Reading Rainbow Books: Fireflies (Hardcover)

from Tcochr1

The central message of the story is to take care of living things. The boy did the right thing by letting the lightning bugs go. If he did not, the bugs would have died. I liked this story because of the author's language. The author uses adjectives to describe the details in the story. For examp...

from Taranto

This book I use with my Realistic Fiction Writing Unit. It does a beautiful job of "show don't tell" in creating characters. It is powerful and detailed in a simple way. It is even a good book for envisioning- read it once without showing the pictures, then read it another day and who them the pi...

from ecarlson2014

We begin the story with a boy who is eating his dinner and at the corner of his eye he sees a light. The light that he saw was a fire fly. When he sees that the fire flies are out for the day, he asks to be excused and rushes to get a jar. He grabs his jar and joins his friends and goes on to cat...

from stgayde

Julie Brinckloe's "Fireflies" takes the reader back to the summer days of their childhood. The book follows a young boy, extremely excited for a night of catching fireflies in a jar with his friends. The night shines with the flashing of hundreds of fireflies and soon his jar is full and it's tim...

from jrudnick

This was a great book for students such as 2/3rd grade. This is something students can understand and learn about nature and letting things go. This could be a beginner book for a student to pick up on their own without the teacher's help. It could be a read aloud but it is a little short and not...