Jo Jo Makoons: Snow Day

Another JOJO book!!! I am so happy I was able to review this book, thank you so much to Cynthia Leitich Smith for sending this to me! Ever since Apple, I fell in love with Dawn Quigley's writing, and then JoJo came into the world! This series never has a dull moment, especially because Jojo is so car......more

Jo Jo is learning about being healthy at school and helping her neighbors be healthy too. When a snow day comes, can they find healthy ways to spend their time as a community? I just realized that Jo Jo is the perfect example of an unreliable narrator for lower grades. And it helps to read these know......more

JoJo Makoons is part of the Ojibwe reservation, as is the author Dawn Quigley. In her first grade class, they are learning about being healthy and caring care of their Elders and neighbors. When all the kids in her class get a snow day, they meet up and create their own Olympic Games to be healthy.......more

This series is just delightful. Jo Jo has some Amelia Bedelia qualities, and some of the humor comes from her quirky interpretations of things that "everyone" knows. She's upbeat and cheerful, and every story comes rooted in the Ojibwe community. In this story, Jo Jo's class is talking about healthy......more

I like how positive JoJo is. In this story she wants to be healthy and tries to help her friends and family be healthy. I like that she is close to her grandma, Kokum. And she tries to help other old people too. We should take care of old people. JoJo keeps a healthy journal and the book sometimes t......more