The book I chose in class was The Rainbow Fish. I think it was a "good" book because it helps kids learn how to be individuals and not follow the crowd. It also teaches them to share. It gives them a great story line of how he is the most beautiful fish in the sea and how everyone wants just one of his scales. He doesn't want to share his scales so everyone stops talking to him and leaves him to play by himself. The same as any kid would do if someone wasn't sharing with them. It teaches kids that sharing is one of the greatest things you can do with your friends.
In the end he gave all his scales away so that he would have friends and no one would think he was being selfish, which in turn made him happy again.
I think a "good" book should be able to teach kids life lessons without just going straight to the point. Good books should lean them in the right direction and get their thought processes going to try and figure out what they would do in a situation like that.
I remember the books I read as a child. I loved for them to be about real things that taught me something useful but didn't make it a boring read.
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