Old and New Storybooks

today’s children storybook summary is Stellaluna By Janell Cannon Stellaluna by Janell Cannon   Theme: This is a story about acceptance and kindness Plot: How a baby bat got separated from her mother, fell into a bird’s nest, and was raised among the chicks despite the significant differences between bats and birds. Storyline One night, Stellaluna and her mother went into the forest out looking for fruits for dinner. But bats like Stellaluna are not the only nocturnal creatures; from high on a treetop, an owl was spying on them.

today’s children storybook summary is The Tiger’s Egg By Nele Bronner Theme : Acceptance, kindness, love. Plot: A cranky zoo tiger is forced to take care of a chick hatched from an egg he’d found. Symbolism: The author uses the egg as a symbol for novelty, new beginnings, and new ideas that come to shake a dull and rigid world.

today’s children storybook summary is Chicken Little By Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley Storyline: We all know the story of Chicken Little…how a chick thought that it got hit by a piece of falling sky and, gathering a crowd of creature on its way, runs to tell the news to the king. The story is so popular (and funny) that many children’s book authors wrote and illustrated their own version of Chicken Little . So is the case with this book, which is Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley version of the narrative.