The Cook Prize

Dylan
I really like Your Place in the Universe because it shows you where you are in the whole world from an 8 year old boy to beyond the Milky Way. It keeps getting farther and farther and deeper into space.

Anna
I liked this book because it shows you how small you are compared to every thing in the universe and the pictures are so cool and I just love the book!

Jake
I chose Your Place in the Universe because it shows how small we actually are. You might think that you are so big, but then you look at this book and see that you are very tiny. You will also see how tall things are. You will see how far we can see with a telescope. I saw that when Mt. Everest came you could see how small the biggest man made building is.

3rd Grader
That blew my mind!

Maha
I chose that book because it started with a kid and ended at the Universe. This book gives you a lot of suspense of what is next. This book reminded me of a guessing game.

Eric
I chose the book Your Place in the Universe because of its education to me and the rest of 4th Grade of how small you are in this rapidly expanding ball of stars. It gives you a vast sense of how huge the universe really is.

Elena
This book was non-stop. When it said mountains I thought that was the end, but it kept on going and going, and it was really fun hearing it.

Charlotte
I think that Honeybee deserves the Cook Prize because it explained how hard bees work and age up. I loved the page where it said, “Fly.” It really opened up the world to bees. Now that I read this book I look at bees a different way. I really enjoyed this book.

Annie
I chose Honeybee because I never knew about the life cycle of a bee and had no idea they put so much work just for a tiny bit of honey. It really made me value the honey we use and make sure we don’t waste it.

Harper
I chose Honeybee because it is really touching to me because I did not know that honeybees make so little honey in their life. Before I heard the book I was really afraid of bees and now I’m a little less scared because I know honeybees are just trying to make honey.

Caroline
I voted for Honeybee because the story was so intriguing, I felt like I knew Apis. … At the end of the story, when Apis passed away, it showed everyone that “that’s life.”

Eva
I chose this book because it had a lot of facts, and I love the pictures! I also like how it has the gatefold, it was the only book that had it. This book also had a diagram of a bee, unlike the others.

Chloe
I loved Honeybee because it had very detailed pictures, and I loved how the book explained how honeybees work. It also pulled me to keep on reading so I could find out when the bee flies!

Avery
I picked If You Take Away the Otter because it really shows what one little thing does, how it can cause so much chaos. It shows people to be respectful to the environment, and why you should take care of it and not take away from it.

Addison
My favorite book was If You Take Away the Otter. I picked this book because it reminded me, if you take away an animal that doesn’t really seem that important, it affects the whole habitat that the animal is living in. It also reminded me that your actions can affect the whole world if you don’t think about them. Anyway, I think If You Take Away the Otter deserves The Cook Prize because of countless reasons, some of them being amazing and realistic illustrations, an outstanding message that changes people’s minds about hunting or killing animals, and words and adjectives that really describe what will happen if you take away an otter.

Mihir
I voted for If You Take Away the Otter because I think it did a good job at making you care about the issue and making you feel sad, but then giving you hope at the end. I also think that it is very age appropriate.

Zoe
I liked this book because it brings color to my heart and light into my body.

Olivia
I chose Perkin’s Perfect Purple because I really liked the book and it was a very detailed story. I learned that from failure comes greatness.

Neila
I picked Perkin’s Perfect Purple because I love learning about how things were developed or made. I also picked Perkin’s Perfect Purple because I love when someone is trying to make something but instead they make something else. I love science myself and trying to create something so that is why I picked Perkin’s Perfect Purple.

4th Graders
The end-papers are great.
I like that it’s real but is like a story.