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UP IS AN AMAZING BOOK! I LOVE IT! THE PICTURES ARE AMAZING! THEY ARE MAGICAL AND SO REALISTIC! IF THE CHARACTER IS UPSET THE COLORS GET DARKER! IF THE CHARACTER GETS HAPPY THE COLORS GET BRIGHTER! THIS BOOK IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!

This book is great and it really expresses how the character feels! It really makes you want to know what is going to happen! I would recomend reading this book!!!!!

This book is about a boy who, according to his Dad and brother, is to small to do anything, to help out on the boat, which is what he longs to do. Then he figures out he has a power, a power to lift this. Just up not sideways, backwards or forwards. Then a whale washes up on shore. The boy has to lift it up as all the men push. The whale gets free. This book is WAY better than it sounds. THE PICTURES ARE AMAZING!!! Read it!

This book should have won the 2007 caldecott medal! Our 5th grade participates in a mock caldecott program and up won! Too bad it wasn't the real caldecott. Jim LaMarche makes the story even more magical then it is without the illistrations. Up is about a young boy, nicknamed mouse, who is told he can't help his father and his older brother on a boat. One day at breakfast he discovers an amazing power. Buy the book to find out what the power is.

I personally think that Up is a very good book. What I like about this book is that it has very nice and peacful illustrations that look very realistic. This book is interesting, it is about a boy who's older brother doesn't think he's strong enough to help him and his dad. The boy wants to prove that he can help, soon he discovers that he can lift things with his eyes, but not sideways, only up and down. Later he finds that there is a whale on the beach and he helps pick it up into the beach. Don't you think that's a good book? Well, I do, and the illustrations make it an even more fantastic book!

On the one hand, what we have is an uplifting story about a boy who is told he's "too little" to be any use when his dad and brother go fishing, even though the other boys his age already get to help out. And it's also a story of a boy practicing and practicing a skill, being dedicated to it until it can be useful. (That the skill - lifting objects in the air - is fantastical is beside the point.) And of course it's a story of saving a whale's life - great.

But the end of the story hinges upon Mouse's father knowing he's mature and strong enough to help on the boat... which he knows because... he asks to help save the whale, like everybody else is doing and like he always asks to join in things that his older brother does? Or maybe he only gets to go on the boat because he saved the whale... even though nobody knows his secret and they all think it was just their own hard work and pushign that unbeached it...?

The ending just doesn't hold up well with the rest of the book.

We love the story and illustrations in this book. My 5 year old really connected with this book. I could see him imagining that he coulld levitate things too!