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18 reviews for:
The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story Of Balto (Step Into Reading: A Step 3 Book)
Donald Cook, Natalie Standiford
3.84 AVERAGE
18 reviews for:
The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story Of Balto (Step Into Reading: A Step 3 Book)
Donald Cook, Natalie Standiford
3.84 AVERAGE
An old friend; gave this to one of my cousin's kids for Christmas and had to reread it first. The ending always made me cry with happiness as a kid and in fact I DID tear up this time, too.
What a crime to go through all of this and not mention the Iditarod.
As a read-aloud, this book earned itself applause from both my grade 1/2 and 2/3 classes.
This was less the story of Balto, and more that of his owner and dog-team in their remarkable adventure trying to bring desperately needed medicine to Nome Alaska. A good, but slightly long choice for young students beginning to explore biography and non-fiction.
This was less the story of Balto, and more that of his owner and dog-team in their remarkable adventure trying to bring desperately needed medicine to Nome Alaska. A good, but slightly long choice for young students beginning to explore biography and non-fiction.
Read it to go along with Woodsong by Gary Paulson. We were reading it at a school I am working at. Someone asked if I had heard of the story of Balto. This was just a quick read so I could tell the story to the girls I am reading with. It was cute!
This is not fine literature, but I usually find these learn-to-read books dull and this one tells a compelling story of a dog in Alaska who helps rescue a town by delivering medicine during a blizzard. My dog-fearing 4-year-old enjoyed listening to it and the author does a good job of describing the dangers of diptheria (the book is set in 1925) without scaring the bejeebers out of kids. I wish more early readers were as interesting to adults.
An interesting peek into an early reader; I'm enthusiastic about picture books, but have no experience reading this category/demographic, even as a young reader IIRC. This is in every way the expected telling of Balto's story, which is to say: simplifying the relay down to the big finale is reductive and aggrandizing. But it's also super engaging, so I can see why it would make this early reader stand out from the crowd. The illustrations don't do much for me; they're remarkably light on atmosphere, which is a lost opportunity given the extremity of the setting. All in all, not for me & not meant for me, but I'm not mad to've read it and gained some understanding of this category of children's books.
Remember reading this years ago. It's a great introduction to the story of a very cool dog :)
literally read ts way too long ago for me to give an unbiased review but i would literally read ts book every day like it was so inspiring and for what