"Just Plain Fancy"

My favorite year of elementary school by far was second grade. I had an amazing teacher named Mrs. Rose, and she instilled in me my dream to become a teacher and also my love for reading. She introduced a variety of different books, but one children’s author that always stuck with me was Patricia Polacco. I loved all of her books and had quite a collection of them. One of my favorites of hers was Just Plain Fancy. I think that book will always have a lot of meaning to me, because the setting is in an Amish city in Pennsylvania. During elementary school, my family and I lived in a small town in Pennsylvania right outside of Lancaster. When reading this book it brings back a lot of memories of when I was a child. This book, when I read this as a child, gave me an insight to a new type of culture that I knew nothing about. Even though on the map we were basically neighbors with these people, I knew very little about what they were all about besides the fact that they dressed funny to me and rode in horse and buggies.

** Outside Reading **

Picture Books:

Tickly Octopus by Ruth Galloway

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Curious George Goes to School by Margret Rey

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

Just Plain Fancy by Patricia Pollacco

Other Books:

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Particia MacLachlan

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

The Best School Year Ever by Barbra Robinson

The Mouse and the Motorcyle by Beverly Cleary

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery