Books for grades form 1st to 3rd graders.

Vizcarra, Natasha. The Black Kitten (1995)

The story is about a kitten looking for a home, but because it is black they think it is bad luck. The kitten named is lgnacia. She went to different houses but no one wanted the kitten. In a couple of houses she went to they were scared and would get the kitten out of there house. Then she went to a huge house. In this house the kitten found a person that just took her in and didn’t matter that the kitten was black. The little girl had to the kitten with full of love. This book would be for 1st to 3rd graders. I think that this story shows a hero to this kitten because the kitten was looking for a home just because it was different. The kitten saw the love from the girl and see her as a hero for taking it to her home.

Huseinovic. P. Andrea. The Blue Sky (2002)

This book is about a liitle girl that had lost her parents. She wanted to look for her mother. She didn’t want to do anything as other children did. She just wanted to look for her mom. She put her self in a tower. As she was up there she started to talk to the birds as they came up to her. Then she started to see things in the air that reminded her of her mother. Then came a bird with stars and she went up there, they say she went with her mother. These animals helped her. I believe this book could be for 3rd graders. This book believe to be a hero book because the animals kept reminding her about her mom. It is believe they had reunited together as one. They also just gave her to believe her mom was with her at all times.

Shah, Idries. The Clever Boy and Terrible Dangerous Animal (2008)

This story is about a little boy that is going to visit a village. As he was walking to the village he ran into some people that were really scared. He had asked why they were scared they just pointed and said that animal right there. The little boy had stared laughing because it was a big watermelon. So he had showed them it was not harmful and even taught them that you could eat and plant the seeds and have more watermelons. The village thought he was crazy for doing was he did, but was a hero for them. I believe that this story was a hero story because he help them to see it was not going to harm them, but believe that not all things are going to hurt you. He was being a hero to the people that were scared.

Preschool/kindergarten

Mataira,K., Kemp. T, Cry-baby moon (1992) Mallinson Rendel and Ahuru Enterprise.

This story is about the moon wanting to see itself from the sea. And would cry and cry and cry. As the moon cried the clouds, Thunder, and lighting were trying to give him advise so he could see himself in the sea, but they didn’t work. So came along the rainbow and ask him what was wrong because the moon was crying. Then the rainbow said to ask the sea to if the sea would calm down because the sea was rough. He asked the sea and the sea had clamed down. Now he could see his beautiful smile. This story shows that they were all hero’s because they were helping the moon to see himself. The only thing was the rainbow has help him to asked the sea to be clam, but the thunder, lighting and the cloud help because they made the sea to be clam.

Molina, R. Titoy’s magical chair, (2002) Adarna House Inc. Phillippines

This story is about a little boy that is good friends with a little boy named Titoy. He is disable and is in a magical chair. This chair takes them to different places. They use there imagination. The thing is they other children don’t play with him just because he is different. They don’t see the advancers they have with his wheelchair. They just think he is different. But this kid will not change the fact there friends. I think this is a great story not the fact he is being a hero himself but for Titoy. He had time to get to know him. He is a hero just the fact that Titoy has a friend because of him. I think it is great for children to read just to let them understand the fact that just because children can be different outside don’t mean that they are not like you from the inside.

Urangoo, J., Ugly Duckling (2007) Soyombo Printing Co. Ltd., Mongolia

This story is about a Duckling that everyone thought that he was an ugly duck. Is mom told him he should leave. Then once he would come up to another animal they would not want to do anything with him. The winter came and a man saw him and helped him because he was frozen in the water. Then when the duck would wake up the kids where making a mess. Told the mother it was the duck fault and throw out the duck. Then winter pass and he became a beautiful swan. This swan was a hero to itself because it never gave up on itself. Then once he grow the swan realized how beautiful he was.

Toddlers

Disney, Sleeping Beauty (2008) Reader’s digest Children’s Books.

This is a story about a girl named Aurora. Her parents gave her up and were giving to her godparents. Because of the witch that had put a spell on her when she was born. Aurora never knew she was a princess until her 16th birthday when she was going back with her parents. The witch had found her and make sure the spell was going to happen. Well it did but before when she was a baby one of the godparents had put a spell where she would sleep and have a kiss from her love. Instead of dying. Of course the love of her life was the prince and had to get though the witch and the dragon. When he got through them he went to the princess and woke her up with a kiss. This is a hero thing most kids are grow up with. I know it a story but I think that children make a different point a view that life is like this but really is not. It is a story about some guy will have you and live happily ever after.

Urangoo, J., Cat in boots (2007) Soyombo Printing Co., Ltd- Mongolia This story is about a little boy that had older brothers and a father. He helped the father with things around the farm. Then his father passes and the brother told him to leave. He took his cat with him. So the cat wanted to help the little boy. Do he went to the king with a rabbit and said that it came from his master. The king wanted to know the master. So he took the boy he fell in love with the princess. Then the cat started helping the boy get a castle and told the village to tell the king that it was his masters home. Now he had made the monster turn himself into a mouse and the cat ate him. Then the princess and the boy got married. I think that this cat was being helpful and being a hero to the boy. The boy had changed his life because the cat would do things for him. The boy was poor and because of the cat he became rich. It really changed his life in the fullest. So the cat is his hero.

Sooriyarachchi, Janaki., Finbo (2005) Tikiri Publishers - Sri Lanka

In this story it is about a blue whale named Finbo. The thing about the Finbo it was hard for him to play hide in seek. The only thing about it was that they would find him right away. When it came to his friends he could never find them when it was his turn. Then it came to were they were going out more in the sea, but when thst happened Finbo saved them from the shark. That was going to eat them. This was a hero to the smaller fish because if not they would have been eaten by the shark and now they apprentice him more.

Husenovic, P., Andrea, The three little Pigs (2008) Kasmir proment-Crotia

In this book there were three little pigs that were going to make there own homes. The first pig namd Florian was going to make his house made out of straw. The second pig named Sebastisan made his with stickes. Well the wolf had huff and puff the two houses down. Then the ran to there brothers house named Pablo his house was made out of brick. The wolf tried to blow the house down but could not. The wolf started to look around the house to get in. He tired to go through the chimney, but the pigs got a boil of water and the wolf burned his tail and never came back. The hero in this story was Pablo he help out his brothers from being eaten by the wolf. Which it worked because his house was made to be strong. Now the wolf would not bother them again. I think that children should see that it is good to see that helping people will be good and wonderful.