) at the end of every week at outdoor school. This is a great book to read aloud, especially because of the way the illustrations are separate from the text. What I love about this book is that it is in the end very hopeful. Walter's first dreams of the future show a world of great environmental problems, based on his actions of not caring in the present; but when he changes his ways, the future changes also. I like to emphasize this when reading it to students: The future is not written yet, but we are creating it every day with the choices we make. This is definitely a children's environmental literature classic, along with Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" and Lynne Cherry's "The Great Kapok Tree," but is even better for older children.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just a Dream, Chris Van Allsburg
Comment: Have you ever wanted to see what the world is like in the future? Well some people might not be ready to see it. This story shows how the earth has to be protected by everyone.
Walter is a young boy that doesn't care much about the earth. One day he has a donut bag that he tosses on a fire hydrant. That night he is watching a TV show about a boy in the future. He sees that people will have little planes and robots.
So that night he has a dream, his bed takes him years into the future. He finds that the world will be totally different. Walter notices that trees need to be protected because they are being cut down for wrong purposes. Walter finds out about what pollution does to the world. And Walter witnesses advances in science. Walter's bed takes him back to the present. Walter decides that he wants to make the world a better place. And for his birthday he gets a small tree like his neighbor got for her birthday. Then that night his bed takes him away, to the future, again.
I thought the book was interesting because a boy who doesn't think much about the world sees what the world will be like if it is not protected. It was cool that he was moved by what he had seen. And I think I would have tried to clean up too.
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Title: The Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg ISBN: 0395423317 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 28 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg ISBN: 0395486688 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg ISBN: 039527804X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg ISBN: 0395353939 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 September, 1984 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg ISBN: 0395330750 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 23 March, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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