This Old House is a sweet tale filled with the idea of turning a house into a home. This story has an old abandoned home that needs repairs. It has been neglected and feels sad. People look at it and see all of it’s faults but they don’t see the potential in the house.
The home has given up it’s sense of hope. It still serves a purpose by providing shelter to the birds, a backdrop to the tree in the yard, and a place to showcase the flowers that grow alongside of it. Still, it has no family to call it’s own.
People began to talk about tearing the house down. The house looses all of it’s pride and is sagging under the criticism. Just like people do when others put them down…it lowers their self confidence.
Then one day, a family comes along in need of a home. They look at the house and examine it’s structural stability. They talk about how much work it would be to turn the house into a home. They wonder if the house is sturdy enough to house their family and be a place to call home. The house finds a shred of confidence and stands up tall and it’s stability is noted by the father. The family leaves and the home assumes all hope is lost. That negativity spreads to the trees, the birds and the flowers…all think that they have lost an opportunity to flourish and thrive.
When the family comes back; they invest their time, their energy and alot of work. The house has someone to love it, and someone to nurture it and together…the family, the home, the birds, the tree and the flowers form a place of love, safety, and security. A place to call home!
If a person were to apply this story to the relationships in their lives, you would see much more happiness and strength in the world. It shows the power of positive thinking, praise, and hard work; and you see the results from focussing on the good in life as opposed to the negatives!
This book was written by Pamela Duncan Edwards and illustrated by Henry Cole. It was published by Dutton Children’s Books in 2007. This book is a treasure and should be shared with those you care about…and those that you know who could use some hope in life!
This is a great book; i think it would even get many young boys who don’t normally wish to read to pick up the book and even finish reading it.
Many a young child expresses and interest in becoming a police officer. Lots of television shows, focus on police dogs in their dramas. There has always been alot of interest in how police dogs know what to do. This book explains the kind of work that they do, how they are trained, who they stay with and how they act when they are not doing a job for the police. Police dogs are also called K-9 units; they live and work with their handlers. There are certain kinds of dogs that are better at police work than other dogs. See how the dogs are taught to chase criminals, work at airports to find drugs, help protect their human police partners.
This is a book that answers questions that kids ask, that many parents and teacher don’t have the answers to. This book was written by Judith Janda Presnall. It was copyrighted 2002 by KidHaven Press, an imprint of Gale Group, Inc. It is written as juvenile literature.
There are many pictures in the book and even a glossary of terms in the back for a child to understand the terminology better.
Rainy’s Recommendations
