Sam and the Firefly (Beginner Books)

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Summary: This story sounds like Pinocchio
Review: I read this book in first grade and noticed that the details of the story are very similar to the cartoon movie, "Pinocchio" for example, Sam the owl tries to teach Gus the firefly right from wrong(like Jiminy Cricket)and Gus doesn't listen, and just like when Stromboli locks Pinocchio in a cage, the Hot Dog Man cages Sam in a glass jar and drives him off, only it's in a pickup truck rather than a horse-drawn trailer. The only differences are that there were no characters taking the place of Foulfellow or Gideon, and that in Pinocchio, the Blue Fairy saved him, not his conscience.

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Summary: cool dude
Review: This was a very, very cute book.

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Summary: Read it over and over and over and...
Review: This was my favorite book growing up. I owned a copy and I still checked it out of the library so I could read it at school. At age 4, the story was engaging and the moral easy to understand. At 5-6, the story was still great, but the challenge of reading words with such a wide range of difficulty kept me interested for years.