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Three Brave Women

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I am a first grade teacher and use this book for many teaching points. The main idea or theme is the importance of "facing your fears." I also use it as an example for Writing Workshop. The author starts the story..."OOOO, I hate that Billy Huxley!" The writer captures your interest right away to keep you reading. Everybody has fears and this book begins by showing how embarrassing our fears can be. I do not read this book in one sitting because we stop to "turn and talk" for 1 minute on every page. Make predictions, connections and several vocabulary words. It takes me 3 days - 1/2 the first day, 1/2 the 2nd day and the 3rd day we create the chart. I use a graphic organizer and pair this book with "Thundercake" by Patricia Polacco, another great book about facing your fears. This book deserves the full 5 stars!

Three Brave Women is a real powerful and exciting book to read. This book was about maybe your fear of something like snakes could mean that your mom and grandma could have that same fear. It also talks about how to some people have a fear of something like snakes or spiders is scary but to other people that is just wierd how they could be scary. It talks about when you face your fear then you should show it off. when you have a litlle fear of snakes or spiders then someone who makes fun of you could actually have a fear of something big like cats.

This is a story of a grandmother, mother and daughter who conquer their fears of spiders and crawl under their house to catch one in a jar. The goal is to take the spider to Billy, a little boy who laughed at Caitlin's fears. The text is a little long for the simple plot, which I and my little niece both thought a bit silly. The line drawings are not that interesting. There are a lot of much better books out there for the 5-8 crowd