"Children’s Book Reviews" Archive

This book is the second in the series, and is about Ralph, a mouse that lives under the couch with his precious motorcycle and his crash helmet and loves speed, action, and of course motorcycles. This time, his family enrages hi enough to cause him to run away to a camp, where he’s caught by a child named Brad, and soon returns to the Mountain view Inn.

I’d say the genre is adventure and action, since the book has many scenes where there is a lot of action, like when Ralph breaks out of his cage. Although many people can enjoy this book, I’d recommend this book to people who love mice, motorcycles and adventure will like this book. People around ages 5 to 12 should read this book.

My favorite part of the book is when Ralph makes the deal with Brad but finds it difficult to keep his part, since he needs to return a watch without making it seem like Brad had returned it. I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars, since in the book, Ralph realizes how much he misses his family and goes back and even gives his cousins rides. You learn that friendship and family is important to life.

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This book is about Humphrey, class pet of room 26. The class is on an Egyptian unit and is facing a problem on secrets clubs and gestures! Joey doesn’t want to read other books other than Robot the Rabbit, people are keeping Humphrey and Og, the class frog in the dark, and someone is leaving, but for some reason, Mrs. Brisbane is happy for them. Humphrey must visit the library, searching for answers and solutions, like the answer to “What animal walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the day, and 3 in the night?” To make matters worse, when Humphrey drops his notebook and Aldo throws it into the trash, he must go get it! Unfortunately, that leads to the garbage bag spilling and Aldo putting traps about! Finally, the secrets come to an end and Humphrey understands everything that the adults and children talked about.

The genre is comedy and fiction, since Humphrey and many of the characters do goofy things that are sure to make you laugh, and fiction is pretty self-explanatory. People around 4 to 10 years old would enjoy this book. People who would be the most interested would be people who have already read the Humphrey books, or people who like hamsters/ needs to learn how to deal with secrets.

I would give this book a 5 out of 5 stars since not many books make the lesson on secrets interesting, and if you didn’t understand the lessons, it is written much more clearly at the end.

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