Modern Fantasy by Holcomb, Elisa M

JESSICA AND HILLARY - LOU

2025-10-16 19:50:20 UTC

Lou by Breanna Carzoo. The category for this book is Toys and Objects Come to Life! Lou is about a fire hydrant who thinks his whole purpose in life is to be a toilet (for dogs). But as his life goes on he thinks there needs to be more in his life than just that. One day he is used for his real purpose and he becomes a superhero! Some motifs in the book are Special Characters/Not human and Anthropomorphism.

A Fairy Friend (Laurel and Cristella)

2025-10-16 19:52:39 UTC

This High Fantasy story follows a little girl who is trying to make fairy friends. She tries her best to make the fairies comfortable and happy, so they can come back and continue their friendship. The motifs include Special Characters that are not human, and magic.

Return by Aaron Becker (Tatiana and Celeste F.)

celestefuentes248 — 2025-10-16 19:53:39 UTC

Return by Aaron Becker is a high fantasy, magical powers and imaginary world picture book. The story follows a guy who finds a kite that leads to an imaginary world where he has to protect the magic from being taken away. The motifs were that there was magic, evil vs. good, a secondary world he went into, and the fantastical objects that looked like crayons.

First Snow- Briana & Alisha

2025-10-16 19:54:23 UTC

First Snow by Bomi Park can be categorized as Peculiar Characters and Situations. This book is about a small child who wakes up and sees snow. Curious about the snow, the child goes outside and begins creating a snowball, rolling across her town, through the woods. She passes through a dark cave and is taken to a world full of children building snowmen, who begin flying in the sky. One of the motifs seen is that the book is magic, as seen when the children and snowmen begin flying.

Beekle - Adilene & Sofia

aarriag6 — 2025-10-16 19:54:49 UTC

Modern Fantasy: Peculiar Characters & Situations

Motifs: Special characters/non human

Synopsis: After not being picked as an imaginary friend, Beekle did the unimaginable and traveled to the real world in search of a friend. Before he is about to give up his friend finds him.

The Wizard of Oz: Alexis and Olivia

2025-10-16 19:55:23 UTC

The Wizard of Oz: The official Picture Book by Janay Brown-Wood follows Dorothy Gale as she tries to find her way back home to Kansas after being transported to the Land of Oz by a terrible Tornado. Along the way, she makes friends with a scarecrow, a Tin Man, and A lion, who travel with her down the yellow brick road to get to the Emerald City. They hope to receive their heart's desires granted to them by the great and Powerful Wizard of Oz. This book has elements of modern fantasy by featuring Magic from Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West. It also has a secondary location, the books started in Kansas, and she traveled to the Land of Oz. Lastly, it features anthropomorphism by featuring a talking Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man.

Naomi & Kyleigh

2025-10-16 19:58:15 UTC

Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola was about a magic pot that could make food of its own. This book is a family book that deals with peculiar characters and situations. Strega Nona, who is a Grandma Which for the town has a magic pot that can make pasta on its own. She had to sing to it and blow three kisses to activate or deactivate the powers. She goes on a trip, and Big Anthony wants to prove to the town that the pot is magic. Long story short, the town ends up covered in pasta due to Big Anthony's curiosity, but Strega Nona saves the day. Big Anthony ends up cleaning all the pasta by himself.

A wave of stars by Litzy & Veronica

lantune2 — 2025-10-16 19:58:17 UTC

This book is about a seal and a turtle who hear a legend from an octopus where if they see a moon-bow, aka a moon and a rainbow, they will turn into humans. They go swimming at night, see one and turn into humans. They then try to figure out how to change back. The modern category is animal fantasy. The motifs used were magic and anthropomorphism. An example is the animals talking and turning from sea creatures to humans due to magic.

Saja and Layla: Music for Mister Moon by Philip C. Stead.

laylacalhoun23 — 2025-10-16 19:58:24 UTC

The category for this book is peculiar people/ situations because Hank is a little girl that is scared to play her cello in front of a crowd, but one night she scares an owl away as she is making a cup of tea in her imaginary house and finds the moon stuck in her chimney.

Some motifs in the book are:

anthropomorphism (talking moon and animals)

Second worlds (animals run the shops and she creates her own imaginary house)

Celeste, Karren, Miranda- How to Trick the Tooth Fairy by Erin Danielle Russell, Illustrated by Jennifer Hanson Roul.

2025-10-16 19:59:19 UTC

The modern fantasy category it belongs to is magical powers fantasy. "Prankster meets her match". The pranks in the story brought the idea of don't underestimate others. Along with the fairy being a magical character. Fantasy elements of magic through the tooth fairies' wond.

Bibiana and Maria- The Wompananny Witches Make One Mean Pizza by Jennie Palmer

2025-10-16 20:00:06 UTC

the modern fantasy category of this book would be a mix between Supernatural tales and Peculiar characters situations. This story is about two sister witches that love to bake but they don't like children and believe that children and witches go together like pizza and peanut butter. When a group of children come to their door, they get so upset that they have to bake their feeling away and end up creating a pizza monster. the Pizza Monster escapes their house and terrorizes the town. At the children eat the pizza and that's when the witches realize that children and witches go together like pizza and pepperoni. The motifs of this book would be the witches and the pizza monster.

The Nutcracker

2025-10-16 20:01:37 UTC

The Nutcracker falls into the category of Imaginary Worlds. The little girl is gifted a nutcracker at a party and then the evil mice come and try to overrule the nutcracker. The girl shrinks to the size of the mice and the nutcracker comes to life to save everyone. They go into a secondary world and all the animals praise the girl for saving the nutcracker. The animals play the orchestra and are anthropomorphic. The nutcracker is a fantastic object because it comes to life and goes back to being a doll. Then the nutcracker shows heroism by saving the people.