Books

Guardian Angel Publishing 2009

A troupe of hamsters celebrate a year of hare-brained holidays in their unique hamster style. The book highlights nouns and adjectives on each page, as well as exploring opposites. Activity pages include scrambled words, match-up and crossword puzzles—plus much more. Grammar becomes fun and games with hamster helpers.

Reviews

Through the use of hamster antics, Cynthia Reeg, in her whimsical style, writes about nouns and adjectives in a way that will capture the interest of any student. The illustrations by Kit Grady help portray the fun. Hamster Holidays: Noun and Adjective Adventures is a "must have" for any teacher who is introducing or reinforcing nouns and adjectives in her classroom!

Cathy Eshleman, Special Education Teacher
Sunrise Middle School, Kearney, Nebraska

Rating : Five Stars *****

Has your child been struggling with learning about nouns and adjectives and what their jobs are in a sentence? Then this cute little book about hamsters and holidays will be just the right thing to help your child identify these important parts of a sentence.
With fun and wacky holidays that may or may not be real (I didn’t take the time to look them up), hamsters gear up to celebrate days such as: Book Pal Day, Puddle Jumping Day, Monster Madness Day, Toy Parade Day, and others, the author will teach children the definition of nouns and adjectives.
Using sentences like “Sleepy Babe rides the rocking horse float,” the author highlights the adjectives in red, and the nouns in blue, making them easily visible to children. Colorful pictures further illustrate the sentences and help draw the children’s attention.
The back of the book includes a study guide, a short story for the child to read and identify the nouns and adjectives, a place where the child can identify nouns as person/place/or thing by putting them in the correct column, and other fun activities.
This book would be ideal for any child struggling with the basic parts of sentences, whether public, private, or home schooled. Suggested ages: 5 to 12.
Armchair Interviews says: This book will help grammar become fun.

Laura V. Hilton
http://reviews.armchairinterviews.com

Rating: Five Stars*****

This adorable book is part of the Pet Grammar Parade Series and Academic Wings books published by Guardian Angel Publishing.

Author Cynthia Reeg has put together a great story about child-friendly hamsters celebrating their own special holidays throughout the year. This book is actually printed in several colors of ink to teach your child nouns (blue ink) and adjectives (red ink). The regular text appears in black. The funny hamsters, aptly illustrated by Kit Grady, lead your child from one exciting holiday to the next – New Hat Day on January 1, Stick Horse Day on February 15th, and Kite Dance Day on March 10th. Can you guess the names of the other nine holidays that hamsters celebrate? You will just have to read this wonderful book to find out what they are!

The hamsters cavort across the pages to lead your child through twelve whacky hamster holidays while teaching nouns and adjectives along the way. Ms. Reeg did an excellent job with her precise text and layout of each holiday. Your child will also find a calendar at the bottom of each page, highlighting the holiday date, as an additional learning tool. Parents and teachers will love this book for all the word activities, study guide, word match-ups, word scrambles, puzzles, etc. located at the back of the book after the final holiday of the hamster year – Toy Parade Day, December 6th.

I give this book a high five for the excellent learning tools Author Cynthia Reeg has included to make learning so much fun, and for the colorful, kid-friendly illustrations by Kit Grady. This book is definitely a keeper!

Stories for Children Magazine
Book Review – August 09
BY: Gayle Jacobson-Huset – Fiction/Poetry Editor
http://storiesforchildrenmagazine.org

Rating: Five Stars *****

Hamster Holidays: Verb and Adjective Adventures is very creative and cute and has a lot of great suggestions in the back for learning nouns and adjectives. I really liked the activities provided. This is something that a lot of homeschool moms might be interested in. Most of us have grammar curriculums, however, I see it as an added fun book and activities to use.

Nikki Schaeffer, Author/Artist & Homeschool Mom
Omaha, NB

Hamster Holidays Noun and Adjective Adventures by Cynthia Reeg is a delightful way to learn about nouns and adjectives. With adorable illustrations by Kit Grady, this book is kid friendly! The book opens with this poem, Nouns names people, places, and things, proper or common they may be, Adjectives stay close to nouns and describe them to a T, In this book of hamster days, You'll find both these parts of speech, Adjectives in red, Nouns in blue, How many can you find of each? After a brief explanation of nouns and adjectives, what follows is a fun-filled tale of the hamsters' holidays and how they celebrate them. Of course, every noun is blue and every adjective is red. After the enchanting story is finished, there are 8 pages of noun and adjective activities and teaching helps! What a fun way to teach or reinforce grammar!

Meredith Curtis
Take Root and Write
http://www.takerootandwrite.com/2009/09/guardian-angel-books-review.html

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