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Boris #2: Boris Gets A Lizard (2013)

by Andrew Joyner(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Scholastic Inc.

series

Boris

review 1: Boris Gets a Lizard Andrew JoynerGraphic NovelText to Text: A good text to text would be other books of the “Branches” Series on which all talk about Boris. This would be good to get kids interested because these are funny, face paced books that would get a child interested quickly and the fact there is more then one book could pull students in because who doesn’t like a good book that has multiple in the series, more for you to read! Text to Self: This would be a good text to self because you could ask the children what animals they have or if they have ever been to the zoo to see their favorite animal. You can ask how the experience was for them and if they learned anything about their favorite animals while either being at the zoo or learning about them. Text to W... moreorld: I think this would be a great book for making connections on text to world with students. In this book Boris makes up a lie saying that he is going to get a Komodo dragon as a pet but when the whole school shows up in his front lawn he doesn’t have one but he does have a tiny Skink, a very small lizard. This would be good to show kids that not every animal can be a pet but some must remain in the wild or at a zoo and even if they are at the zoo you can still have a great time and go and see them. Boris learned that you can’t have every pet but you can still have fun! This would relate to a lot of kids in the world because lots of kids think they could have every pet and a lot of kids’ favorite animals are exotic animals.
review 2: Boris wants a lizard…but not just any lizard, he wants to get a Komodo dragon. Even though it is a bit deadly, he thinks it will be the perfect pet. So in a series of chapters we learn more about Boris, about the Komodo dragon he wants, and how he tells his school class that they can come and visit his new pet (before he even gets the pet of course). And then we learn what he does about it when he doesn’t in fact get the dangerous pet to show off.I like Boris. A lot. I haven’t read all of his adventures (from the book jacket I can see that there are at least three other Boris books just waiting for me to read them). But I know that he is great. In fact, I like him just as much as Henry and Mudge or Poppleton or some of those other great early reader chapter books. I think that I need to get loads more Boris books for my library, just so I can recommend him to everyone I talk to who wants a good easy reader book. I like the fact that Boris thinks the way he does (I totally laughed out loud when I saw how he “convinced” everyone he had a Komodo dragon even though he didn’t). He just seems like the type of kid (or a pig-like animal) that kids everywhere should be reading about. At least, all the kids that I recommend early readers to at my library will start to hear about him from here on out. :) less

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