Everyone+Brings+Noodles

Title: Everybody Brings Noodles Author: Norah Dooley Illustrations: Peter J. Thorton Interest Reading Level: K-2 Hard Cover: $15.99 Pages: 40 pages Publisher: Carolrhoda Books, Inc. 2002 Language: English ISBN-13: 9780876144558 ISBN 10: 0876144555
 * EVERYONE BRINGS NOODLES**
 * A book review by: Kara Brighindi**
 * Bibliographical Information:**

Norah Dooley is a storyteller, activist, an acclaimed children’s author and educator. She grew up in NYC on Staten Island. She is the co-founder of massmouth.com, and she started a story slam series in Greater Boston. She has published six storytelling CDs. Norah has also a MEd in Creative Arts in Learning, Middle School. She teaches storytelling, performance skills, directs theater. She performs in schools, libraries and teacher’s conferences. Over the course of her career, she has won many awards and has received much recognition for her books. She has worked many jobs over the course of her lifetime but her job as a substitute teacher was the reason for her interest in storytelling.
 * Author Biography:**

This story is about a young girl named Carrie. Carrie has been working very hard to organize her neighborhoods Fourth of July party. As Carrie organizes a Fourth of July block party in her neighborhood she goes from house to house making the final arrangements, she is delighted to learn that everyone is preparing some kind of pasta, her favorite food.All of her neighbors bring a different dish of noodles that resembles their culture. Carrie realizes just how different all her neighbors are in the community and how there are many different cultures in this world. This book celebrates the different cultures in this country and allows for children to accept and celebrate it too.
 * Summary:**

I really liked this book because I loved how it celebrated the different cultures in the world. I think that it is really important for students to understand and accept different cultures at a young age. I think that this book does a great job at showing acceptance and the benefits of accepting one another. The main character is very appealing to younger children because of her energy and friendliness. The illustrations in the book are very good too because they are realistic, full-color illustrations that show the happiness of the characters in the story. The illustrations show the characters conversing and sharing cultures with one another. It also displays to readers the happiness that comes with accepting one another. I also like how the book comes with the __#|recipes__ included because it allows for readers to make these multi-cultural dishes after reading. Readers can get their own chance to experience the food that the main character is eating.
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Bringing this book into my future class will benefit the __#|students__ in many different ways. It is an interesting but easy book to read so it can easily be understood by student’s at all different levels. Also, the theme of this story is cultural differences. It is extremely beneficial when teaching about culture. I think it is so important to teach students about acceptance and other cultures in the world because it is inevitable that children will make friends or come across other children of different cultures. Therefore, it is great to teach students about accepting those differences. This book does that in an exciting and interesting way.
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