Skip to main content

The Polar Express

The Polar Express

Author/Illustrator: Chris Van Allsburg
Audio book by: Liam Neeson
Time: 16 minutes and 36 seconds
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Book Award: The Caldecott Medal 
Grade:  Kindergarten and up


The audio starts with the introduction of the title and the authors name, Chris Van Allsburg. It starts off with a peaceful classic music. The story is about a boy getting on a train while he was looking out the window on Christmas Eve. The train is called the Polar Express, and it is heading to the North Pole. As soon as the Polar Express reached the North Pole, the kids got out and saw Santa himself. Santa picked the boy and asked him what he wants for Christmas. He wanted one of the silver bells from Santa’s sleigh. Santa gave him the silver bell and declared it the first gift of Christmas. Later on when they got back to the train, the boy got all sad because he lost the silver bell due to a hole on his pocket. He then got dropped off and the next day is Christmas. He opened his gift from Santa and he heard the Silver bell ring. His parents did not hear it ring and thought it was broken but it was only him and his sister who can hear it because they believe in Santa and the spirit of Christmas. At the end, as he grows up, he is the only one left who can hear the bell ring.

This is a nice audio book for students because it gives the Christmas vibes and helps the students with their imagination. It gives the imagination to the students of actually being in the Polar Express due to the music and the voice of the person telling the story. It gives a peaceful vibe and sparks enthusiasm for the holidays. This will be great to play during December before the winter break so that the students will be able to get ready for Christmas. This audio book is really nice and I will have it stopped or broken down few minutes throughout the week or have a day for it to play since it is only about 17 minutes.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Poems to Learn by Heart

Poems to Learn by Heart Author: Caroline Kennedy Illustrator: Jon J Muth Genre: Poetry Ages or Grade: mostly 4 th and 5 th grade This book consists of a lot of poems that are short and long poems. Few poems that I can read to the lower grade level would be My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson and Under the Bed by Penny Trzynka. These two poems are really simple to understand and it mainly expresses feelings and thinking of a child or reading a child’s perspective. I will definitely read these two poems to 2 nd and 3rd-grade students. Most of the poems are readable for the upper-grade level such as 4 th and 5 th graders but there are some that are really long and the vocabulary level is too high. I will not keep this in the reader’s shelf in the reading section but I will only bring it out and read it aloud to students. I feel like if the students read this book individually they are going to have a hard time for some of them consist of old English which is why i
1 comment
Read more

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Author/Illustrator: Janet Stevens Genre: Traditional Literature Grade: Kindergarten and up A family of three bears lives in the forest. In the house contains three things of each. Three beds, three bowl, three chairs, and many more. One day, the bear family decided to go for a walk while waiting for their porridge to cool down because it is too hot. A little girl named Goldilocks was roaming around and saw the 3 bowls of porridge inside the house. She went in and tasted each of the porridge and end up eating the small bowl of porridge because it was just the right temperature. She then explored the whole house and ended up sleeping in the little bears bed. The three bears finally went back home and saw their porridge was eaten, the little bears chair broken, and their bed messy. They then saw a girl sleeping and Goldilocks woke up and ran as fast as she can outside the bear’s house and decided that she will never wander alone in the forest
Post a Comment
Read more

Please Don’t Feed the Bears

Please Don’t Feed the Bears Author: Allan Fowler Genre: Non-Fiction Grade: 1 st grade and up The book talks about the different kinds of bears. How the black bears look like brown bears but they are not and they have different characteristics. They eat only vegetables and they like to roam around and dig around. Black bears are shy and they are curious and watchful. The Brown bears are the biggest of all bears. If you encounter a black bear, just keep walking and do not mind them, just keep a walking distance and do not bother them. They like to dig around especially in campsites or trash can bins. If you encounter a brown bear, stand still or play dead. The Polar bears live up north where the ice are. They like to hunt fish and other sea animals. They live in the Arctic, where it is really cold. In the end, do not feed the bears because they will ask for more. I really like this book because it is very informative about the different types and characteristics of be
Post a Comment
Read more