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Bibliography   Bunting, E. (1994). Smoky Night. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN: 0152699546 Story Summary A boy and his mama are looking out into the street though their window. There is rioting going on outside their street. Mama explains why people riot. People are smashing everything in sight, looting from the shops, and stealing food from Mrs. Kim’s market. The boy and his mother do not buy from Mrs. Kim market because mama would rather buy from people her own kind. The boy’s cat and Mrs. Kim’s cat are always fighting. They go to sleep after the riots move. The boy is woken by his mama to a burning building and the smell of smoke He cannot find his cat Jasmine in the chaos. They are taken to a shelter together with Mrs. Kim who cannot find her cat as well. Later a fireman brings the two missing cats which he has rescued from the burning apartment. Everyone is surprised that the cats are n...

Bibliography Lionni, L.(1963).Swimmy. New York: Radom House. Book Summary Swimmy is a little black fish in a school of small red fish. Swimmy becomes the sole survivor of an attack from a huge tuna fish that swallows up all the little red brothers and sisters. Swimmy is left lonely and scared, all alone in the big ocean among huge creatures.As he swims around the ocean, he is awed by all the marvelous and beautiful creatures. He encounters a lobster “who walked about like a water-moving machine” and an eel “whose tale was almost too far away to see”. The wonders are endless. He soon stumbles upon a school of little red fish hiding behind a rock. The fish are scared to come out and play because of all the big creatures in the ocean. Soon swimmy entices them to come out of hiding. He teaches them how to swim in a pattern that makes them look like one humongous fish. Swimmy is the eye of this fish. The little red fish live happily ever afte...