Summary: This story is about a family learning who is learning about the world by visiting different places.
Summary of Professional Reviews: The Horn Book Guide gives this book a rating of 1. The review explained that this story was written using child friendly rhyming words and the illustrations are done in a way that really help narrate the story. According to the Horn Book, "the West Coast seaside setting showcases not only Frazee's affectionate mix of people but also her familiar skyscapes, glowing with color and shaded with horizontal lines". According to Kirkus, the rhyming in this story "zooms outward from smallest to biggest", and in a sense the illustrations do the same. They show the objects that the author is saying from a close up and then it shows the bigger picture.
Review by Ivette Thompson: In this book a family visits different places around their community. The author uses rhyming to describe and explain the things that they find at each of the places that they visited. I really enjoyed reading this book. I appreciate the rhyming that is in this book because the author does it in a way that seems that she is putting things into a category. She says " rock, stone, pebble sand" "body, shoulder, arm and hand" . The first set of words are the things that they found at the beach, and the other set of words are the body parts that they used while searching for the pebbles and stones. The illustrations in this story are very detailed and go along with the story to help younger readers. The illustrations are done in a way that first shows a zoomed in picture of where they are, and then it zooms out showing a bigger picture.
This book would be useful when teaching... Teachers can use this book to help students learn about rhyming words. The rhyming words also seems to be in categories so teachers can use this book to help young students learn what a category is and how we make categories.
Summary of Professional Reviews: The Horn Book Guide gives this book a rating of 1. The review explained that this story was written using child friendly rhyming words and the illustrations are done in a way that really help narrate the story. According to the Horn Book, "the West Coast seaside setting showcases not only Frazee's affectionate mix of people but also her familiar skyscapes, glowing with color and shaded with horizontal lines". According to Kirkus, the rhyming in this story "zooms outward from smallest to biggest", and in a sense the illustrations do the same. They show the objects that the author is saying from a close up and then it shows the bigger picture.
Review by Ivette Thompson: In this book a family visits different places around their community. The author uses rhyming to describe and explain the things that they find at each of the places that they visited. I really enjoyed reading this book. I appreciate the rhyming that is in this book because the author does it in a way that seems that she is putting things into a category. She says " rock, stone, pebble sand" "body, shoulder, arm and hand" . The first set of words are the things that they found at the beach, and the other set of words are the body parts that they used while searching for the pebbles and stones. The illustrations in this story are very detailed and go along with the story to help younger readers. The illustrations are done in a way that first shows a zoomed in picture of where they are, and then it zooms out showing a bigger picture.
This book would be useful when teaching... Teachers can use this book to help students learn about rhyming words. The rhyming words also seems to be in categories so teachers can use this book to help young students learn what a category is and how we make categories.