My Favorite Children's Book

     When I was a little girl my favorite children's book that my mother would always bring home from the library for me was The Puddle Pail by Elisa Kleven. It was a cute little book which depicted two dragon like creatures who had various collections. The elder collected many average things and individual would collect, such as things you would find on a beach or bottle caps, but the younger collected puddles. 

     By the simple act of scooping up water into a pail, somehow this was preserving the reflection of each puddle, and I always thought this to be the most artistic thing in the world to me. The fact that just by collecting a trace of liquid you are preserving a piece of something that means more just seems too remarkable for a children's story.

So what is your favorite children's book that you read as a child?
And what about it stood out to you?

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Review

     Go Ask Alice is an intriguingly provoking read that claims to use the real diary entries of a troubled teenager girl who is exposed to the life of drugs when she attends a party one summer. The book itself is in the form of a diary, and so each entry follows the life of this girl (who is never named) as she falls down the rabbit hole. 

     It is clear in her writing that the drugs change her, as her first entries tended to be more sweet, innocent, and child like. As time progresses you can tell just how much this girl is growing up because of these bad choices, and even when she gets better there is something or someone which pushes her back into that down spiraling life of drugs.

     The ending is what stuck with me the most, and it has left me in a state of awe. The first hand accounts presented in this book are what make it so fascinating in a disturbing way. Overall the story captured me and I just wanted to read more and more until there were no pages left. 

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars.

The Fault In Our Stars Movie Review

   This past weekend John Green's The Fault In Our Stars came out in theaters and it delivered! As many of you know The Fault In Our Stars has been on the NY Times Best Seller List basically since the day it came out, and with John Green's popular nerdfighter fanbase this was to be expected. 

     The story is narrated by a teenage girl named Hazel Lancaster who suffers from cancer, who meets her star-crossed lover Augustus Waters in the "actual-heart-of-Jesus-Christ" better known as the basement of a church during a support group meeting. Now, I won't go into the full synopsis of the book I will now critique the movie and share my opinion.

   The cast is beautiful and perfect. To quote John Green's writing "my thoughts are like stars I can't fathom into constellations" when I think about how perfect the casting for this movie truly is. Every single character is depicted in the exact way I pictured them while reading The Fault In Our Stars for the first time, and it's just perfect!

     The plot of the movie does leave some minor points of the book out, including some quotes which I wish had been included, but for a movie that is already 2 hours and 6 minutes long I think it couldn't have captured the story better with the time given. 

     Finally, I always advise people to read a book before they see a movie, but if reading really isn't your cup of tea (I'm not really sure how you stumbled across my blog, but thanks for sticking around to read this I guess) please go see the movie anyway. The book is of course better than the movie in my opinion, but the movie is a masterpiece which I think everyone needs to witness if they haven't already.

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars.
P.S. When you go to see the movie don't forget tissues! You will need them.