Thank you to everyone who took a guess at what animal will be featured on the cover of Water Can Be… when it publishes next year. There were so many good guesses–I especially love the idea of an elephant shower–is it too late for me to put that in the book? But the correct answer is frog, and Janet F. was the first person to guess that. Janet, if you’ll visit my Half.com shop and pick out a nonfiction book you’d like, then email me that title and your mailing address, I’ll get it right out to you!
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Wild About You! by Judy Sierra
illustrated by Marc Brown
Alfred A. Knopf, 2012
Fabulous rhyming picture book by Judy Sierra! Take a bunch of adorable zoo babies, two animals who feel left out (panda and tree kangaroo) because THEY don’t have any cute babies, an unidentified egg, and a stray kitten, and mix them together for a zoo adventure. This is charming and lovely–and funny. For instance:
“Blech! Babies are awful,”
the crocodiles told them.
“They bite and they scratch,
and they howl when you hold them.
They won’t do a thing that you want them to do.
And on top of all that, they make mountains of poo.”“May we have your babies?”
the pandas asked sweetly.
“No! No!” cried their parents.
“WE LOVE THEM COMPLETELY!”
This is just a flat-out entertaining picture book, but it is also a great discussion starter about family, diversity, adoption, etc.
This is my favorite Sierra book, I think.
Congratulations to Janet F. for jumping to the right conclusion with your frog! Thanks for the fun, Laura!
Wild About You sounds delightful!
Thanks for playing, Penny! Wild About You is just a treat:>)
Congratulations to Janet F. for jumping to the right conclusion with your frog! Thanks for the fun, Laura!
Wild About You sounds delightful!
Thanks for playing, Penny! Wild About You is just a treat:>)
Such a fun little “contest”! Can’t wait to see Wild About You in person. How lucky am I? Though I do think Penny’s idea about the elephant sounds most clever. I ended up doing a little brainstorming and thought of one of my students’ favorite poems: “Frog” (of all things, ha ha) by Mary Ann Hoberman. Reminds me of both you, Laura, and Penny’s word play poetry. It is educational (frog facts and their life cycle), fun and a tongue-twister. I teach it early in the year to show the power of poetry at their level (3rd grade generally) and then move them on from there. By year’s end they also enthusiastically tackle more challenging poems with ease.
THANK YOU, Laura.
Oh, that’s a terrific Hoberman poem. I have it in The Tree That Time Built–a fabulous anthology! Your students are so lucky, Janet!
Such a fun little “contest”! Can’t wait to see Wild About You in person. How lucky am I? Though I do think Penny’s idea about the elephant sounds most clever. I ended up doing a little brainstorming and thought of one of my students’ favorite poems: “Frog” (of all things, ha ha) by Mary Ann Hoberman. Reminds me of both you, Laura, and Penny’s word play poetry. It is educational (frog facts and their life cycle), fun and a tongue-twister. I teach it early in the year to show the power of poetry at their level (3rd grade generally) and then move them on from there. By year’s end they also enthusiastically tackle more challenging poems with ease.
THANK YOU, Laura.
Oh, that’s a terrific Hoberman poem. I have it in The Tree That Time Built–a fabulous anthology! Your students are so lucky, Janet!
I must have missed that post, what a fun competition! Congrats Janet. What a cute pb too š
Well, the post was about book covers, and I just kind of slipped the contest in there as an afterthought. Not very wise on my part:>)
I must have missed that post, what a fun competition! Congrats Janet. What a cute pb too š
Well, the post was about book covers, and I just kind of slipped the contest in there as an afterthought. Not very wise on my part:>)
This book sounds great! Thanks for sharing, Laura.
And congrats to Janet for guessing correctly.
This book sounds great! Thanks for sharing, Laura.
And congrats to Janet for guessing correctly.