Sisters
Author: David McPhail
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
Copyright: 2003
Pages: 27
Reading Level: 1
Genre: Picture Book
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Summary:
This book is very simple. It is about two sisters. The book begins by telling how they are different. One is big, and one is small. One likes to get up early, one likes to sleep all day. One like’s baseball, and one finds it boring as so forth. It then goes in to how they were different, but also alike in many ways. They both liked horses, playing in puddles, jumping in the leaves, dance, piano, making cookies, drawing and more. But they were most alike in one thing, and that thing was the most special of all, they loved each other.

Who would benefit from reading this?
This is a great book for sisters of course. It would be good for siblings to read together because at times older siblings can get annoyed with the younger one and vice versa. This book though teaches them how they are different, and the same, but also what is most special about being a sister.

Potential problems/conflicts:
A problem this book has is that you have to have a sister to feel a part of it. So for kids that don’t have sisters or those that are boys, it could be not as well received.

My reaction:
I thought this book was cute. It brought me back to being a little sister and always looking up to my older sisters. I was the one that found baseball boring. They were the ones that wanted to sleep in and so on. But now, we are all grow up and our similarities and differences don’t matter as much, what matters most is that we love each other. Sisters/siblings rock, and this book was a great reminder in a simple way.