b" book reviewsB KREVIEWSMarvelous Cornelius Written by Phil Bildner Illustrated by John ParraThis book is about Cornelius Washington, who was a sanitation worker in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005. Cornelius is very helpful to the community and says hello to all the people he sees there. Then Hurricane Katrina came and flooded New Orleans. Cornelius could not clean the mess himself, butI liked the book because people fromit could show them how to be brave people from New Orleans and manyall over the country helped to cleanduring a tough time like a hurricane, other United States cities came tothe mess from Hurricane Katrinasaid a student.help clean up. because they wanted to, not because they needed to, said Taryn.Most students in Philadelphia Hebrew Public Charter's Metulla classroomCornelius is helpful, creative, agile,We recommend this book for said they enjoyed the book. loud, positive, and marvelous. I thinkchildren to help with reading skills [this book was chosen] becauseor to learn about kindness. We also people are supposed to be helpfulrecommend the artwork in the book, to their communities, and Corneliusand think that people who lived I really liked how he was allwas helpful to his community, saidthrough Hurricane Katrina would cheerful, but became sad. Then heMaddie. enjoy the book as well. got back up and became happy again because people from other citiesI feel like this book would be good By Healthy Investigator staff came to help. It shows teamworkfor children and adults going through Philadelphia Hebrew Publicmakes the dream work, said Brooke. tough times or hurricanes because Charter SchoolA Kids Book About Public Healthof seat belts, clean water, and evenThe book was good because it taught Written by Becca Yanniello safe foods we buy at the store. Theseus new things that we learned about In this book, the author explains thatthings exist because of people whoour health, said Chase. It would be public health is a field of science thatwork in public health. They make rulesgood to add to a reading center in is all about protecting and promotingto help us stay safe and healthy.a hospital for kids as it would help health. That means preventing thingsIt was easy to understand becausesomeone learn more about how a that make us sick or unhealthy, likethe author didnt use big words, saidcommunity keeps people healthy and disease, pollution, and injury. It alsoNasir.safe, he continued. means protecting things we needUsually books like this have a lot ofWe recommend this book for all kids to stay healthy, like ensuring everywords and paragraphs, but this wasanywhere. community has access to doctors,short and I liked that it showed how By Chase Adams, Ace Powell, Nasir clean water, clean air, and safe placespublic health makes the community Saunders, and Joshua Nazulme to live, go to school, work and play.safer, said Ace. William Rowen Healthy RoarThe book tells readers the importance Page 16 illustration by Gianna Depa, 7th grade, 16B Y K I D S , F O R K I D S | S p r i n g 2 0 2 4 MaST Community Charter Healthy Panther Post"