Thursday, January 7, 2010

Sleepy Bear's Book Club - THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT

Hi Book Buddies,

I hope you are enjoying THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT. I have read the first three chapters and I really like the story. I feel sorry for Peter. He is all alone in the world even though he lives with Vilna Lutz. I'm not sure why he is living with Vilna Lutz. I know Peter doesn't have a mom or dad and he doesn't know where his sister is but why Vilna Lutz? I wonder who he is.

Did you notice how the story has a beginning like JACK AND THE BEANSTALK? Remember how Jack was sent by his mom to buy food but he traded the cow for magic beans instead? Hey, both stories have magic in them, too!

I want to know what happened to Peter's family. Why did they die?

I wonder if Baltese is a real place. I'm going to try to find it on a map.

There are a lot of tricky words in the story. I'm writing them down on sticky-notes and putting them on the refrigerator so I can study them and use them to learn them. One tricky word is audacity 0n page 2. I'm going to go look it up in my dictionary.

Well, I hope you write back to share your thinking and your questions with me about THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT.

Your Book Buddy,

Sleepy Bear

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi sleepy bear how are you today?I'm a student from Mrs.Hunter she has that book in her class room I read the book like only five pages in the book I liked the book the magicans elephent even though I did not get too read all of the pages I think it is a really good book to read whell eny way if you see moosey moose tell him I said hi how are you did you read the new book sleepy bear is reading for his book club buddys its really good and a cool book well eny way if you did not read it yet you shode it is really cool well bye for now sleepy bear and moosey moose.

Anonymous said...

Hi Moosey Moose how are you today?
I'm a student from Mrs.Hunters class we started to read that book that you are reading for your book club that is called The Magician's
Elephant it is really good so far
I like it a lot it is a really good
well see you later sleepy bear tell moosey moose I said hi if you see him you dont have to if you don't want to well bye for now
sinserly,
crystal:D

Anonymous said...

Hi sleepy bear how are you today?I'm a student from Mrs.Hunter's class we started to read that book it is really good so far and i really like it and i hope you like it to and i hope you have a good time reading it well bye for now
sincerely,
crystal from Mrs.Hunters class