Book Description for The Three Little Horses and the Big Bully Donkey (Book 1):
A tale (based on the “Three Little Pigs”) about three little horse brothers who suddenly lose their house that is destroyed by a fire. The young horses are totally alone and thrust into the reality of having to depend on themselves and each other against a bully donkey, who wanders the forest wrecking homes and bullying the other animals. This warm-hearted tale promotes strong values and has a fun premise. Written and humorously illustrated in vivid color throughout by Liana-Melissa Allen, the story is a proven winner for reading aloud to children.
Book Description for Donkey's Kite (Book 2):
In Horse Valley, it's a perfect day to go kite flying. Jack, Max, Lax, and Donkey decide to get creative by putting together their own homemade kites. However, Donkey's kite doesn't work. No matter how hard he tries to get it to fly, it just keeps tumbling to the ground. How will poor Donkey get his kite to fly? A friendly goose named Gusty is delighted to help him out.
In this Horse Valley Adventure, Donkey learns not to give up when all seems hopeless. The friends all learn a lesson about helping others and true friendship.
Author's Bio:
Liana-Melissa
Allen is a young author and illustrator of children's books and books
for youth. She has written, illustrated and published six books. Her
most recent one is the colorfully illustrated children's book "Donkey's
Kite", the second book of "A Horse Valley Adventure" series. The first
was "The Three Little Horses and the Big Bully Donkey". The lovable
cartoon characters, Max, Lax, Jack and Donkey makes them a favorite of
first and second grade students. She is now working on her third book of
"A Horse Valley Adventure". The magical world of fantasy has inspired Liana's imagination since as long as she can remember. Part of this was fueled by her dad reading aloud to her every day when she was younger. As a result, reading is her primary passion along with music. These two passions feed her imagination into stories and drawings, which she joyously sketches out into storyboards for a potential book.
Liana-Melissa is also a dedicated classical/jazz pianist, and mostly enjoys older music, especially from the big band era and the 1940's, 50's and 60's. While playing the piano, her imagination often leads to a great amount of improvising. Frequently, Liana will improvise a theme for one of the stories she is writing. Capturing this improvised music became a priority, which ultimately resulted in theme music for "A Horse Valley Adventure". The "Horse Valley" theme will be used for a short animated video featuring her Horse Valley characters.
Liana-Melissa loves to hear from her young readers. Please visit her website at www.lmabooks.com for more information, and to contact her by email. Visit her on Facebook too.
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My review;
Book 1 introduces us to the three horse brothers and the mean donkey. It reminded me of the Big Bad Wolf. However I liked that this version had more animals and I enjoyed the added bees. The end of the book was also nice and I liked how the story had a good message. I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.
Book 2 was fun because the friends made kites and were ready to have a fun day. However Donkey soon learns what it means to be bullied. I am glad that the author reminded us to be bullies. I really like that this book promoted team work and getting along, I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own.
I have 3 small nephews that I would love to give this book to.
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