This is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Third graders enjoyed the read-aloud available on "Storyline Online". ( )

This fun picture book is told from the point of view of two different characters: a young girl and a woodland creature. Excellent book for teaching about different perspectives.

This book is super adorable. I definitely want to try it out at a storytime soon. A girl/beast comes across a creature/animal who is obviously in distress/just hanging out. She rescues/kidnaps him, keeps him in a nice little house/terrible prison, dresses him in adorable/ridiculous clothes, and exercises/tortures him. How will things end for this thoughtful girl/thoughtless beast and her happy new pet/desperate-to-be-free captive? READ IT TO FIND OUT! ( )

It is important for students to learn that everyone has a different opinion and a different side to a story and neither of them may be right or wrong. In the story we see two different point of views of the same story, from a girl that captured an animal and made it her pet and an animal that was captured and confined. In the end of the story both of the "terrible beasts" realize that they want to be in each other's lives and they learn that they are not so bad after all. ( )

I loved this book; it was so cute! the book was in two parts. I have never read a children's book with the book broken into sections based on the characters point of view. The book was about a little girl who was walking through the woods and finds a squirrel and takes him home and keeps him as a pet. The book explains her journey and then goes into part two of the book where the squirrels point of view came to play in the story. The squirrels part of the book was so funny. The squirrel couldn't understand why the girl was giving him baths and dressing him up, so he ran away back into the woods. Until he realizes the young girl is great, so he goes to her house and then they experience a squirrels life through the woods. It was a great book. I would say the message behind the book is to tell students that not everyone is the same, but that doesn't mean they are not great people. You don't know until you meet them. ( )

I am always interested in books that are written and illustrated by the same person. I really like reading those because you get to see the full vision of what the author wanted when they wrote the book instead of the illustrator. I usually don't like when the reader adds input while reading because I feel like their input can sway how you feel about the book and make you feel a way that the author didn't intend. I liked this readers input however and agreed with her. My favorite part about this book is that it has 2 parts; one for each character. Most book just say how the other character feels instead of letting the character themself talk. I think this book would be good just for a fun book to read but to also show students how you can mean one thing but it can be interpreted as another. ( )

A Tale of Two Beasts has a very simple storyline: A young girl captures an animal in the forest. But in this book, simple does not mean boring. The author plays with point of view and shows the reader how people see things differently. I think this book could be used to help children understand point of view and develop their own writing style. ( )

A girl was walking in the woods when she came across a little beast hanging from a tree. She took the little beast home, gave him a bath, gave him a little house made of cardboard, a sweater and hat, and tried to feed him nuts. The nex day she took him to school to show everyone her new friend, but she could tell something was wrong with him so she opened the window to let some air in, but he jumped out the window and ran back into the woods! She was going to chase after him, but then her mother called for dinner. Later that night, the beast came back and the girl wondered why he came back. The book then tells the beast's side of the story and why he left and why he came back.

This was a cute read. I really liked that it showed both sides of the story because there's always two sides to a story and I think this book shows young children the importance of that. ( )

I absolutely loved how this book was broken up into two parts; the part of the child and the part of 'the beast'. The way that this story broadens perspective by showing the reader a different perspective is the main reason I enjoyed it so much. We see the world from a human perspective, and to get to see the same exact scenario from an animals perspective was an eye-opening and important experience. While it did focus on perspectives of an animal in a animal-human interaction, that is not the only situation this lesson can be applied to. The lesson shows that there are two sides to every story, and that everyone views a situation differently. My favorite part was when the two characters saw the other perspective and both thought to themselves "maybe they aren't so strange after all". This is a great story to emphasize kindness, empathy, and understanding to young readers. ( )

From a little girl's point of view, she rescues a strange beast in the woods and carries him safely home, but the beast is not happy and escapes. Then, the beast tells his side of the story.

Love the illustrations. A great book for showing different points of view and different sides to a story. ( )

This book shares the experience of a girl finding an animal in the woods from two view points. In this book, the girl thinks that she is taking care of and saving the animal (or "beast") in the woods, when in reality, the animal just wants to go home. Both sides of the story are shown, and it comes to a point where both characters find acceptance of each other. ( )

The theme of the book was not to judge a book by it’s cover. I enjoyed this book. One part of the book I enjoyed was how the story was laid out into two sections, one for each characters point of view. This allowed the readers to understand each character more in depth. For example, in one part of the story, the girl bathes and dresses the animal. She sees herself as being a good owner, but the animal sees her as being strange and bizarre. Also, I enjoyed how in each section the pictures were almost the same but had slight variations. This also showed how each charter felt during the same time period.This allows the character’s personality to develop. Another feature that I enjoyed is in the beginning of the book, the author referenced Mark Twain. On the page, there is a sign that reads,” For David. There are two sides to every story, and then there is the truth”. This not only sets up the book, but allows the reader to understand that the sides are going to be different than one another. ( )

I really enjoyed reading this modern fantasy book. My favorite thing about this book was the writing and change in point of view. Since the reader experiences both sides of the story, we see how each character thinks. The author does a great job of changing the writing to fit each character. For example, when writing from the girl's POV, she is very sad when her squirrel (I think it's a squirrel) runs away, but from the squirrel's POV, he is really happy to have escaped. I also like the illustrations in this book and how they contribute to POV. For example, we think that the squirrel is happy playing dress up from the girl's POV, but from the Squirrel's POV we can see that he feels trapped inside the box. The big idea of this book is that there are two sides to every story. ( )

This is a great story for teaching empathy- the little girl and little creature each have a different perspective on their encounter. A story like this can be a great starting point for understanding how others are feeling and asking questions. It's also a really cute story about friendship. ( )

Somewhere between the two sides of every story lies the truth. ( )